If you are a red blooded woman, you have probably noticed that you have been popping up all over the web recently with the onslaught of your perfectly lovely pop-thrill-tastic electro tinged songs of goodness. You probably read about yourself on girl band loving DontStopThePop, Pop of the Justice (their forum contributors are sometimes so fucking vile) and even press release lover Arjan Writes... However, if you are not a red blooded woman and this media excitement has passed you by, you can catch up by reading my first post on them here, see them all wise and man like in my 2007 Christmas card and of course I'm sure that DSTP featured them earlier too but I can't find a post...
Anyway, I finally got a chance to digest their newer tunes properly today and boy were they tasty. I was driving up to Preston (the place not the Ordinary Boy) and was in a dance flavoured pop mood, so exhausted the latest singles by Girls Aloud and Sugababes and popped on new tracks by Red Blooded Women. First up was i-will-be-so-mad-if-this-ain't-the-first-single Colour Me Dirty - which features a rather brilliant sample of Yazoo Don't Go. The sample doesn't make the song, the girls do that fine on their own, but it certainly makes it a catchy tune that stands up alongside other sample heavy hits like Beware Of The Dog and SOS for sheer glee and popposity. Their voices blend seamlessly together like a finely tuned instrument that complements the swirling bassline and plinking instrumentation. All in all it's a song that is drenched in pop goodness and deserves a much wider audience - if only because i am dying to see a perfectly choreographed dance routine by a selection of fine male backing dancers. (Note to RBW - I will be happy to audition the blokes for you to save time)! Also available for listening is the marvelous Synthesizer - that mixes early Madonna (think Borderline and Lucky Star) with pre mental Britney (think Toxic and Overprotected), adds a smidge of all things 80s, sautees it with some throbbing Prince bass and synths and then glazes the whole thing off with a fiery addictive chorus that will have you saying no to rehab as no one would want to be cured of this fine habit. And therein the girls have the kahonas to have two excellent first singles and launch the best new girl group since the Sugas and Alouders first popped on their slutty silk knickers. Super dooper....
And as I was in a dancey driving mood, here is what finished off my dance-pop soundtrack:
- Jesse McCartney ~ Leaving (Bimbo Jones radio mix) (Dreadful - strips the song of its faux reggae Ace of Base/Shayne Ward charm...)
- BWO ~ Lay Your Love On Me (Soundfactory radio edit) (just what you'd expect - as perfectly aligned with BWO as sleazesisters were with Steps)
- Mariah Carey ~ Touch My Body (Craig C radio mix) (is it very wrong that I am loving this song more and more each day)
- Belle Lawrence ~ I Thought It Was Over (Almighty mix) (ups the disco ante of the original song by The Feeling to the nth degree)
Anyway, I finally got a chance to digest their newer tunes properly today and boy were they tasty. I was driving up to Preston (the place not the Ordinary Boy) and was in a dance flavoured pop mood, so exhausted the latest singles by Girls Aloud and Sugababes and popped on new tracks by Red Blooded Women. First up was i-will-be-so-mad-if-this-ain't-the-first-single Colour Me Dirty - which features a rather brilliant sample of Yazoo Don't Go. The sample doesn't make the song, the girls do that fine on their own, but it certainly makes it a catchy tune that stands up alongside other sample heavy hits like Beware Of The Dog and SOS for sheer glee and popposity. Their voices blend seamlessly together like a finely tuned instrument that complements the swirling bassline and plinking instrumentation. All in all it's a song that is drenched in pop goodness and deserves a much wider audience - if only because i am dying to see a perfectly choreographed dance routine by a selection of fine male backing dancers. (Note to RBW - I will be happy to audition the blokes for you to save time)! Also available for listening is the marvelous Synthesizer - that mixes early Madonna (think Borderline and Lucky Star) with pre mental Britney (think Toxic and Overprotected), adds a smidge of all things 80s, sautees it with some throbbing Prince bass and synths and then glazes the whole thing off with a fiery addictive chorus that will have you saying no to rehab as no one would want to be cured of this fine habit. And therein the girls have the kahonas to have two excellent first singles and launch the best new girl group since the Sugas and Alouders first popped on their slutty silk knickers. Super dooper....
