They're the closest thing we've got to popstars and they do have some cracking songs. Even if you don't like them, they're good to read about in interviews.
Originally posted by 4Music Ed: why on earth are they still so popular?
If this is your view, why give them the oxygen of publicity?
Never said it was my opinion, just thought the members of this board might have a few opinions on Girls Aloud. It is pretty remarkable that band from a reality TV show are still going and still going so strong...
Personally, I love them. They've been amazingly managed and there is just something about the five of them that works as a band and connects with people.
Aww, come on, writing "Thing is though, why on earth are they still so popular?" and claiming this isn't a negatively-slanted question comes over as a tad disingenuous. If you were slagging them off, I've have to agree with you.
These hollow-eyed, vacant nobodies who don't step out of doors until they've been styled to within an inch of their lives, represent a huge success for the idea of pop-as-committee.
It's difficult to think of the last girlband who wrote their own songs and made their own decisions. At least with Bananarama (a previous holder of the title) you had the sense there were real people behind the dungarees.
I have a nasty feeling that Girls Aloud may just be enlarged Bratz dolls operated via remote control. They're not love machines - they're just machines.
But why on earth were the Spice Girls ever popular, thats what I want to know.
What are you talking about? the Spice girls were great and at least they wrote their own songs unlike Girls Aloud who are like puppets. They do, say and sing what they are told by their record company. They don't have a brain cell between them. I saw an interview with them and that Blond one said she left school at 15! Yeah thats a great message to send to little kids
Haha it reminds me of an interview I saw with Steps a while ago... they were asked if any of them played a musical instrument, there was a blank look and then one of them suddenly remembered they played the recorder at school; at this point they all perked up as if they were now able to think of themselves as a group musicians! It just goes to show the amount of musical input they had in the studio, if the only instance of using a musical instrument between the five of them was that one of them had played the recorder in a school assembly or something!
Not really my thing. Besides, and I am not being sexist here, I don't like any female artists the music they sing never appeled to me. I am more of a Iron Maiden and Korn kind of guy.
Like a fat a guy at an all you can eat buffet life got in my way.
Originally posted by Cloud Strife: Not really my thing. Besides, and I am not being sexist here, I don't like any female artists the music they sing never appeled to me. I am more of a Iron Maiden and Korn kind of guy.
Ever tried listening to Heart? Might be your cuppa tea.
Ok yes the biggest appeal is that they are all pretty and sexy. But they can all sing and do sing live plus they have very catchy tunes under their belt, even my mum who can't stand pop music thinks they are ok.
Thanks for that guys. By the way fizzwizzle you are kind of right some guys do like female singers, but some bands just would not have been the same if they had been fronted by women. I mean look at Nirvana, grunge needs a gravly voice like Kurt Cobains.
Like a fat a guy at an all you can eat buffet life got in my way.
