» Girls Aloud
Can someone please explain why Girls Aloud are treated by the serious music press as the manufactured group it’s ok to like? From tonight’s display, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Though admittedly some of their tunes are decent enough pop (recent single ‘Call The Shots’ most notably), too much is just dull, low-rent dross. The girls can’t really sing and they can’t really dance. They’re paid to pout a bit and sell underwear, which they do kind of well. There’s little fun for anyone who genuinely likes music here. As one Latest 7 reader recently wrote, it’s like burlesque for kids, though they forgot to add ‘minus any talent’.
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Nick Aldwinckle
Brighton Centre, Tuesday 13 May
June 18th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
To say they cant sing is one thing…considering your obvious qualifications to judge this. But to say they cant dance shows you really know nothing about them. Each of them possess their own talent which youd know if you looked passed their manufactured reputation. Rock/alternative fan are you?
They represent achieving your dreams no matter where you come from, if thats not a good message to kids i don’t know what is.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am
And since when was gyrating in a corset and stockings sending a good message to kids?!!! What kind of dream does that represent? It was undeniably a great show (and thats coming from someone who does ‘genuinely like music’) but there were times when I felt like covering my boyfriends eyes… if I’d had children with me I’d have been dragging them out of there well before the first number was up.