General Girls Aloud Discussion

[SunshineConcubine]

That's the best Sarah's looked in years! I hope she doesn't chop all her hair off for the reunion. She's got such a pretty face but no one could pull off the peroxide Spock 'do she had going on a few years back.

[JadeFan]

If Nicola is blonde....

[Mushroom3]

I've fallen ridiculously in love with 'Wake Me Up' again tonight.

[superglowy]

I've fallen ridiculously in love with 'Wake Me Up' again tonight.

'Wake Me Up' is one of the greatest things Girls Aloud have put their name too. I always imagine if i had been a popstar, that would have been my first single!

[DirrtyBrain]

LMAO I agree, WMU is very underrated. I hate Nicolas live adlib of it though - I get she's trying to take as risk and change it up a bit but it just sounds awful. I have a love/hate relationship with the video too. I love how bad it is, but at the same time I wanted the epic song to have an epic video.

[Denial]

God damn it Nadine get back here!

[WearefromBarcelona]

That pic is photoshopped. There were Kimberley, Nicola and Sarah pics and then Chim pics.

[JadeFan]

Clearly! Someone has done it to show what GA2012 look like.

[clarke]

Kimberley better don the Shrek outfit for the solo part section of the Girls Aloud reunion tour! The crowd will go wild for that one song about cooking breakfast and birds singing!

[NoSignOfLife]

See The Day (Part 2) MUST happen.

[bryan89]

Clearly! Someone has done it to show what GA2012 look like.

and they look stunning don't they?

[Seanie]

See The Day (Part 2) MUST happen.

No it shouldn't.

Part one should never have happened.

[RhythmNative]

These pictures have got me properly excited...

I'll always prefer Sarah looking like Twiggy with the slicked down short hair a la The Promise video - to have cropped hair in a sea of extensions always made her stand out of the crowd - but I get that as she gets older and with the questionable face fillers - a longer softer style is more flattering.

But all in all they look like beautiful, elegant, mature in their later 20s/early 30s. Not one is trying to look like a teenager.

I hope that the music reflects that. I know this will be an unpopular opinion - but I don't want the group of women above to come back with a song that sounds like Something Kinda Oooh, or something The Saturdays could be doing with Xenomania. The time has passed. The music should be an evolution of where they were on Out Of Control - not a look backwards.

If this reunion is done right, the best they can expect is akin to the Take That comeback of a couple of years ago - and that requires an acceptance from fans that a grown up group are more convincing when singing grown up songs regardless of gender. Hence why Take That didn't return with a song that sounded like 'It Only Takes A Minute'.

And that doesn't mean 'slow' songs. It just means songs more like The Proimise and Call The Shots than Something Kinda Oooh and Sexy! No No No.

[GhettoPrincess]

Sarah has been looking absolutely stunning lately.

She really has, hope she keeps that hairstyle. No more short hair please.

[Seanie]

Sarah's tits look massive in that dress, has she had work done?

[bichard]

These pictures have got me properly excited...
If this reunion is done right, the best they can expect is akin to the Take That comeback of a couple of years ago - and that requires an acceptance from fans that a grown up group are more convincing when singing grown up songs regardless of gender. Hence why Take That didn't return with a song that sounded like 'It Only Takes A Minute'.

And that doesn't mean 'slow' songs. It just means songs more like The Proimise and Call The Shots than Something Kinda Oooh and Sexy! No No No.

I see no reason why a group of late 20s girls can't do a an uptempo stonker. These songs are not the exclusive domain of the young. It's all about dignity though. I'm thinking more Ray Of Light as opposed to Girl Gone Wild...

[lauc05]

I know this will be an unpopular opinion - but I don't want the group of women above to come back with a song that sounds like Something Kinda Oooh, or something The Saturdays could be doing with Xenomania. The time has passed. The music should be an evolution of where they were on Out Of Control - not a look backwards.

If this reunion is done right, the best they can expect is akin to the Take That comeback of a couple of years ago - and that requires an acceptance from fans that a grown up group are more convincing when singing grown up songs regardless of gender. Hence why Take That didn't return with a song that sounded like 'It Only Takes A Minute'.

And that doesn't mean 'slow' songs. It just means songs more like The Proimise and Call The Shots than Something Kinda Oooh and Sexy! No No No.

I can see where you're coming from here, however I don't think they should cut out the bonkers material from it completely. Yes, I'd love a mix of The Loving Kind/Call the Shots for future material (and possibly the main body of their new album if there is going to be one), but to say no to Sexy! No No No... completely? That's what made Girls Aloud the way they are: crazy music and crazy lyrics. No other girl group would be/has been able to pull that off and be successful from it at the same time.

[ElectricPlatypus]

My first thought was also "woah Sarah's huge tits". My second thought was "Girls Aloud really are coming back squeaaal".

[Adam193]

I don't know why but I get a feeling that all 4 weren't photographed together because someone didn't want a 'GA Reunite without Nadine' story..

[RhythmNative]

I'm not saying no to 'bonkers'. The Promise is melodically and structurally one of the most bonkers songs they've ever done. Rolling Back The Rivers sounds like country meets hula with the vocorder middle-8 thrown in for good measure.

Being 'out there' doesn't have to mean four-to-the-floor-poppers-o-clock. In fact, with the oversaturation of pop-that-sounds-like-dance-music in the Top Ten at the moment; it would be more 'out there' not to be.

But most importantly; I just want to be surprised. When Sexy! No No No came out - it felt absurd that pop music could even sound like this. If they released that song again - the surprise wouldn't be there. So I'm not saying *repeat* The Promise - but in the same way that the best moments on Out Of Control felt like a mixture of the best tracks on the previous album (Call The Shots and Can't Speak French, it would be nice if the new Girls Aloud material is a logical evolution of the stand out tracks on Out of Control.

[lisaj]

I went to Kimberley's last night in Shrek. There was a big buzz already but when Sarah (looking bloody stunning), Nicola then Cheryl appeared in the royal boxes the fans went mad. Such a great atmosphere. Kimberley was fantastic and held it together although she was clearly feeling emotional. At the end Kimberley was in tears and her co-star paid tribute to her. A fantastic night, I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

People's lists in this thread having Kimberley quite low in singing ability will be surprised by how far she's come.

[bichard]

People's lists in this thread having Kimberley quite low in singing ability will be surprised by how far she's come.

I really hope so. I'd love to consider her a better singer than Cheryl.

[popprincess]

Sarah has certainly scrubbed up well, shes looking great!

[claire_louise]

I know this will be an unpopular opinion - but I don't want the group of women above to come back with a song that sounds like Something Kinda Oooh, or something The Saturdays could be doing with Xenomania. The time has passed.

If this reunion is done right, the best they can expect is akin to the Take That comeback of a couple of years ago - and that requires an acceptance from fans that a grown up group are more convincing when singing grown up songs regardless of gender.

I think the music has to evolve, obviously, but I don't think it has anything to do with their age. Take That had ten years away, not three. You're talking as if the girls are in their 40s or something - the majority of them are only in their mid twenties! Look at the likes of Britney, Beyonce, Nicole Sherzinger etc - all women in their 30s singing 'sexy', poppers-o'clock music and doing it brilliantly. The bonkers-ness must stay.

[Kirkland]

They all look great. Nadine, sadly, looks invisible.