February 16th, 2009 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: 2009, Comic Relief, The Saturdays
Scoring the Comic Relief single this year is a major coup for The Saturdays. Their choice of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough particularly inspired, reminiscent of when Girls Aloud recycled Jump for the Love Actually soundtrack.
The Sun lauded this for being the sexiest video yet for The Saturdays, but as a red-blooded expert on all things sexy, I disagree. It’s about as sexy as Christina Aguilera back in that Lady Marmalade video – i.e. not at all. Gawd, give me Dawn French dressed up as Mel B any day!
Read more & comment »
January 29th, 2009 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: Comic Relief, The Saturdays
Oooh – as I just read on PopJustice, girlband du jour The Saturdays are going to be releasing the Comic Relief single this year.
It’s going to be a cover of Depeche Mode’s Just Can’t Get Enough, which will fit in well with the 80’s revival and synth-heaviness of the contemporary charts. The PJ crew confidently predict this will be the group’s first ever #1 single, which will be an act of charity in more ways that one.
Read more & comment »
March 21st, 2007 by Gerard McGarry. Tags: 2007, Aerosmith, Comic Relief, Crap, Girls Aloud, Sugababes
The prospect of pure pop Girls Aloud ‘versus’ the more urban Sugababes was quite exciting in an eye candy alert kind of way. But the choice of Aerosmith and Run DMCs Walk This Way was ultimate sacrilige.
On their own, Girls Aloud and Sugababes are class acts and have both managed to pull off fantastic cover versions in the past.
Read more & comment »
