Girls Aloud have split up..

"The thought of being in the same profession as that fookin' nutter was just too much for me to take," quipped Tweedy, 28, at a press conference this morning.

in with a bullet at #26 this week. hmm.

what a fucking day.

not sure where else this is being discussed on ilm but her new single is pretty forgettable. didnt really feel it was a love worth fighting for. ;)

though saying that, the chorus is now going round in my head. i just wish it wasnt.

Cheryl performed it live on X FActor last night, but I can't remember what it sounds like.

She sang it in a mostly mid-atlantic accent with occasional geordie lilt.

why arent xenomania working with her anymore?

I'm pretty sure they did some songs for her... my guess is they probably didn't fit the overall vibe of the album and they were left out. BTW The only problem with Cheryl's song is Cheryl. The backing track is excellent IMO... ok the lyrics are awful as well.

the song is a grower, it's totally unimpressive but it's nice. i've heard clips of her album and if you didn't love this chances are nothing on the album will really strike you.

the backing track is decent, but theres no hooks that grab you. and the lyrics are quite banal. which im guessing is exactly what cheryl wanted, but theres a reason she didnt used to get what she wanted.

..the reason being this dude telling her to stfu and let him do his job?
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Sa9SPINujks/SOSDlmt7QkI/AAAAAAAAASc/R7SfnSZscmk/s400/higgins.jpg

Cheryl Cole's first solo single is on course to become the year's biggest-selling single, the Official Charts Company says.

! still can't be bothered to listen

it doesnt deserve to do that well.

thing is i understand the basic appeal of cheryl cole, but i don't get why anyone would be...fanatically adoring of her and supportive of everything she does, including this NOTHING single. it barely exists.

whaaaaaaaaaaat. i thought alex burke would outsell her even on week 2.

i don't even know why i pay attention to the charts, they only frustrate me.

It's a bit sad that this bland-o track outsells 90% of the group's catalogue, but it's not surprising. Them selling so well with many of their singles have been a sort of 'against-nature' mystery, a happy one, of course, but their sound has never sounded chart storming (outside of the crap covers). This track fits with the pleasant, boring, half-rnb lull that some uk rappers have turned to with great #1 success lately.

I was listening to the radio (hits radio) the other day and I was shocked by how many things sounded exactly like this. Is it me, or is chart pop going through a very safe/predictable phase again? :(

To a certain degree. All the tinchy stryder-ish bland pop soundalikes being automatic number ones is a bit disturbing.

I dunno, I thought it was alright...

for me what's especially mind-numbing isn't so much the single being derivative of current popular musical trends as it is that derivativeness so inanely cannibalising militaristic lyrical wheezes too - jordin's 'battlefield', amerie's in love & war, and so on. perhaps generally speaking it was ever thus and some sort of inevitable finicky pensioner ennui has made it all strike me as so stupefyingly blatant though, i dunno.

listening to the album now and cole really is an astonishingly flat and pointless vocalist - as much of a disconnect between her and the material as there is with her not-particularly-pleasant-person-ness and the people's princess status she's been afforded so blithely. pairing that up - as happens on this album four bloody times - with will i am and his sometimes banal, sometimes lackadaisaical general sense of ambivalence is truly one of the least inviting combinations ever.

what makes her the ppls princess again? i cant remember. apart from the fact 'shes fit' etc.

Generous but thoughtful review from Tom Ewing, stepping into the Petridis hotseat: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/oct/22/cheryl-cole-3-words-review

3 Words at first sounds like a throwback to the 90s, when acts like Louise Redknapp would put us to sleep with their unshakeably nice R&B lite.

Cheryl needs to make her own '2 Faced'.

she really doesn't.

what a divisive artiste

see, i'm not saying invoking the ashley affair comes across as glib exactly but to me at least the issue seems a good deal vaguer and more diluted now than it did a year or so ago, when 'heartbreaker' was first doing the rounds and its whole general insinuation was fresher in the mind; basically i don't know quite how true it rings any longer, and i'd want to be extremely careful about it because it's an extremely attractive vector into the album and once leant on even slightly you find the the whole thing suddenly becoming suspiciously easy to explain.

on the other hand it may be that i am a careless, bovine sort of fellow and the healing, chilly detachment of adultery remains forever latent in both the woman scorned and her empathising vultures nation of concerned observers, yada yada.

once wronged, forever wronged in gossip mag vulture land, i guess. cf the still-lonely jennifer aniston, 5 or is it 6 years after her divorce?

did anyone have the slightest inkling of what cheryl's singing voice was like before she went solo? we're talking about someone who comes in some way below rachel stevens in terms of charisma and oomph.

wait, run the aniston ref by me again? if it's how i think you mean then i think i'm still agreeing with the gossmags about her, haha.

tbh with cheryl i never really liked her enough to partic feel for her when she got the rug pulled out from under, so perhaps i'm not best placed to assess how her rehabilitation might resonate. whyyy do people see this girl next door superfriend in her though? it seems so plain to me she has a nasty edge.

Cmon.. the album is shit and suddenly people are excited, bloodthirsty vultures. She seems like a normal, pleasant girl to me. Not 'nation's sweetheart' but are anyone? Did she go for the title of the nation's princess? She accepted a tv offer and things escalated. Why people deride tabloids and and then go gossiping about how vile a person some, for all we know, perfectly innocent, perfectly decent person, is -- it's beyond me. Quite distasteful.

um

btw i have just been met with this after complaining about ripoffs yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZjhwL59vk

LOL ;_;

Wow they even kept half of the original song title!