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Girls
British-Irish girl group
Girls Aloud are a British-Irish pop girl group formed through the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. The group's original line-up comprised Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh.
They achieved immediate success with their debut single, "Sound of the Underground", which became the 2002 UK Christmas number one. Girls Aloud subsequently became one of the most commercially successful British girl group of the 21st century, achieving twenty consecutive top ten singles on the UK singles chart, including four number ones, and two number one albums.
members: Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh
formed in: London
labels: Polydor Records, Fascination Records
genres: electropop, dance-pop, pop music
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Musical style
Girls Aloud worked closely with Brian Higgins and his songwriting and production team Xenomania throughout their career. Xenomania produced all of Girls Aloud's albums and singles, excluding nine songs from their debut album, Sound of the Underground, the charity single "Walk This Way" and two songs from Ten. Of Higgins and Xenomania, Girls Aloud's former manager Louis Walsh says, "He just makes great songs for radio. They just jump out at you and stay in your brain." In a review of the group's debut single "Sound of the Underground", The Guardian's Alexis Petridis exclaimed it "proved a first: it was a reality pop record that didn't make you want to do physical harm to everyone involved in its manufacture." In response to Girls Aloud's...
Girls Aloud's legacy has often been discussed in relation to their collaboration with the songwriting and production team Xenomania. The group's debut single, "Sound of the Underground", and Sugababes' "Round Round", both produced by Xenomania, have been called "two huge groundbreaking hits" that helped redefine British pop in the early 2000s. Emily MacKay of NME characterised the songs as representing "a whole new kind of pop". "Sound of the Underground" has since appeared on several retrospective lists of defining songs of the decade: The Telegraph ranked it 15th on its list of 100 songs that defined the 2000s, NME placed it at number 39, and Spinner.com named it the eighth-best British song of the decade.
Girls Aloud are a British girl group formed in 2002 through the ITV1 reality television programme Popstars: The Rivals. The original lineup consisted of Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh. The group was created as part of a televised competition to form a new girl group, with Girls Aloud ultimately winning the public vote against the competing male group One True Voice.
Girls Aloud made their recording debut with Sound of the Underground, released in December 2002. The single reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and established the group as one of the most successful British pop acts of the 2000s. Their music became particularly associated with the production and songwriting team Xenomania, whose work helped shape the group's distinctive sound through unconventional song structures, electronic production, layered vocals, and influences from dance-pop, synth-pop, rock, and alternative pop.
Between 2002 and 2009, Girls Aloud achieved four UK number-one singles and 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles. Their studio albums Sound of the Underground, What Will the Neighbours Say?, Chemistry, Tangled Up
Also known as: Girl Aloud, 嗆女生合唱團
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Liner notes
Girls, the records, oldest first
Sound of the Underground
2003 album
What Will the Neighbours Say?
2004 album
Girls Aloud: Polydor Sampler
2004 ep
Girls Aloud: Polydor Performance Masters Sampler
2004 ep
Chemistry
2005 album
Tangled Up
2007 album
Out of Control
2008 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
