After the first few weeks of the Wednesday classic track showcasing a fair bit of rock, this week it's a complete change of tack. Pure POP. Girls Aloud have always been pop in every sense of the word. Accessible, chorus' dripping from the walls, and popular beyond belief, but they've always been a little underrated for the risks they took musically.
Biology, from 2005 album 'Chemistry', is on first listen just another three and a minute chart botherer by well known songwriting team Xenomania. It's when you notice the chorus doesn't hit until two minutes into the track it's actually a little different. The song is broken down into very different, seperate sections of between thirty seconds and a minute, rather than relying on the same regular hook. There's not just one change in tempo but three, between the opening section; a stomping show tune, based on an Animals riff and the songs main bulk, then back again. The only reason what I call the chorus the chorus because it comes back at the end. Every section here could've been individually spun out into a full excellent pop tune. It slow burns, it rewards the listener, and it's the closest pop will ever get to prog.
Post-split, some members of the band have gone on to release highly underrated solo work. Everyone may be raving about the live comeback of Kate Bush right now, but they've ignored the unlikely natural successor sat under their noses. Nicola Robert's 'Cinderella's Eyes' released in 2011 shouldn't just end this decade remembered as one of the best pop albums of the teens, but the best albums period. With plenty of time now passed from Girls Aloud's commercial peak, it's time they had a good critical reappraisal.
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