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Monday, September 28 2009, 06:18 BST
By David Balls, Music Reporter
With Sugababes imploding from within and Girls Aloud on hiatus, could there be a better time for The Saturdays to establish themselves as Britain’s biggest girlband? Their debut album went platinum after spinning off five chart hits and now – fresh from putting the finishing touches to the follow-up Wordshaker – they’re back with new single ‘Forever Is Over’. We caught up with Rochelle Wiseman to discuss the new record and the ever-changing girlband landscape.
Your new single ‘Forever Is Over’ shows a rockier edge to The Saturdays. Is that the direction you’re going in now?
“I think we’re lucky because as a pop group we can try lots of different sounds and don’t have to stick to the same thing. The single’s got a full-on pop-rock sound and I think it shows off our voices really well. It’s similar to the album in that it’s got a bigger sound production-wise, but not all the songs are as rocky like that.”
Why did you decide to call your album Wordshaker?
“We wanted something that was a bit more grown-up because it’s our second album. We thought about calling it Deeper but that sounded a little bit cringe and cliched. We wanted something unique, so that when you Google it only our album will come up. A ‘wordshaker’ is someone who twists the truth by saying one thing and doing another. It’s someone who’s a bit of a sneak and uses reverse psychology. We’re making it a trending topic on Twitter.”
There were rumours going round that it was called Colonial Masses.
“I know, it’s hilarious! We were doing interviews all of last week and everybody kept referring to it under that name. We were like, ‘What the hell?’ Don’t believe anything that you read on Wikipedia – anyone can edit it!”
Do you think the new sound will stop comparisons to Girls Aloud?
“I think they came to the end quite a while ago. After we released a couple of singles everyone realised that we had our own sound. Obviously at the start people made comparisons because there were five of us, but that was just an initial thing. We still bump into them at the label and they’re such nice girls.”
So you’re not plotting to take over while they’re on hiatus?
“There was a report in the newspaper that was totally twisted about us trying to take over from them. They asked us about Girls Aloud having a year out and asked if we were ready to be the next girlband. We were like, ‘We’re up for it’. But then the next thing was ‘The Saturdays get nasty’ and we were apparently slagging them off. That’s not our style though. We don’t do things like that. The girls know it’s not true too.”
How did you feel when you heard Keisha had been kicked out of Sugababes?
“I was really shocked. I kind of feel that it’s a bit unfair to keep using the Sugababes name if she’s not in it. She was the only original member left even though Heidi has been there a long time. You never know what goes on behind the scenes and I don’t think we’ll ever really get the truth, just what the newspapers say. The new line-up is hot though. I saw a picture of them and it looks like it’s going to be a good video.”
Do you think they’ll still be around in a year from now?
“Maybe, but they’ll probably have three different members!”
Have you noticed that the beginning of ‘Wordshaker’ sounds a bit like ‘Get Sexy’?
“What bit? Oh, the sirens? I hadn’t noticed that, but I guess it does a little bit. That’s going to be stuck in my head now every time I hear it!”
Has there ever been any in-fighting in The Saturdays?
“We’re actually so lucky because we all get on really well. It’s quite weird when you hear about the stuff that goes on in other groups. It must be horrible being in a band with someone you don’t get on with because you’re with each other all the time doing this job.”
You seem never to have any time off.
“I know! We’ve hardly had any time off since we started but we got a week off in the summer and I took my mum to St. Lucia. It was really weird because we got papped and it was in the paper. It really freaked me out because you don’t know where they’re hiding! I felt a bit sorry for my mum.”
Earlier this year you said you wanted to break the US. Is that still on the agenda?
“Absolutely! It’s always been a dream of ours, but we don’t want to leave the UK before we’ve got it nailed here. We want to make sure we’ve done enough here to be properly established before we swan off.”
Will there be another Saturdays single before Christmas?
“Yeah, why not! Watch this space!”
Do you know which song it’s going to be yet?
“We have decided on one, but I can’t tell you yet.”
‘Wordshaker’ and ‘One Shot’ went down well on tour. Could it be one of those?
“Well, maybe not for the next one. I’m not sure… I don’t think it will be one of those two, so there’s a hint! Stop it you with the probing, cheeky!”
Were you surprised when ‘Work’ only reached number 22?
“What happened was that we were meant to release it a lot earlier but then the Comic Relief opportunity came through. We’d already started promoting ‘Work’ so everyone had already started downloading it. Sales-wise it still did well and it tied in nicely with our ‘Work’ tour, but it wasn’t the ideal chart position.”
Do you think you’ll get your first number one from the new album?
“Do you know what, I think we deserve it now! There’s all that stuff about being modest but it’s every band’s dream to get to number one! It’s so nice to be in the top ten, even better to be in the top five, but getting to the top would really seal the deal. We’ve done so well this far, so it would be the icing on the cake and top off what has been a really amazing year.”
The Saturdays release new single ‘Forever Is Over’ on October 5. Their album Wordshaker follows on October 12.
Source: Digitalspy
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Let’s jump right in. Wordshaker is better than Chasing Lights, but that was hardly going to be a hard feat to achieve. Well done to Mollie who wins the award for most improved vocals, we actually want to listen to her now unlike her appalling ‘uhh yeh’ adlibs in If This Is Love and ‘whoa-oy-oy’ intro from Work. Frankie shouldn’t have bothered to turn up to studio, that’s how bad she sounds here. Rochelle could have spent a bit less time in studio. Not sure where Una and Vanessa were because they’re not really anywhere. Watch it girls, we don’t want Royonce.
And there we have it. Basically the girls should have taken the best 6 tracks and released it now as an EP and then come back with an album next year. There is no growth here and we can’t help but fear they’ll suffer a sophomore slump.
Wordshaker is out on 12th October through Fascination/Geffen.
Source: Turn Up The Pop
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Source: Teen Today
OK, I’m going to break this to you gently… there are no tracks on Wordshaker that are as good as “Up”. But it’s not all bad news. Because there are about 10 tracks on Wordshaker that are literally very nearly almost as good as “Up” whilst sounding nothing like it. And that’s about 10 more than were on Chasing Lights. Huzzah.
We’ve been wanting The Saturdays to be amazing for about as long as we knew they existed. Personality-wise, they might not be setting us on fire yet but Wordshaker (despite sounding like a prototype name for the game Boggle) is a very fine sophomore album indeed. Why “Forever Is Over“, a stab at pop-rock so soft it’s practically a cuddly toy, was chosen as the lead single when it’s probably the weakest track remains a mystery – so if you actually quite like “Forever Is Over”, imagine how happy you’ll be to discover that every one of the eleven other tracks is substantially better than it. Huzzah again.
The overall sound of the album might not have shifted seismically from Chasing Lights – basically the many many ballads have gone up a gear to become midtempo instead – but thankfully the overdose on schmaltz is long gone and Wordshaker’s big ballad moment, “Here Standing”, is properly gorgeous. In our review of Chasing Lights, we implored the girls to unleash their fierce side more often and on the likes of “Ego”, “One Shot” and “Open Up”, boy do they deliver – pop choons with the perfect sprinkling of rocky rhythms and electro twiddles on top, lyrics that require voices set to ‘belt’ rather than ‘simper’ and Vanessa’s powerhouse vocals to see them soaring through.
Elsewhere Wordshaker is revealed not as an educational game but a liar who twists words and the resulting song is the album’s feisty fantastic highlight whilst “Lose Control”, an explosion of ‘oooo-ooooohs’, “talky bits” and electro-esque squelching, is my personal favourite. When the saccharine finally rears its head on the closer 2am (alas, not a prequel to Busted’s still epic 3am), it’s actually welcome; simply lovely, it’s Wordshaker’s “Why Me, Why Now” and you can’t help falling in love with it. Well, I couldn’t anyway.
Some tracks (“Denial”, “Not Good Enough”) sound a little generic in that they seem instantly familiar – but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, just a sign that they have been crafted well enough to get stuck in your head almost immediately. As the Sugababes implode, this is the kind of album we could imagine a diluted Sugababes v2.0 recording, except that comparison really does Wordshaker no justice whatsoever. Come the second album, The Saturdays have found their own sound and guess what? It’s great. Heaven knows how good album three might be. What I do know is that Wordshaker is probably the pop album of the year.
BTW this is a matter almost as important as how good the album is. Frankie has short hair again. YES!
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You know what – I haven’t really written much about The Saturdays here on EQ. I’ve always had an appreciation for the their radio friendly electro-tinged hits (my absolute favorite being “Up”), but like Girls Aloud – they are everywhere it seems – and EQ tends to write about up-and-coming artists – and The Saturdays, well they most certainly have already arrived now haven’t they.
I did ponder if I should do the interview or not, but I thought it would be a real hoot to talk to Frankie about current girl pop and get the scoop on their upcoming album “Wordshaker” which is coming out in October. I’m glad I did the interview though – I liked their first album and Frankie is a lovely girl. It’s always a pleasure to speak to someone whose had some success in the industry and to get their perspective on the current music scene.
So what happened when EQ met Frankie from The Saturdays – read on and enjoy…
EQ: Well hello Frankie…how are you today?
Frankie: I’m good thank you!
So I must ask, how are you holding up with all this commotion about Keisha being kicked out of the Sugababes? Is it a sad day for girlband pop?
Um, I don’t know really. It’s kinda fair enough I guess. Keisha has been in Sugababes for like 11 years or something like that. Now that she’s left, all the original members now are gone. So it’s like, “Are they Sugababes anymore?”. I don’t know – it’s just weird…
So I’ve been dying to ask you actually, how do The Saturdays coordinate their multi-coloured outfits ie: your dresses, tights, umbrellas etc. Do you get into arguments like “I want to be blue, no I want to be blue” or is there some complex sort of system that you use to pick out your colours for the music videos and artwork…
No – the first time we did it – it just ended up being that way. We didn’t chose colours or anything – it was just what colours our dresses were. Now it’s kinda whoever wants to wear what really. I try to wear red as much as I can and the same with the other girls. But we don’t keep the same colour, we kinda mix it around.
So tell me about your new single – “Forever Is Over”. It’s a bit of an angsty one isn’t it?…
Yeah – it was written by James Bourne. He’s written so many hits so it was cool to work with him. It’s a breakup song. It’s a “go-off I’m leaving and I don’t care – see you later” type of song. Not really a tearjerker at all – it’s more of an empowering song I think. It’s got such a good chorus, it’s catchy and it’s just a big song. We love it – it’s awesome. When we heard it, we said “we have to have it”.
Source: Electroqueer
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