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The Saturdays want to ‘rule the world’

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The Saturdays say they could never compete with Girls Aloud as they weren’t “given millions of fans” overnight.

The girl band have been around for three years, and are tired of being compared to Girls Aloud. Both groups are known for producing catchy pop records, but The Saturdays insist that is where the similarity ends.

Girls Aloud – comprising Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh – were formed on a UK talent programme, whereas The Saturdays were not.

“We can’t compete with Girls Aloud. How can we?” asked Rochelle Wiseman. “Although we’re on our eighth single we haven’t had millions of fans given to us overnight, we’ve had to work for it.”

Una Healy agreed: “We didn’t arrive on a TV show like Girls Aloud where everybody knew their names before they released a record. We were unknown, so it was harder.”

Girls Aloud are currently taking a break to concentrate on solo projects, and The Saturdays – Rochelle, Una, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford and Vanessa White – admit that has made things easier for them. They know more girl groups will come out in the future, but they hope it won’t be for some time yet.

“We want to rule the world, we don’t need anyone else,” laughed Frankie.

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Don’t call me a Spice Girl — I’m one of The Saturdays

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Una Healy wants to scream. “The worst thing about being in a pop band are the paparazzi,” fumes The Saturdays singer. “I was on holidays and they were in the bloody bushes. I had no idea. I was out there having a normal holiday and the next thing I’m all over the papers.”We’ve caught Healy at an awkward moment. Some unflattering paparazzi shots of the Thurles brunette have just hit the web.

Snapped on her way home from a London club the 28-year-old looks as if she’s swallowed a jellied eel: her cheeks are puce and puffy, her eyes appear to be pointing in opposing directions.

Adding to the insult, a gossip website has managed to misspell ‘Una’.

“Some of the photographers are good,” she says, calming down a bit. “They’ll take pictures of you looking good in a nice dress. That’s fine. They’re in your face. You know they are there. It’s the other ones, the nasty ones who hide in bushes.”

In other words, it’s simply another day in the life of an up-and-coming pop star. With Girls Aloud away trying to work out if they still even want to be in a group together, Healy and her Saturdays band-mates have the music universe at their feet.

To capitalise on the sudden absence of any meaningful competition, they’ve rushed out a new mini LP, just six months after their last proper album.

‘We’re a pop band. People can call us manufactured in that we sing other people’s songs. Doesn’t everybody in the pop industry? It’s stating the obvious. I’ve written songs. I’ve won song contests. I don’t need to prove to the world — ‘look at me, I’m a brilliant writer’.”

With a string of top 10 hits under her belt and a Saturdays’ reality television show soon to hit screens, it’s been a long strange journey for Healy.

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Saturdays put Geffen on course

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Universal’s Geffen label is looking to score its second UK number one single within the space of three weeks after The Saturdays opened up a narrow lead on midweek sales.

The girl group’s Fascination/Geffen-issued single Missing You is around 4,000 sales ahead of Flo Rida featuring David Guetta’s Club Can’t Handle Me at this early point in the week, according to OCC Data. The Saturdays’ current highest chart performance is number two, achieved in 2009 by both Just Can’t Get Enough and Forever Is Over.

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Are The Wanted’s Max And The Saturday’s Vanessa White Dating?

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We’ve made no secret of our new man crush on the undeniably hot Max from The Wanted, but we’re not the only wons who have witnessed the fitness…

Vanessa White of The Saturday’s has also noticed that Max is pretty easy on the eye and it has been reported that “love is blossoming” between the pair. Hmph.

According to the Sun, Vanessa and Max grew close after the boys supported The Saturdays on their tour in July.

But it has also been rumoured that Leona Lewis is keen on Max so does Vanessa have competition?!

If you were Max, who would you date? Vanessa or Leona?

Source: Entertainmentwise

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CMU SSQ Interviews The Saturdays

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Right, here come the all important facts, people. Consisting of Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman – formerly of S Club 8 formerly S Club Juniors – along with Mollie King, Una Healy and Vanessa White, The Saturdays released their debut single ‘If This Is Love’ in July 2008. Their debut album ‘Chasing Lights’ duly followed in October, peaking at number nine in the good old music charts, exactly the same position reached by their second album, ‘Wordshaker’, which was released exactly a year later. I reckon there’s some voodoo at play. This week the girl group release new single ‘Missing You’, the opening track from their new mini-album ‘Headlines’, which follows on 16 Aug. Knowing just how many fans The Saturdays have among the CMU faithful, we stalked Vanessa for a whole week until we persuaded her to answer our Same Six Questions.

Q1 How did you start out making music?
When we first got together we were in the studio loads. We had lots and lots of tracks and worked with a writer called Ina Wroldsen, who worked with us for most of the first album. We took it from there really, and just carried on.

Q2 What inspired your latest album?
There are loads of tracks on it that we like, and which we enjoyed writing and recording. We had a bit of a break at the beginning of the year, but wanted to get these songs out in 2010, before we start work on our next full album. So that’s where the idea of a mini-album came from. We haven’t really changed in the direction that we’ve been going down from the very beginning. It’s nothing too different from the albums before it’s just a more updated version I’d say.

Q3 What process do you go through in creating a track?
We all sit in a room together, whether it’s three of us, or two of us, and we sit there and think about what we want to write about. And just chat and feed off each other really.

Q4 Which artists influence your work?
Really cool pop tracks. Acts like us, straight up pop!

Q5 What would you say to someone experiencing your music for the first time?
I’d say it’s fun pop!

Q6 What are your ambitions for your latest album, and for the future?
We want it to do well, obviously. We really like it, so we just hope everyone else does! Obviously, after this, we’ve got the more singles coming out from the album, plus we’ve got a book and a jewellery range, so it’s all going on! We definitely want to do more albums and keep developing our sound and style into the future.

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Digitalspy Review: ”Headlines!”

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“I’m doing nothing / ‘Cause then at least I’m doing nothing wrong.” A lyric which evidently doesn’t describe The Saturdays’ work ethic. Two albums, six top ten singles, their own TV show, book, jewellery line… it’s all go for Una and co. Headlines! arrives just ten months after the group’s second album, Wordshaker, failed to do the business sales-wise, despite peaking at a very respectable number nine on the charts. Abandoning their sophomore set, the ladies have instead opted to release this “mini-album” featuring tracks that they couldn’t bear to hang onto for their next full-length long-player. Was it worth the effort? Hell yes!

Sitting next to Wordshaker singles ‘Ego’ and ‘Forever Is Over’ is the eight-track set’s own trailer track, ‘Missing You’. It’s hard to knock a ballad with a dance routine and, after a few spins, its chorus implants itself in your brain no matter how much you claim to dislike it at first. However, as enjoyable as ‘Missing You’ is, after hearing several of the other newbies here it’s tough not to wonder, ‘Just who chooses this group’s lead singles?’

So, what should have launched Headlines!? Well, that would be the group’s recently confirmed next single. Move over ‘Up’, shift along ‘Ego’, for there’s a new Sats classic in town. The synth-laden ‘Higher’ has become an instant fan fave following recent live performances and, thanks to its infectious chorus and super-sassy lyrics, it’s not hard to see why. Una Healy’s middle 8 isn’t quite as thrilling on record as it is on stage, but don’t let the ill-advised use of Auto-Tune spoil this moment of close-to pop perfection.

Also nestling among the new tracks is ‘Died In Your Eyes’, originally recorded by US pop upstart Kristinia DeBarge. Though few are likely to realise that it’s a cover – poor Kristinia! – it’s a shame that one of Headlines!‘ five new songs turns out to be second-hand. That said, it’s still a decent Tedderish pop ballad with lyrics that prove The Saturdays can “do” vulnerable when they want to.

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