Girls Aloud Would Like To Powder Your Wig

noah | February 19, 2008 4:15 am
I haven’t spent a lot of time reading up on Girls Aloud’s Tangled Up, so perhaps someone already noted this, but the guitars on their new single “Can’t Speak French” sound like they were sampled from a Quiet Storm radio show, to the point where they’re distracting me from the vocals, the French maid-y outfits that the ladies are wearing (I do like that birdcage skirt, though), and the ridiculous “period” costumes that the dudes who become the girls’ ad hoc backup dancers were forced to don. Seriously, listen to it and tell me if they don’t scream Weather Channel Presents: Best Of Smooth Jazz to you, too. (Also of note: One of the single’s b-sides is going to be the version of Robyn’s “With Every Heartbeat” that the group performed on the BBC last fall. The only word that I can think of to describe said cover is “wobbly,” but I’m sure some Polydor employee will fix it in post. Clip after the jump.)

Girls Aloud – Can’t Speak French [YouTube]

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