It's time for Nicola Friday, the exciting (!) new 'regular thing' that happens on IAR, funnily enough, every Friday. On Nicola Friday's, myself, or someone from a blog I love dearly (Alyson from CFBGoesPop was last weeks Nicola Friday Guest Contributor) discusses in great detail what song from the vaults of pop they would like to see Girls Aloud band leader Nicola Roberts cover, once the ladies split up and Nicola goes it alone.

Last fortnight I professed my love at the mere thought of Nicola one day covering Madonna's Gambler. This time around, it's Girls Aloud's "Models".

You are probably thinking it's a little strange that I've selected a song by Girls Aloud, the pop group Nicola is currently a member of, for this weeks Nicola Friday. But If you all remember correctly, "Models" was cruelly overlooked as a single in place of the ballad "Whole Lotta Hysterectomy Histriiiiia History". Whilst that song was quite nice, it didn't perform as well as the girls' "people" had hoped. This was quite clearly because they hadn't released "Models", which would have been at least Number 5 for about a week.

So in light of the fact that not many people even know the avant-garde brilliance of "Models" even exists, Nicola Roberts, the year 2007, mega super-solo-popstar, famous the whole world over (UK, US & Australian Number #1 debut single), is about to release her first solo album, and the second single to come if it is a dance floor stomper called "Models".

Even though it is quite safe to say that no one could quite do this song the amount of justice that my beloved Kimberly does in the original, I'm quite certain that Nicola's solo effort would be almost just as good.

The video clip would take place in a Myer/Grace Brothers Store. It is after dark and the 7 or 8 mannequin Nicola's around the clothing department start to "come to life", eyes begin blinking and their mouths start to move: "Girls Girls Girls.... Girls Girls Girls...." coo the plastic Nicola's, who would be completely still if it weren't for their lips moving to the song. Then, the all out stomper assault of "COZ HE Loves the models..." begins, and the Nicola's start moving about the store.

Obviously, all of the mannequin Nicola's have extremely large cat-walk like hair. The kind of hair Kimberley should have had in the clip if Girls Aloud had bothered to release the song in the first place.

They start trashing the shop, trying on clothes, dancing in the perfume department (smashing bottles and what not) and just generally causing a bit of a "kerfuffle". Things get a bit out of hand between two Nicola mannequins in Manchester after a pillow fight breaks out, and there are feathers flying everywhere.

You get the general idea of this clip, don't you? Mayhem in a shopping store, after hours. Amazing isn't it?

Of course, this song, in an ideal world, would go to Number #1 the world over and stay there for about 6 months.

But a number #5 in one or two countries for about a week would do.

MP3 >> Coming later on, I can't seem to get anything uploaded today.

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