No, seriously. The COMPLETELY forgotten about "Reality Television", er, "stars", seem to still have some kind of a record deal with SonyBMG, even after their first single "Party Girl" managed to sell half a copy last year. For those of you that don't remember what "Party Girl" sounded like, think of the Aloud's "Sound Of The Underground" the morning after a night on Speed and Heroin. Let's throw in a lethal dosage of GHB as well for "good measure". An absolute mess of a song, with a chorus that was not far off from being similar to the sound of nails down a chalkboard, rather than one of the underground.

The girls were introduced to no more than 7 people on a television show in Australia, imaginatively titled Girlband, which aired on Sunday Nights for about 2 weeks, and was then moved to Sunday Mornings at about 4am 10am for the remaining few. In the very first episode, the people behind this masterful creation pretty much said "We liked the success and overall package of Girls Aloud in the U.K. - we wanted to make something like that here." They even showed a clip of the "Biology" video. I was all for this happening, and when the press releases hinted at it being a bit of Rogue Traders-esque sound, I thought the girls would do really well. But as the show progressed, the poor girls who'd been roped i

nto this job were meek, boring and very dull shadows of the Girls their Management were trying to turn them into. Girls Aloud or Rogue Traders they were not, in fact, nor were they even close to Clea. These were four girls who just didn't fit together. It didn't help matters that the songs heard on the show and first single were all nothing short of terrible.

But things seem to have continued for them. The Girls have just returned from India after recording the theme song for an upcoming Bollywood Movie horrifically titled "Heyy Babyy". Still no word on if they'll ever be releasing that album though, which was news I searched for on their MySpace (which if you go visit, you'll actually find a fairly good track called "Stand Up"). So whilst I was snooping around, I noticed their latest publicity shot. It reminded me of something, so I thought I would share it around.

Labels: Australian Pop, Girls Aloud

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