that new sugababes single

this sounds like my dream record.

even without the red haired one!

the girls on top thing is bosstin.

i like the idea of sugababes doing gary numan.

does it for me anyway

I had her album sent to me free way the hell back when but got rid of it. Can't remember the damn song to save my life.

Would Mr. Finney care to enlighten the skeptical members of our viewing audience with a more succinct justification for canonizing Ms. Howard's freaky booty call?

Sounds more like something Livingston Taylor would sing.

The Adina track isn't a classic, but it flows, and it's of a time when horrible 14 year old Nokia addicts weren't up to musical consciousness, so cool by default.

Music for little girls to buy jeans in Miss Selfridge to. Shit generation.

Little snippet for you 😉

“Flowers” will be released at midnight. pic.twitter.com/k6uNskIPMV

— Sugababes (@sugababesmks) October 17, 2019

it’s a cover :)

This has come up in the 00s poll thread too cos the original placed :)

boggling at the freak like me takes upthread, wtaf

we’ve come a long way baby

aw it's off the new DJ Spoony Garage Classical comp - basically garage covers with orchestral arrangements.

Lily Allen covering "Sweet Like Chocolate" and Paloma Faith covering "Moving Too Fast" too, among others: https://open.spotify.com/album/0ffDkx9XNvg59sxuWbUNYq?si=yOcJhCLDRV6uzMK-iYICKQ

i saw the advert for this the other night and, well, it's not for me

"Flowers" doesn't sound *too* orchestra-y tho

xp me neither tbh but if it gets people on to the originals then more power to it. none of them are too orchestral-ish to be fair, they're more like orchestral ~flourishes~

yeah i'm just kind of baffled why orchestral versions of stuff has become this minor thing

new twist on touring

these orchestral versions of dance music things always feel like an attempt to force some kind of perceived and unnecessary ~legitimacy~ on to music that doesn't need it

this is nice enough and their voices are always a pleasure to hear but I would never ever want to hear this over the original under any circumstance

In theory I like the idea of playing dance music with physical instruments, but you have to use it to add something, not to make it sound more glossy and, yes, "prestigious" - the grime prom a couple of years back actually worked, as (I think, you may disagree) does this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKFbnhcNnjE

Flowers is the only halfway decent one. Sincere, Movin’ Too Fast & Sweet Like Chocolate are all appalling.

anything with Paloma Faith is appalling

What about that MKS album that was supposed to come out years ago?

"In theory I like the idea of playing dance music with physical instruments, but you have to use it to add something, not to make it sound more glossy and, yes, "prestigious" - the grime prom a couple of years back actually worked, as (I think, you may disagree) does this"

It's ancient but Jeremy Deller's Acid Brass had the right tone - it was ludicrous, but it was done with gusto. Here's a live version of "Voodoo Ray", that works because the original track has enough musical material to build an orchestration around:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdpwAxkCj7I

https://t.co/lRfgNXe8Fp pic.twitter.com/0sMROlu3hD

— Sugababes (@Sugababes) May 10, 2021

that's what's going on: https://www.nme.com/news/music/sugababes-reunion-interview-one-touch-20-anniversary-new-music-little-mix-2937274

this remix is good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6xERyVsI0
Sugababes • Run For Cover (MNEK Remix)