Barlowgirl vs. Zoegirl

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They are both on the Christian charts in Billboard right now! Who are they? Are they rivals? Is either one better than the other? Tell me!

― xhuxk, Monday, 1 August 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

those sound like message board login names!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 1 August 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

last week zoegirl were and/or was at #23 (after 18 weeks) on the top christian albums chart and barlowgirl were and/or was at #31 (after 63 weeks!) i believe barlowgirl are a three-girl group actually. no idea (yet) about zoegirl. also, something called "superchick[k]" was at #30, after 16 weeks; not sure if that is relevant here or not.

― xhuxk, Monday, 1 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

jaci velasquez (whose new album i actually have heard, and like) was at #47 last week, after 11 weeks. (#1: still reliant k, the fuckers.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 1 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Oats, peas, beans and Barlow Girl
Oats, peas, beans and Barlow Girl
Can you or I or anyone know,
How oats, peas, beans and Barlow Girl?

― George Smith, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

so i actually heard an advance of the new barlowgirl album, which comes out in september! i decided they look totally cute, but they also totally suck. and boy, they sure do sing about god a lot.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:37 (twenty years ago)

i'll take "corn rigs and barley" over either

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

http://2005.sxsw.com/img/bands/20436.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard any of them. However, the Mark Allan Powell "Encyclopedia of CCM" says Superchick "calls themselves a 'pop-punk, hip-hop, disco-funk garage band,' but there is little funk and no punk in their sound. Actually, there isn't much hip-hop or disco either." And one of the songs on their debut album was called "Barlowe Girls"!

As for Zoe Girl, they're apparently "a new millennium girl group similar to Aurora, ShineMK, V*enna, and Whisper Loud." My goodness, there's a lot of 'em.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

OK, this is weird (from the new *Billboard*):

"The Barlow sisters are well-known for their views on abstinence. Christian music fans first heard about the siblings in the song 'Barlow Girl,' by the band Superchick that was written about them and their values. They make no bones about the fact that not only do they not believe in sex before marriage, they do not even believe in one-on-one dating."

So the way I'm reading this, Barlow Girl were apparently actually the *subject* of a hit song before they put a song of their own on the charts! Has that ever happened before, on *any* pop chart, anywhere? And now I'm wondering what exactly the song said, too....

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Too bad Barlow Girl has nothing to do with Tracy Barlow.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

We met these sisters Barlow's their last name
Ordinary girls they don't live in the fast lane
They don't rate with the guys that score
Cause they don't flaunt what the boys want more
They don't date they won't date
They wanna see how they're gonna grow up
Who they're gonna be
But in the meantime they might feel unloved
When all the girls around them are hooking up
But I know for sure it's never popular to be pure
And while some guys might be passing them by
I think they've caught someone's eye
(CHORUS)
All the boys in the band want a valentine from a Barlow Girl
Boys think they're the bomb
Cause they remind them of their mom
Everyone needs to be loved
Everyone needs their own teenage fan club
Any attention can feel like a good thing
Dress to impress can be oh so tempting
You can get noticed with your body
Sexual hypnosis by being hottie
You might feel like public property
You might you might you shouldn't be
No girl should feel she has to trade
Her body for love or be an old maid
And yes there are guys who are willing to wait
Ask a Barlow girl on her wedding day

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Has that ever happened before, on *any* pop chart, anywhere?

http://images.juno.co.uk/150/CS156474-01A.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

"Boys think they're the bomb
Cause they remind them of their mom"

Yeah, but Frankee wasn't mentioned by name, was she? (Roxanne Roxanne was before either Shante or Real Roxanne hit the charts, but it probably wasn't the same person per se.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

"Boys think they're the bomb
Cause they remind them of their mom"

!!!

I don't think this is sexually healthy!

xpost

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

But at least I got one ! more in than Chuck meaning I win!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

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