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 19th July 2020, 11:38 AM
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 Break the tension
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QUOTE(Scene @ Jul 17 2020, 11:13 PM)  Terrible winner. How did their most nondescript, bland song win this?  I find it astonishing that in a discography like theirs, someone would call that their most bland and nondescript song. 
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19th July 2020, 12:04 PM
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Whole Again is great
 but they kinda lost me after that with their endless list of covers, they sadly became a sorta female UB40 their Bangles cover was beyond bad 
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19th July 2020, 02:01 PM
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QUOTE(Tawdry Hepburn @ Jul 19 2020, 12:38 PM) I find it astonishing that in a discography like theirs, someone would call that their most bland and nondescript song. I must be missing something with Whole Again... everyone adores it here.  It certainly doesn't strike me as one of the best pop songs of the past 20 years. Maybe if I was a fan of AK prior to WA and witnessed it saving their career I may have more of an attachment to it but I wasn't and I don't. 
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19th July 2020, 02:14 PM
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 you never forget your first time...
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I didn't hear Whole Again until a year or two after it came out and I still love it! Each to their own but it's absolutely one of the most iconic pop songs ever, and even more so in the field of girl group singles!
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19th July 2020, 02:15 PM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ Jul 19 2020, 01:04 PM) Whole Again is great but they kinda lost me after that with their endless list of covers, they sadly became a sorta female UB40 their Bangles cover was beyond bad Endless list? Eternal Flame The Tide Is High Ladies Night |
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19th July 2020, 06:39 PM
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In their defence re: "endless covers" they were one of many pop acts releasing them. Girls Aloud released one every year until 2007 (Jump, I'll Stand By You, See The Day, I Think We're Alone Now, Walk This Way) - then you had Steps (Tragedy, Better The Devil You Know, I Know Him So Well), Westlife with nearly every release being a cover (Uptown Girl, Mandy, You Raise Me Up to name a few) - there are probably quite a few examples too.
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19th July 2020, 09:07 PM
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 I found the love, I found the love in me
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Releasing a cover was a quick, cheap and easy way for the label to cash in back then. I think adding rent-a-rappers/guest verses to pre-existing album tracks now is the equivalent of an act releasing a cover song back then.
But yeah... they had 3 covers throughout their chart life (4 if we have to include 'Anyone Who Had A Heart' :') lmao) it's hardly milking it. |
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19th July 2020, 09:09 PM
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It's easy to forget how common and acceptable it was to release covers of already-successful songs in the late 90s and early 00s. It was almost EXPECTED whereas these days it's basically taboo.
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13th March 2024, 12:05 AM
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I can’t remember why I gave Ladies Night an 11. I certainly wouldn’t give it that high a score now.
 I was re-listening to their Greatest Hits and still love so many of these songs. |
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