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Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Oct 11 2020, 04:47 PM

Couple of polls here to see who your faves are and is your fave member personality wise the same as who you like more musically.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Oct 11 2020, 04:57 PM

Sarah is my fave as i think when she did big brother we got to see her vulnerable side, she also did a show here in Ireland called living with lucy and you again see how vulnerable she is but also down to earth.
Cheryl has always been my least fave both musically and a personality.
Nicola got my vote for fave musically as i think she really suprised people with her debut album.

Posted by: pippa Oct 11 2020, 05:28 PM

Sarah.
Kimberley.
Nadine.
Kimberley.

Posted by: Lukuzz Oct 11 2020, 06:38 PM

Nicola
Kimberley
Nicola
Sarah

Posted by: Lukuzz Oct 11 2020, 06:38 PM

Sorry double post

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Oct 11 2020, 08:19 PM

I really liked kimberley for a long time but in recent years she has come across more fake and i went right off her, i think this was really highlighted when Nadine was in im a celeb.

Posted by: jlj Oct 12 2020, 12:52 AM

Cheryls my favourite musically and personally too (a Geordie icon).

Musically I’d probably say Kimberley as least favourite solo wise but Cheryl and Nicola are the only ones who’s solo work has grabbed me.

I don’t dislike any of them as people though I think they’re all great. There’s no bad eggs in this group.

Interestingly (perhaps another poll idea) but if you were to have asked vocally who I like the best I wonder who people would say there.

Posted by: ...ready for it Oct 12 2020, 10:30 PM

Cheryl
Sarah
Cheryl
Sarah

Posted by: Blade Oct 12 2020, 10:39 PM

Nadine is by far my favourite personality in the group. Her recent 'I'm a Celebrity' stint warmed me to her even more wub.gif and she has the strongest voice.

I voted for Cheryl for strongest music. I feel like my taste should sway more towards Nicola but 'Beat Of My Drum' aside, her music never really clicked with me in a major way and her voice grates at time. Cheryl has released her fair share of clunkers but also has the largest amount of songs that I feel strongly about in a positive way too.

I voted Kimberley for both of the negative ones but I don't even dislike her that much laugh.gif

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Oct 13 2020, 12:02 AM

Nadine came across brilliantly on I'm a celeb.

Posted by: pippa Oct 13 2020, 12:50 PM

It was a good show for Nadine as it was all positive.
I had hoped it would transcend into some musical success.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn Oct 13 2020, 02:57 PM

Nicola has the best solo album, although Nadine was my favourite member.

Cheryl had my least favourite album from anybody ever in Messy Little Raindrops, a few other awful singles, I don't rate her as a performer/artist and I don't like her as a person either... but she does have a few good songs, whereas I found nothing redeeming about any of Kimberley's solo output.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Oct 13 2020, 03:45 PM

Nicola surprised everyone with her debut and she came up with a sound that wasnt expected, Nadines solo music was a let down and i think solo wise she had the most potential but ended up a bit disappointing really, she just never got that big song when she started out solo which was what she needed.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn Oct 13 2020, 05:14 PM

That Tesco thing ultimately totally f***ed Nadine, which is sad and unfortunate.

Posted by: Boo!piter Oct 13 2020, 05:39 PM

What did Kimberley even do, honestly?
The majority of the time I feel like she was just there or just there being Cheryl's shadow.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Oct 13 2020, 08:34 PM

She has had her solo lines in songs to be fair to her.

Posted by: Spiceboy Oct 16 2020, 05:51 PM

I like Nicola both personality wise and musically, her album is excellent!

Least favourite personality wise is Kimberley, her slagging off on Nadine in her book etc really put me off her, I find her a bit basic too out of them all.

Musically it has to be Sarah nothing she has done has grabbed me, I did quite like The Road from Kimberley at least.

Posted by: pippa Oct 16 2020, 10:25 PM

QUOTE(Spiceboy @ Oct 16 2020, 06:51 PM) *
I like Nicola both personality wise and musically, her album is excellent!

Least favourite personality wise is Kimberley, her slagging off on Nadine in her book etc really put me off her, I find her a bit basic too out of them all.

Musically it has to be Sarah nothing she has done has grabbed me, I did quite like The Road from Kimberley at least.

The slagging of Nadine in her book changed my opinion for the worst of Kimberley.

Posted by: Last Dreamer Oct 17 2020, 06:02 AM

QUOTE(Feel_The_Fever @ Oct 11 2020, 07:57 PM) *
Sarah is my fave
Cheryl has always been my least fave both musically and a personality.

This.

In music category I also voted for Sarah, because "Threads" spent 3 weeks at # 1 in my chart. Kimberley's album wasn't bad too.

Posted by: Spiceboy Oct 17 2020, 12:17 PM

QUOTE(pippa @ Oct 16 2020, 11:25 PM) *
The slagging of Nadine in her book changed my opinion for the worst of Kimberley.


Definitely I’ve never really liked her since there was really no need for it. Also how she was all “oh it’s so difficult watching your best friend going through that on TV she is so brave can’t wait to give her a hug” etc etc on Loose Women when Nadine was in IACGMOOH ewwww fake!

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Oct 17 2020, 12:43 PM

It def changed my opinion on her aswell as i think when she wrote her book she thought it might be slightly popular to slag Nadine but when she saw nadines popularity on im a celeb she just changed her opinion.

Posted by: Jay* Oct 17 2020, 05:03 PM

Kimberley's book put me off her too. She barely had one kind word to say about Nadine or Sarah in it! Obviously we don't know a lot of what happened behind closed doors... but after 10 years, the main comment she made about Sarah is that she didn't think they'd have ever been friends if they'd not been in the group together (which seemed to me like a bit of an unnecessary/cruel thing to point out in a book).

Kimberley and Nadine came across like they were great friends during the Popstars: The Rivals and the earlier days of the band (for a time they lived together!)... there must have been some nice stories to tell of those times, but she didn't share anything.

Whatever her issues were with Nadine must have been very fresh in her mind when the book came out. Clearly Kimberley (and Cheryl/Nicola) had major grievances with Nadine, but I don't think Kimberley's book justified why things got so bad between them. From memory, things Kimberley didn't appreciate: Nadine moving to LA, getting a solo manager towards the end of the Tangled Up era, and stuff like Nadine not being very good at being on time. Idk, it all seemed petty. I doubt many readers of that book would have thought "yeah, I see where Kimberley is coming from".

I'm not sure why Nadine having solo ambitions was so frowned upon, because Cheryl put the ground work in for her solo career during Tangled Up too (that's when she became an X Factor judge), and then she recorded 3 Words during the Out of Control era. Fight for This Love premiered in September 2009, the same month that Girls Aloud embarked on their hiatus. It's not like Cheryl wasted any time. So I've never understood why they resented Nadine for this and not Cheryl.

I was completely obsessed with Girls Aloud during their hey day, so a part of me will always find it a shame that they went on hiatus just as they hit their commercial peak. I'll always believe if they'd released a 6th album it would have been even bigger than Out of Control!

Meh, it's all in the past. If everything is better between them on a personal level now, that's good!

Posted by: pippa Oct 17 2020, 05:35 PM

A 6th album without a hiatus would have met with great success.Their hiatus came at the wrong time.
Kimberleys book highlight there was 2 Girls Aloud teams, Cheryl, Nicola and Kimberley in one and Sarah and Nadine in the other.
The book in many ways diminished the perception of the group which wasn't necessary.

Posted by: Spiceboy Oct 18 2020, 07:51 PM

QUOTE(pippa @ Oct 17 2020, 06:35 PM) *
A 6th album without a hiatus would have met with great success.Their hiatus came at the wrong time.
Kimberleys book highlight there was 2 Girls Aloud teams, Cheryl, Nicola and Kimberley in one and Sarah and Nadine in the other.
The book in many ways diminished the perception of the group which wasn't necessary.



From Sarah's perspective though she always comes across as feeling like she was just left out a lot from the Cheryl / Nicola / Kimberley clique rather than it being 2 teams C/N/K and S/N... I'm starting to question whether Nicola is my favourite personality now, I might go with Sarah as the C/N/K clique does appear a little bitchy from the outset afterall.

Posted by: Spiceboy Oct 18 2020, 07:53 PM

QUOTE(Jay* @ Oct 17 2020, 06:03 PM) *
Kimberley's book put me off her too. She barely had one kind word to say about Nadine or Sarah in it! Obviously we don't know a lot of what happened behind closed doors... but after 10 years, the main comment she made about Sarah is that she didn't think they'd have ever been friends if they'd not been in the group together (which seemed to me like a bit of an unnecessary/cruel thing to point out in a book).

Kimberley and Nadine came across like they were great friends during the Popstars: The Rivals and the earlier days of the band (for a time they lived together!)... there must have been some nice stories to tell of those times, but she didn't share anything.

Whatever her issues were with Nadine must have been very fresh in her mind when the book came out. Clearly Kimberley (and Cheryl/Nicola) had major grievances with Nadine, but I don't think Kimberley's book justified why things got so bad between them. From memory, things Kimberley didn't appreciate: Nadine moving to LA, getting a solo manager towards the end of the Tangled Up era, and stuff like Nadine not being very good at being on time. Idk, it all seemed petty. I doubt many readers of that book would have thought "yeah, I see where Kimberley is coming from".

I'm not sure why Nadine having solo ambitions was so frowned upon, because Cheryl put the ground work in for her solo career during Tangled Up too (that's when she became an X Factor judge), and then she recorded 3 Words during the Out of Control era. Fight for This Love premiered in September 2009, the same month that Girls Aloud embarked on their hiatus. It's not like Cheryl wasted any time. So I've never understood why they resented Nadine for this and not Cheryl.

I was completely obsessed with Girls Aloud during their hey day, so a part of me will always find it a shame that they went on hiatus just as they hit their commercial peak. I'll always believe if they'd released a 6th album it would have been even bigger than Out of Control!

Meh, it's all in the past. If everything is better between them on a personal level now, that's good!



THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!

Cheryl put the work in even before that featuring on Will-I-Am's Heartbreaker which went top 5.

Also I never ever got the reasoning for taking a break when the girls were at their peak, other than to give Cheryl a chance to release her solo stuff I mean she had it all ready to go in perfect timing... in which case the hate against Nadine is so uncalled for.

Posted by: inyourroom Oct 18 2020, 09:11 PM

I was drawn to Nicola as soon as I first set eyes on the 5 of them, and I was happy to learn later that it was not only superficial attraction, her personality and solo music lived up to my expectations.

I don't dislike any of them, but I'm OK with "least liked", so Nadine ended up at #5 on the personality contest - there's a reason the others no longer wanted to put up with her, and I didn't appreciate her playing the victim in the break-up story to score points with the fans (of course she wanted the band to go on, her solo career was dead and buried at that point).
Musically, I don't have a strong preference apart from my #1 spot, but for the sake of completing my vote, I went with Kimberley as least liked.

Posted by: inyourroom Oct 18 2020, 09:23 PM

QUOTE(Feel_The_Fever @ Oct 17 2020, 02:43 PM) *
when she saw nadines popularity on im a celeb she just changed her opinion.

May I ask what is this (quite frequently mentioned) observation based on?
I might be a bit ignorant on the subject, but I don't recall Kimberley slagging off Nadine too much since her book came out, and I'm fairly certain when she said "I think she's gonna be a great mum" in this interview, it wasn't because she knew how Nadine's going to come across in a TV show 6 years later.
https://youtu.be/gTjvmYepDHc?t=141

Posted by: JosephStyles Nov 1 2020, 03:52 PM

Fave member: Nadine
Least fave member: Kimberley
Fave solo: Nicola
Least fave solo: Kimberley

Posted by: Andrew. Nov 1 2020, 04:39 PM

Fave member - Nadine (obviously darling!)
Least fave - Kimberley (in the band she was pretty weak vocally, and she only ever seems to do interviews talking about the more famous members of the band :'))
Fave Musically - Nicola
Least Fave Musically - Kimberley

Nicola has an amazing album and of course slayed on The Masked Singer. She's probably joint 2nd with Sarah. I even like Kimberley most of the time laugh.gif

Along with most of y'all I preferred Sarah/Nadine to Cheryl/Kimberley/Nicola (the Rolaskatox of Girls Aloud xo) That interview they did about PCD was very telling, it was funny but Cheryl/Kimberley/Nicola mouthed off in the front about them (Cheryl in particular was very bitchy about Nicole and Melody, she's always had a problem with Nicole for some reason? laugh.gif) while Nadine and Sarah kept it classy in the back. I don't dislike any individual member of the group but personality wise Sarah and Nadine come off funnier and more interesting, although Sarah's CBB stint was a bit of a mess.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Nov 2 2020, 09:24 PM

Ironically that interview shows the divide in the group as in a group of 2 and a group of 3 who are so differnet.

Posted by: spiceboy Nov 4 2020, 01:23 PM

QUOTE(Andrew. @ Nov 1 2020, 04:39 PM) *
Fave member - Nadine (obviously darling!)
Least fave - Kimberley (in the band she was pretty weak vocally, and she only ever seems to do interviews talking about the more famous members of the band :'))
Fave Musically - Nicola
Least Fave Musically - Kimberley

Nicola has an amazing album and of course slayed on The Masked Singer. She's probably joint 2nd with Sarah. I even like Kimberley most of the time laugh.gif

Along with most of y'all I preferred Sarah/Nadine to Cheryl/Kimberley/Nicola (the Rolaskatox of Girls Aloud xo) That interview they did about PCD was very telling, it was funny but Cheryl/Kimberley/Nicola mouthed off in the front about them (Cheryl in particular was very bitchy about Nicole and Melody, she's always had a problem with Nicole for some reason? laugh.gif) while Nadine and Sarah kept it classy in the back. I don't dislike any individual member of the group but personality wise Sarah and Nadine come off funnier and more interesting, although Sarah's CBB stint was a bit of a mess.



What interview is this? I've not heard of it?

Posted by: Andrew. Nov 4 2020, 01:29 PM

QUOTE(spiceboy @ Nov 4 2020, 01:23 PM) *
What interview is this? I've not heard of it?


Posted by: spiceboy Nov 5 2020, 04:32 PM

Aah never seen that before. I kinda see why All Saints got to mouthy about them after seeing that interview there was a layer of cattiness to the whole thing! ohmy.gif Don't get me wrong AS were OTT in the clap back but I never understood the reasoning before, I see it now.

Posted by: Atonement Nov 5 2020, 06:24 PM

QUOTE(Andrew. @ Nov 4 2020, 02:29 PM) *


This interview is so funny laugh.gif. You can just imagine Nadine and Sarah in the background thinking Cheryl needs to keep her big mouth closed.

What kind of interview is this anyway? Why would you interview a young girl band on their opinion about other girl bands. What a nasty set-up that Cheryl walked right into. (Kind of wished they had asked about the Sugababes too tho).

Posted by: spiceboy Nov 5 2020, 10:47 PM

QUOTE(Atonement @ Nov 5 2020, 06:24 PM) *
This interview is so funny laugh.gif. You can just imagine Nadine and Sarah in the background thinking Cheryl needs to keep her big mouth closed.

What kind of interview is this anyway? Why would you interview a young girl band on their opinion about other girl bands. What a nasty set-up that Cheryl walked right into. (Kind of wished they had asked about the Sugababes too tho).



They used to ask questions like this all the time, Melanie C was asked in a German interview what she thought of other girl bands and she said that she loved Destiny's Child and No Angel (a German girlband I believe) and that there was a UK girlband the interviewer wouldn't have heard of called Girls Aloud who were really good too (bit of a backhanded compliment laugh.gif )

Also not really a nasty set up, the girls could have said nice things it was their choice to say the other stuff too... laugh.gif


Ps totally wish they had asked about Sugababes too laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Nov 6 2020, 02:58 AM

Def a set up interview to cause a bit of controversy.

Posted by: Chemistry Nov 9 2020, 01:32 PM

QUOTE(Feel_The_Fever @ Nov 6 2020, 03:58 AM) *
Def a set up interview to cause a bit of controversy.


The press loved to set up female artists towards each other, and Cheryl run with it. See also her versus Lily in the Gordon Ramsey clip. It's a shame but I do think times have changed now. I don't think they would have said anything bad about Sugababes, as they always seemed to get along quite well.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Nov 11 2020, 07:58 PM

I think the press tried to create the girls aloud vs sugababes rivalry but it never kicked in thank god as the tabloiads always loved pitting females against each other.

Posted by: Jay* Nov 12 2020, 05:44 PM

That interview is a classic laugh.gif

It's funny, Cheryl really had no filter in those days! She just freely said whatever she was feeling and didn't seem to care too much about how that would come across (more evidence of this throughout the Off the Record documentary!). From my perspective, it was only when she became a judge on The X Factor that she became more media trained.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever Nov 12 2020, 06:43 PM

She def became more media trained through the x factor as before that she hadnt a clue how to conduct herself in public,

Posted by: pippa Dec 18 2020, 01:21 AM

In general a very bad result for Kimberley.

Posted by: Road Salt Mixer Dec 19 2020, 07:11 PM

Favorite member: Cheryl
Least favourite member: Kimberley (don't dislike any of them but the other four just seem to be slightly more well known members)
musically favourite: Nicole (for Lucky Day which I really liked at the time and Beat of My Drum was....interesting.
Musically last favourite: Nadine (solo songs I found a bit bit boring iirc.)

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