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Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 04:50 AM
The Saturdays - If This Is Love
Official Peaks
United Kingdom - #08
European Hot 100 #33
Ireland - DNC
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 04:51 AM
Reception.
King blogged about her reaction to when she first saw the video: suddenly we got a call from our management telling us to come into the office to watch our video for 'If This Is Love' for the first time ever! Ahhh we were so nervous and so excited! We all shot up there as fast as we could and all I can say is... 'Oh my God, it is amazing!' We were so happy, Ness (Vanessa White) and I even started crying! We all ran out of the office after and had a group hug (yes, my idea, you know I like to cheese things up, haha). I wanted to run out onto the street and shout 'Hey everyone our music video rocks!
PopSugar positively reviewed the video, saying they loved the group's logo and walk in unison. Following the release of the music video, Nadia Mendoza of The Sun said that Girls Aloud better watch out because The Saturdays could steal their crown as sexiest girl group, further mentioning: "The fivesome are injecting some glamour back into the charts."[Popjustice positively reviewed the music video, saying: "As well as being a nice video featuring some pretty ladies in colourful frocks, it's a brilliant piece of suggestive film making which clearly signposts several important factors for the viewer.
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 04:53 AM
My Favourite Live Performance
My Least Favourite Live Performances.
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 05:00 AM
Buzzjack Reception.
The song is so damn good. I love it.
The performance was SO bad
I remember they were a lot better on tour, but on TV it looked terrible!
The horrible 90s-styled dresses, the dodgy dancing, the out of tune vocals. WTF @ that :|
It's a high risk strategy as I said. Polydor could have done with testing the waters tbh first. The girl group market is certainly small and in a current music climate emphatic on organic and creative mediums I wonder if a group so glaringly manufactured and as soulless as The Saturdays will be able to make it big.
But the fact Polydor have thrown so much money at them to get them played everywhere means they'll have a semi-hit irrespective of quality/interest. We'll just have to see if it's enough for the record label in a few months time...
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 05:03 AM
The song is so damn good. I love it.The performance was SO bad
I remember they were a lot better on tour, but on TV it looked terrible!
The horrible 90s-styled dresses, the dodgy dancing, the out of tune vocals. WTF @ that :|
It's a high risk strategy as I said. Polydor could have done with testing the waters tbh first. The girl group market is certainly small and in a current music climate emphatic on organic and creative mediums I wonder if a group so glaringly manufactured and as soulless as The Saturdays will be able to make it big.
But the fact Polydor have thrown so much money at them to get them played everywhere means they'll have a semi-hit irrespective of quality/interest. We'll just have to see if it's enough for the record label in a few months time...
As for the better vocals on ITIL well, it's auto-tune, they can't sing it live as they've already proved so computerised is perhaps a better descrption of their vocal abilities.
My words to yourself a few pages back in this thread seem expectantly fitting don't they?
It was basically non-fans p***ing the fans off by putting The Saturdays down.
The band haven't even released ONE single, so how can anyone feel so strongly about disliking them?
I just feel like the people who argued The Saturdays were bad were doing it basically to cure boredom.
A lot of the arguments weren't even related to the band... "what music was like when I grew up", "this unsigned band", "that under-rated act".
While I understand that this is a forum and you're free to like or dislike whatever you want to, please can we keep the negativity to where it is needed.
i.e not -post- "So, the single..."-reply- "It's $h!te". Totally unneeded.
On that note. I apologise if I have said anything in here that has offended anyone.
It was intended, but I do apologise for it
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 05:04 AM
Topic Of If This Is Love
If y'all think we are crazy then look at 51 pages of arguing
http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69418&st=420
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 05:05 AM
Current Reception?
Do you think If This Is Love was a good single to launch The Saturdays?
Do you still enjoy If This Is Love?
Are you surprised that If This Is Love managed to go top 10?
Discuss all things regarding 'If This Is Love' here before we move onto 'Up'! 
Posted by: Joe. 27th January 2015, 08:52 AM
I remember taking notice when I randomly saw this on TV. like Who the f*** are they girls, their song is kinda catchy.
Posted by: Cameron 27th January 2015, 10:12 AM
Do you think If This Is Love was a good single to launch The Saturdays? Yes
Do you still enjoy If This Is Love? Of Course
Are you surprised that If This Is Love managed to go top 10? Nope, it is flawless
Posted by: JSG 27th January 2015, 10:17 AM
I remember hearing it on the radio before I knew who they were and who was in the band and i was instantly hooked on the song. It took me a couple of days to find out what the song was and who it was by. I really thought it was a fantastic debut tbh.
Posted by: AdamAloud 27th January 2015, 10:28 AM
I first heard the song about a month before the 'Tangled Up' tour for Girls Aloud started. I'd heard of this new girlband supporting them and naturally I wanted to check out if they were any good. So I downloaded 'If This Is Love' from Girls Aloud Media (</3 gone but not forgotten!) and I absolutely loved it! It was like listening to a Girls Aloud song if they were around in the 80's. It was around then I started watching the flip videos on their site (the days when they were anything from 5 - 10 minutes long! Not the crappy ones we get now) and instantly fell in love with them as a pop band. It's by no means a 'classic' track in terms of themselves or even girlbands in general, but I have many happy memories of the song and the time it was from. I get very nostalgic every time I hear it.
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 11:38 AM
I was never a big fan of This Is Love and had no idea about iTunes etc when it charted. I'm surprised it managed to do as well as it did with some laughable promotion. I'm guessing miming was more around 6 years ago etc in comparison to know but I'm surprised they managed a top 10 hit with half arsed performances.
Posted by: *Tim 27th January 2015, 11:40 AM
Never really quite loved this song and I always regarded Up as their true debut 
Posted by: Hurricane 27th January 2015, 02:15 PM
Do you still enjoy If This Is Love? Of Course
Are you surprised that If This Is Love managed to go top 10? Nope, it is flawless
This.
Yaaaass Cameron, show me that good taste of yours I've heard so much about but has never seen.
Posted by: Cameron 27th January 2015, 02:31 PM
This.
Yaaaass Cameron, show me that good taste of yours I've heard so much about but has never seen.
I hate 'I Miss Auto-tune' too 
Posted by: Hurricane 27th January 2015, 02:46 PM
I hate 'I Miss Auto-tune' too OMG YASSS CAM KEEP'EM COMING
Posted by: Wall-e 27th January 2015, 09:42 PM
It would have been interesting how things would have turned out for the 'Chasing Lights' era had they choose 'Up' instead of 'If This Is Love'! 'Up' is their signature single without a shadow of a doubt but 'If This Is Love' helped them become noticed.
Posted by: Sean. 28th January 2015, 09:29 PM
What interests me most about Chasing Lights (and If This Is Love/Up as well), was how Wordshaker would have panned out had they stuck with their colours! 
Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 28th January 2015, 10:54 PM
I really liked if is is love and remember seeing it a lot on the music channels back in 2008
Posted by: JSG 28th January 2015, 10:58 PM
I think the problem with Wordshaker was the really quick shift of sound between singles I mean ending the CL era on Work and then Pushing on into FIO. They should have released Ego.
Posted by: Jay ジ 29th January 2015, 11:01 AM
I feel like 'If This Is Love' is pretty underrated. It's a solid pop song!
It provides a lot of great memories of summer 2008 for me. I met them / saw them more times during the 'If This Is Love' promotion than at any other time in their careers! The Up/Keep Her/Issues/If This Is Love set list though. 
Keep Her with the "ribbons routine"... amazing.
Posted by: Joe. 30th January 2015, 12:18 PM
I agree it's really under-rated too. The only thing is, the production is a bit underwhelming, it sounds a bit demo. I think with more expensive sounding production it could have been a bit bigger. Though 120k is farily respectable for such an underrated track.
Posted by: missingyou 30th January 2015, 01:04 PM
it reminds me of my first gay club experiences
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