Edith Bowman has blasted The Saturdays for being copycats.

 

The BBC Radio 1 DJ also hit out at current pop acts for offering nothing different, reports the Daily Star.

 

"We need something different - everyone is the same," she said.

 

On The Saturdays, whose new single charted at number three yesterday, she added: "They are just copying Girls Aloud.

 

"They are not exciting." Source: DigitalSpy

 

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This has REALLY annoyed me. I've never taken a personal issue with Edith, but she shows why Radio 1 needs more pop specialised DJs. Radio 1 is so harsh on pop music (less so now, 6/7 years ago it was absurd) and Edith has supported countless carbon-copied rock bands over the years, have they ever been compared to other artists? It's ridiclously unfair. Britain probably has 3 big pop acts (JLS, Girls Aloud and The Saturdays) and she takes issue to one having a similar pattern to the other, when the station quite happily plays all these rock bands without commenting on how they borrow from each other.

 

It's even more concerning that a radio 1 dj cannot distinguish between a saturdays and a girls aloud song.

 

 

Totally agree the Radio 1 DJ's are bitter at pop acts and totally out of touch.It is because pop is what the kids like not rock, indie, folk and alternative which is what thier middle aged producers and DJ's want to play.The Saturdays do their thing but because they do not play fifty instuments, sound like dying cats while wearing distressed denim it is not good enough.Everyone is not the same in pop but I think it drives R1 crazy that young people like The Wanted, Alexandra Burke, JLS, The Saturdays and mostly pop and dance acts as opposed to Vampire Weeked, Jonzi, Laura Marling, All Time Low.

Now I like Edith, she's not the most intersting of Radio 1 DJ's admittetly and I never really bother with her shows as Im either asleep or at work but she's always appeared relatively likeable. And I admit theres a good shot she's just been misquoted here but I really fail to understand what point she's trying to make here really. Yes, The Saturdays are a girlband. As are/were Girls Aloud. They both make pop music. The are similar and appeal to pretty much the same people, well done Edith for making this connection which clearly not one else had noticed.

Girls Aloud dont really defy originality as it is, and there were plenty of people running around to call them an awful group back before they became the untouchable figures in the media they currently are. Edith was probably one of them.

 

As for Radio 1 itself, I dont hugely agree with them being against pop in itself. They playlist the majority of the top 10 hits and the likes of Pixie Lott, JLS, Cheryl Cole, DeRulo get huge amounts of support from them, as seen when they were allowed to play Big Weekend. If they were predustice against pop it would have been a complete Indie/Alternative line-up. Radio 1 have to appeal to as many as they can, and I definatly dont think they should be crticized for playlisting Vampire Weekend over someone like Sophie Ellis Bextor.

Edith has never been very good at hiding her dislike of having to play music she doesnt like, it's why I think she'd be better suited at a later timeslot or even another station.

 

This should probably be in The Saturday's own forum but theres potential for a good topic here I suppose so it can stay in Pop.

I never see peoples point about Radio 1 not supporting pop music as they clearly do. And they do have a Pop DJs.

She has issues with any band that's not called The Editors.

As much as I dislike both, Girls Aloud have made far better songs than The Saturdays (who I find are quite bland tbh).

I think my point is that the comparisons between pop acts are much more frequent then between rock acts. There are tons of rock bands but far less pop acts, and as Edith is not obviously interested in pop music itself (thank goodness for scott mills) it just seems slightly unfair she would make the comment, when she would never had said a similar comment about Snow Patrol or Biffy Clyro.

 

And the playlists are much more open to pop music now, which is fantastic. But earlier in the decade Britain was turning out very few new pop acts (Girls Aloud were there, but took a long time to get 'credibility' so Sugababes kind of ran the show) as instuitions like Radio 1 failed to give them exposure on an equal level as to a group like The Killers.