I am assuming they didn't get the rights to have Call Me Maybe on the dvd.

The DVD has entered the Music Video chart at #7 !

Watching the DVD now having finally got hold of it! Looks like I missed a great show, I still don't get why Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me flopped so hard, it's such a gorgeous song (aside from Nadine's terrible 'my baby' bits in the chorus).

Watching the DVD now having finally got hold of it! Looks like I missed a great show, I still don't get why Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me flopped so hard, it's such a gorgeous song (aside from Nadine's terrible 'my baby' bits in the chorus).

 

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Soz Nadine, I love her but that bit somehow seems even more pointless live than on record (and it was always pointless before!).

The whole song is pointless. They probably had a Xenomania banger laying around that they could have popped on the record instead.

They can't do Xenomania bangers all the time. It showed a different side of Girls Aloud and personally I LOVED it. It shouldn't have been a single though, over On the Metro at least.

I do really like the song, but I definitely consider it to be their worst original song (in terms of the singles). Ultimately, I don't feel like it was very "them" - so I found these quotes to be a bit worrying...

 

Nicola Roberts said, "after I heard the first line, I said, 'STOP! That's our song'," while Kimberley Walsh added, "as soon as I heard it, from the first line onwards, I agreed with Nicola – we had to get that song."

 

... because this makes me feel like neither of them really understood what Girls Aloud were all about, if this is a song which called out to them as something they *had* to have for the group. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice song, but I think if they'd left it as a bonus track on 'Ten' then that would have been sufficient enough. The decision to make a video for it and make it into a lazy single was a bad decision. (By lazy, I mean it only being available via download from 'Ten').

 

I don't think Girls Aloud ever quite made a truly great ballad tbh (singles or album tracks). Most of them were mediocre. 'Whole Lotta History' is probably their best, but it's somewhat laid back and not as "epic" as a lot of other girl group ballads have been.

According to someone on Popjustice, the Ten Tour audio is being released before the end of 2023! :o