Time for the thread title to change then since What About Us is confirmed. :D

 

Ooh, the girls are attending the VMAs and doing the red carpet apparently!! AMAZING. Then they're performing at Perez Hilton's VMA aftershow party with Rita Ora also playing among others.

 

We have no news for ages and then it all comes at once.. I can't cope. So excited for them. :D I love the first promo pictures for their new look/new era too... the colour is back! And they all look individual which is good but it all works together. Well, I like it bar Una's wonky tiara. :P

Edited August 31, 201212 yr by Encore

Very exciting!! :cheer:

 

And the new promo picture is brilliant! :wub:

 

http://i45.tinypic.com/348r0bb.jpg

http://www.thesaturdays.co.uk/news/the-sats-in-america/

 

The Sats in America!

 

The news you’ve been waiting for is HERE!

 

After loads of gossip and speculation, we are SO excited to announce that The Saturdays are officially taking on America!!

 

Firstly, The Sats are currently tucked away in a US studio recording their next album, due out early next year.

 

OMG!

 

But wait for it. The girls have just finished shooting the video to their BRAND NEW SINGLE ‘What About Us’ in LA which will serve as their first ever American single, as well as their new single in the UK!

 

Yes! Yes! Yes!

 

There’s new music from The Sats on the horizon shortly AND the girls will officially release their first ever international single in January 2013!

 

Is that too much info for you to take in? Well the American fun does not end there!

 

Next Thursday Sep 6 the girls will attend the VMAs, so watch out for their tweets from the red carpet! Afterwards, they will perform their FIRST EVER American show at Perez Hilton’s ‘One Night in LA’ event the same evening! If you want to attend the event, which surely will be a night to remember, you can purchase tickets here: http://perezhiltonla.eventbrite.com. Please note this event is restricted to those aged 21 and over.

 

Ah-maz-ing enough?

 

There’s more American news to be announced soon, so stay tuned for that…

 

But to ensure you do NOT miss out and to help The Sats take on America make sure YOU join their brand new official Twitter street team @TeamSats. Not only will you get access to exclusive news and gossip, but it’s the only place where we’ll be giving YOU the chance to win a pair of tickets to the girls’ first ever US show!! All you need to do is follow @TeamSats and tweet #UnitedSatsOfAmerica to enter. Please note that you must be aged 21 and over to enter and no transport nor accommodation will be provided.

 

And for ALL The Saturdays news, fun and more, make sure you like The Saturdays on Facebook and follow @TheSaturdays on Twitter!

Edited August 31, 201212 yr by Neil

A January release would be so much better for them. It's a quiet time...but then...A late September release would be so much better for us, fans....

This is going to be an agonising wait! :lol:

Apparently they're also attending the VMA's. :o

 

And they had two things trending on Twitter earlier about them going to America.

Uuuugh, I cannot wait !

Its a bit of a wait to the new single but maybe it might do better in a relatively quiet month.

If it's not released until Jan in both UK and US (which the mailer seems to suggest) why are they hyping it and talking about it now? Oh dear, it's just gonna be the same mistakes again isn't it haha? I know we've all been impatient for news/confirmation on the single but yeah... January is 4/5 months away. :mellow: Hmm. I hope they know what they're doing...

 

It'd be nice if in the promo pics of their new image they could somehow bring their names into the pics or something, not sure how but anything to get people knowing the girls names and identifying them etc.. make each girl stand out with something they can be identified by... could help people instead of saying 'my fave is the blonde one' etc etc. :P

Edited September 1, 201212 yr by Encore

"There’s new music from The Sats on the horizon shortly"

 

All you ever told me, Lies ! No more listening to no more words. No more sitting and trying. All you ever told me... LIES. :cry:

 

Finally, I can say a bit more about What About Us now!

 

I'm not sure where the speculation has come from that it's being released next month - it's being released in the UK and US in January 2013. Like I've said before, it will be worth the wait!

2ndAdventure, so it seems like you have heard it? Since people at the US club where What About Us was played the other night were replying to fans on Twitter etc about the song, so I guess you can say similar as in whether it's good etc - is Frankie right - is it really the girls' best single? Do you think it could it do well stateside or is it too dancey? I'm excited but nervous. :P There better be a big chorus!

 

Yikes, January is such a long wait. I hope revealing stuff now doesn't kill the hype, cause people to get fed up before the song is played for the first time - guess we'll hear it end of November/early December... and I hope it doesn't leak either!

Edited September 1, 201212 yr by Encore

2ndAdventure, so it seems like you have heard it? Since people at the US club where What About Us was played the other night were replying to fans on Twitter etc about the song, so I guess you can say similar as in whether it's good etc - is Frankie right - is it really the girls' best single? Do you think it could it do well stateside or is it too dancey? I'm excited but nervous. :P There better be a big chorus!

 

Yikes, January is such a long wait. I hope revealing stuff now doesn't kill the hype, cause people to get fed up before the song is played for the first time - guess we'll hear it end of November/early December... and I hope it doesn't leak either!

 

You've just answered your own question there :lol:

The problem with is there's NO promotion slots anywhere in January! I guess that's when there tv show must start in America and hopefully will be shown here aswell!

 

The song itself will most likely leak at the VMA'S so we have a song thats going to premiere 4 months in advance!

I dunno. I get the feeling we'll be getting well before the US. I get the feeling that the "January" tag is just when they'll be back in the States promoting the living shit out of it to help it become a hit (a bit like what Cher's done for 'Want U Back'.)

The thing is The Saturdays won't ever get that kind of promo. I just don't know how a label could get them that (the kind of promo Cher had) while it couldn't get them a simple X-Factor performance even after 3 or 4 years. There's plenty other big TV slots that they never had. I don't know, it's just the way it is. And somehow, I just don't see it happening in the US (i mean the big promo slots). But I really hope I'm wrong, because if they got big TV promo in the US, I reckon it would be easier for them to get some in the UK also.

 

Anyway, what they REALLY need is airplay. So if I were them, I'd promote the shit out of those radio stations E-V-E-R-Y-W-H-E-R-E.

I don't see why they'd have a problem getting airplay with What About Us. It is very Capital friendly.

It'll be interesting to see if Capital do get back onboard with What About Us. I really, really hope it does well both sides of the pond, and has longevity/widespread appeal outside the fanbase too.. hopefully it strikes a chord with the general public and they buy into it too. They really need to kill it and be on top of their game now what with Little Mix/Stooshe around, they can't afford to make the same mistakes with this release. I hope the song itself is a bit fun and poppy, has a bit of life/personality to it. I know they said it's dancey but I hope not too full on and it still retains a bit of their 'pure pop' sound..

Edited September 2, 201212 yr by Encore

#WeWantWhatAboutUsPreview has been all over twitter today.

 

If there actually gonna hold this back till January then that is stupid! FIVE months of hype for one song doesn't mean 'hit'

When I read about the release date I thought that was only for the US, I can't think why the UK has to wait so long?