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Popjustice: A positive review of Cheryl Cole's 'Fight For This Love'.

 

How odd, but how brilliant to be reviewing a Cheryl Cole single. It feels wrong but surprisingly right.

 

So here's the thing to get out of the way: 'Fight For This Love' is not a Girls Aloud single. It's a fresh-sounding modern pop record, but it's not Girls Aloud. It's not supposed to be Girls Aloud. Brian Higgins has talked of Xenomania's big flashpoint at the start of the decade coming as a reaction to the R&B-styled pop tuneage that dominated the charts and was, at that point, 'the sound of pop'. 'Fight For This Love' is, if anything, almost an 'anti-Xenomania' record - Cheryl Colo's debut solo single is an R&B-styled pop tune. Most significantly, very importantly for Cheryl's first solo tune outside Girls Aloud (but also, from the way it sounds, quite unselfconsciously) 'Fight For This Love' is very definitely not just a Girls Aloud single with one person singing it.

 

Anyone thinking of doing a Shirley Valentine after hearing about Leona's new single (general idea: I'm not picking up your socks any more, I'm off) might have faith restored by 'Fight For This Love' with its belief that "anything that's worth having, sure enough worth fighting for, quitting's out of the question, when it gets tough gotta fight some more" and a fairly clear chorus message: "we gotta fight (fight), fight (fight) fight for this love". In spirit it's either a lot less or a lot more mature than the Leona track; either way it's f***ing brilliant. It's one of those songs you can have on repeat for an hour and a half without getting bored.

 

One thing that hits you is - well, is this really what Cheryl sounds like? Vocally it's a big surprise. It's so usual to hear Cheryl through the Xenomania filter. As it turns out, she sounds really great - strong, confident, direct. Like a proper pop singer. We suppose being a member of a pop group for the best part of a decade should have been a fairly strong hint re the whole 'proper pop singer' thing but you know how it is with members of bands - they're just members of bands until, er, they're not any more. (This paragraph might need a bit of work - Ed)

 

Like some of the best pop tunes 'Fight For This Love' is a very simple affair without bells, whistles or kitchen sinks, but there's more going on than is initially obvious and the production's certainly a cut above. The song doesn't start with a big fanfare - it eases itself into view and suddenly Cheryl's singing and the song's started - and it ends not with a bang but with a gradual fade. It's a sleek, powerful production and while we were walking across a bridge yesterday evening it was unexpectedly this, not the Leona single, that we found rattling around in our head. GET THE CHAMPAGNE OUT POLYDOR, IT PASSES THE BRIDGE TEST.

 

Worst Line/Best Line

» "Every day ain't gonna be no picnic, love ain't no walk in the park" (outdoor pursuit double negativeometer explodes)

» "Just know that united we stand alone" (amazing)

 

The Best Four Motoring References In This Tune

» "Makes it hard to know which road to go down"

» "Is it better is it worse are we sitting in reverse?"

» "What I don't wanna do is crash"

» "We've been driving so fast we just need to slow down"

 

Additional Data

» There's a breakdown clap along bit after the middle eight. Oh yes.

» The middle eight is the best bit.

» This would be a good Whitney track - in fact at times there's a bit of a Whitneyish tone to Cheryl's voice.

» If this song was walking down the street, they - and by 'they' we mean general passers-by - would say 'hey sexy'. Sadly the street in question would be one outside a mental hospital following a large-scale breakout because in real life people in total control of their mental faculties do not pass people in the street and say 'hey sexy' to them.

» It's better than all Thom Yorke solo material ever.

 

http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option...&Itemid=206

 

The attached picture is so amazing! Sounds like its going to be pretty good, I am going to die waiting for Monday to come!

AMAZING review, I'm so confident it will sound great ! I'm already addicted to the demo anyway lol.

 

And here is the pic from the PJ review :

 

http://www.popjustice.com/images/stories/j/cherylsolo.jpg

 

As far as I know, it's not from a GA pic, so probably from the shoot for her album :wub:

 

 

CONFIRMED release is 19th of October, one week before the album !

Edited by Bert for Lashes

Sounds brilliant from that review! :o
That pic looks nice. So excited to hear the final version!
I'm in love with the demo and only listened to it twice, can't wait to hear her version
AAAHHH! The song (well the demo at least) samples something! I can't quite put my finger on what though! AARGGHHH!!

Ahh I'm so in love with the demo! I hope the final version's not much different. :wub:

[apart from it'll have Cheryl's vocals obviously! :P]

I'm strangely excited about this, and interested to see what the album's going to be like. I'm hoping above all that it won't be in the same vein as most of Girls Aloud's stuff but retain the vital poppy element.
not too long til we hear it now, setting my alarm for 7.50am :dance:
I'm getting up early too :)

Edited by Chris.

Ooh, I just remember, we have a late start at school, so I too will be able to hear the sexiness :wub:

 

I hope someone uploads a rip from the podcast :kink:

 

Oh, and if a good quality link arises, then please send it my way :)

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