Early last year DSTP talked about the trio girlband Red Blooded Women and tomorrow they are about to come of age and reveal all on their myspace player. Dontstopthepop was luckily enough to get a early preview of their new material & is in bit of a haze of adoration for the band. They are good. Really really good. I'm getting all those goosebumps I got when I first heard With Every Heartbeat and Can't Get You Out Of My Head. As such just I had to write something about them today. I think they are going to be absolutely huge. But why? Let me break it down....
While sharing the same name of the Kylie song they sound nothing like the Body Language hit single and have produced a sound more akin to something I would describe as "KylieFever"-meets-Linda Bengtzing-meets Ninja-meets ABBA-meets the Eurythmics. Which would actually a rather brilliant village meeting if you think about it. Sadly I doubt thats going to happen so its great to hear Red Blooded Women taking the bull by the horns and reving it up to a heightened plateau that makes me most excited about the bubbling pop scene in the UK...So to the songs!
You Made Your Bed
This is a masterpiece of epic proportions. E.P.I.C. Dark and sublime. You Made Your Bed makes Moroder, Kraftwerk and Daft Punk sound like baby-boys being pushed in the buggies while RBW soar in supersonic electric pink turbo jets in the sky above. You Made Your Bed recoils in a murky, and yet very sexual, celebration of Yazoo, Fisherpsooner, Erasure, Giorgio Moroder, Basement Jazz and of course New Order. Different, unusual and unchallengeable: it is amazing. With the beginning drum-roll underpinning the affair, you find yourself captured by its addictive baseliness and electronic pow-wows with the climax at the end as a manumission of glorious proportions.
Synthesizer
One word. Amazing. This borrows the best of the 1980's as the title suggests. It starts off like the spunky twin sister to Rob Palmer's Addicted To Love but this isn't to say its similar to the multitude of pop songs of the 00's that have reappropriated the 80's like a thief in the night. Synthesizer peruses the decade of shoulder-pads and courses into 2009 leaving 2008 on its knees. It truly is an anthem of the proportions of Prince when he was rather good and Sheena when she was rocking on about her Sugar Walls. Includes the wonderfully dirty lyric "your the bruise I cannot hide, you punish me inside, your the devil and I let you take over my soul for tonight" which to me utterly brings a new light to Goethe's Faust. Kylie would have loved to have this track on X...
Colour Me Dirty
Now we do go back. Colour Me Dirty includes a very very big electronic sample but I won't give it away this evening. This is a clear single. It will make you move robotically while you listen to it regardless whether your at home or waiting for the bus to come. The girls show off the vocals on this song proving they are not just about dreamy baselines and blippy electronic poppies but instead brilliant harmonies. If you loved the brilliant Pussycat Doll moment from their debut Hot Stuff (I want You Back) this will totally arouse your aural organs.
Teardrops
The Ballad. The slowie. As such, it sounds like something else thats on the tip of my tongue. For the moment I'll say it reminds me of Dannii's tragically shelved ballad It Won't Work Out.
Other stuff....
I can't really go into details about other material the girls are working on the moment. However, I've leaned my ear to some the w.i.p stuff and these unmentioned songs are absolutely amazing. If you miss Sugababes of the type that gave us Overloaded, Soul Sound, Round Round, Hole in The Head and Whatever Makes You Happy you'll adore Red Blooded Women. In fact come to think about it, I don't even think they should be compared to the Sugababes. They are actually lot better than *that* other British girlband trio. Chastise me for even putting the two on the same table.....
If you like your pop spiked-up with electronic baselines layered down with brilliant lyrics and some great vocals you'll adore this band. They've raised the bar for girlgroups, nay pop bands in general and for this they deserve everything they get. I take great pleasure in not only knowing about this group ages ago but 'cause of the fact that they set up their own label. They are truly in charge. 2008 has never looked so rosy for pop!
Tomorrow some of these songs should be on their myspace (fingers crossed!) Which you can check out here. I expect big things out of this group & can't wait to see them live!
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FINALLY, THE AMAZING ARRIVAL OF RED BLOODED WOMEN
Yum!
B-Tween do a Q-A with Don't Stop The Pop
B-tween are a very DontStopthePop act. Not only are they members of a girlband but they originated out of another girlband called E.M.M.A (a name created from the first letter in the girls first names like Raen and Clea). After E.M.M.A released three albums, two of the girls left the group and conceived of a new group and have called it B-tween. Its very early days yet but they've already recorded some amazing stuff like the wonderful pop smash Dangerzone and Reaching For The Stars. Martina Ståhl and Alexandra Pettersson clearly have their sights set on the pop girlband crown in Sweden and they are clearly up for the ride. Their 2008 looks to be very exciting. They refuse to stop the pop - indeed the chorus in one of their new songs includes the repeated lyric "We pop until we drop" which to me makes them classic Dont Stop The Pop act...and therefore DSTP had to talk to them!
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"Hello B-Tween!!!!
We have no idea, perhaps Dangerzone!
Perhaps, an early christmas present for pop lovers around the world?
Thats what we are hoping for ans we are trying our best to make it happen!
At the moment, songs like Reaching For The Stars, which includes the sublime lyric “we pop until we drop”, are zooming up my most-played lists on my Ipod. What do you want your album to sound like?
Nice! Mostly pop of course.. We want the sound to match our style and our listeners!
What would say was the best Swedish song released in 2007 (so far)?
We both like Septembers new song "Can't get over it"...
What do you think of Robyn and her making an impact in the UK?
It's great, and we wish her all the best!
Would you ever consider coming over here (the UK or any territory outside Sweden really?)
Of course!! It will make our dream come true!
Well fellow Swedish girl-duo LuckyTwice are huge in Spain. Would you follow suit and release something there? Spanish radio would love Reaching For the Stars and Dangerzone!!
Yeah, we would love to release something in Spain as in every other country.
You’ve both been in the music industry for ages. Would you ever decide to set up your own record company…and what would you call it?
Answer: Actually we haven't thought about it.. But we wish use our experience and it would be fun to work with music in a different way!
What was it like during your E.M.M.A days?
It was the best time in our lifes! E.M.M.A. gave ous a lot of experience and it made us who we are today! Because of the young age we had a lot of responsibility..
What is your favourite E.M.M.A song? Mine has to be Det bästa av allting är du! I can’t understand a word but it gets my butt moving without failure!
Haha, that sounds great! Our favourite E.M.M.A. song must be "Tur och Retur".
What made E.M.M.A go it separate ways? (How did the E.M breakaway from the M.A?)
We consideredthe music in emma, and we decided that we wanted to sing in a more mature way. So we stared a duo together, because we were the oldest in the group, and our voices are different but very suitable togehter.
What is/was your favourite Swedish rival girlband? Excellence? Miio? NG3?
We both think that it was NG3! They had a good sound!
Bitchtime: what Swedish act made you want to raise a middle finger and think “we can do much better than that!”. In a nice way of course!
Hmmm, it must be when Bubbles performed in the Swedish "Eurovision Songcontest".
Ok, back to B-Tween! How did you girls come up with the name…?
Answer: Because we are in a "B-Tween age" (middle age) and we thought it sounds cool =)
Your songs are so camp. In the recording studio, when your playing about with ideas, tracks and beats..have you said “lets make this poppier!” Now I love BwO, Alcazar and the Army of Lovers. But I’ve got a feeling that B-Tween could be a girlband version of BWO/Alcazar. Does that crown fit?
Yes, maybe more like Alcazar than Bwo!
Quickfire section:
Dannii Minogue Or Kylie?
Kylie Minogue
Alcazar or BwO?
Alcazar
Cosmo4 or Bubbles?
Cosmo4
B-Tween or E.M.M.A?
B-Tween, the "E.M.M.A.-days" are over (hehehe)
And lastly is the Dangerzone a hot or dry place?
A hot place, of course ;-)
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P-O-P!-ITS THE DONTSTOPTHEPOP THEME TUNE
Poplovers, forget the lame Kylie tracks that are leaking everywhere! DontStopthePop has finally got its theme tune sorted. Its called P-O-P and the chorus is includes the line "gonna be the hit one, forget the shit ones".
Its by a girlband that came about because of the PopStars show. They sing in English but it is not their first language, they are from a country that speaks German and they've scored a number of hits in the charts. And, it is not The Preluders (know who it is yet?). If you like it tell me and the full version will be with you very soon!
You can check it out on DontStopthePops myspace or simply clicking the link here and above.
Coming up on DSTP: more Robyn? more gossip? more girlbands!
Credits: The Girls (for the song!) and LiL!
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