Any self-respecting pop fan has just got to love Girls Aloud. They've got pop perfection all sewn up in a petite, perky package. Their mix of girl-next-door gorgeousness, catchy choruses, bum-skimming hemlines and cheeky (stop talking about bums now Ed), camp cheerfulness makes us just wanna dance.
So we all know the story: aspiring singers Cheryl Cole (neé Tweedy), Nicola Roberts, Nadine Coyle, Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding get plucked from obscurity to form a girlband hand-picked by the public on Popstars: The Rivals. Rivalry being in the form of pathetic excuse for a boyband One True Voice meant that they were not going to lose. Not in a million years. Not with a debut single that was surprisingly brilliant, anyhow.
2002's Sound of the Underground, which showcased Irish beauty Nadine's tonsil-tickling top notes, was ruthless, dirty, dazzling and a deserved Christmas number one. At this point, they could very easily have slipped into obscurity again but instead the gals just got better... and better.
Twenty one singles, five studio albums, one greatest hits album and two remix albums later and the band don't show any signs of stopping. Favourite sugary pop samples include No Good Advice, Jump, Love Machine, Biology, Something Kinda Ooooh, Sexy! No, No, No... and Untouchable. See, even the titles ooze a kinky brilliance in a French sexy film kindof way.
Ooh la la ladies, you just keep them coming.
