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Showing posts with label work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label work. Show all posts

Monday, 19 December 2011

Introducing... From Above - Not The Same Girl


They're a UK group with the backing of a bonafide US music-mogul. New girl band From Above, who even have their own MTV show, are the latest effort from Mathew Knowles (Beyonce's Dad!) and are looking to stride straight into a scene which with the Little Mix X Factor win, is primed for a host of exciting new girl groups. With Knowles previous experience managing Destiny's Child, you imagine he'd know a thing or two about making From Above a success.

Their debut single Not The Same Girl taps right into the R&B/Dance market which has become such a domineering force in pop music this year - it's feisty, forceful, empowered, and particularly, very Pussycat Dolls.

For those that have missed said group's girl-power anthems since Nicole went solo, Not The Same Girl is a refreshing blast from the past, but one that is intuitively keyed into the sound of 'now'. Of all the girl bands looking to make it big right now, Not The Same Girl sounds the most like a ready-made chart hit.

Lookswise, the girls are closer to the likes of the Sugababes - like the 'babes, From Above feel like a more grown-up, mature group; one that isn't looking to speak down to its audience, or dress up their music with rose-tinted glasses.

The band's album Breaking From Above is chock-full of glossy girl power anthems courtesy of producers previously behind the likes of Jason Derulo and Chris Brown - expect their material to be supersized, US style.

Even just looking at the track titles: Pink Stilettos, Work, Live Your Life; female empowerment is the key theme, these are girls doing it for themselves, and like Beyonce herself said, looking to run the world.

Not The Same Girl is released on the 22nd January. The album Breaking From Above is available to download on iTunes now.

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

You know you gotta work... The Saturdays in an office


Now this looks like a rather nice place to work, doesn't it? Chic modernist design, some colourful painting on the walls and plenty of space - the perfect office space for all your needs really.

Not that we'd get much done if the Saturdays worked there too though. We'd be too distracted by how super-smart and gorgeous they all look in this brilliant photo from the new Notorious video. AOL has a number of the shots and they all look rather exciting - this is definitely our favourite one though.

What else can we see here? Well, the girls show a remarkable knack at synchronised phone conversations - we imagine they're all dealing with some very important business inquiries right at the moment this photo was taken.

And to state the obvious, the girls are clearly all big fans of Apple Macbooks - brilliant bit of product placement there.

We're not sure how this photo might fit into the context of the teaser videos we saw earlier this week with the girls dancing in a club, but we imagine it follows a whole 'good girls working hard in the office go down the local discotech to party it up'. Amazing.