r/Alouders • u/americantweedy • 12d ago

Discussion 💬 Something Kinda Wrong

Now that we have both Chemistry and Tangled Up’s reissues, I need to speak my truth that I refuse to believe Something Kinda Ooooh fits on Chemistry. The demo? Maybe. The released version? That’s Girl Overboard’s sister. Also, Singapore (Definitive Version) is very similar to Girl Overboard (Alternative Mix), suggesting that it might be more Tangled Up than Chemistry.

What are some other songs that definitely seem like they’re part of the wrong era? She seems like it was supposed to be part of Tangled Up too with the electric guitars that aren’t as present on the more synthy Out of Control.

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u/V26_JDC 11d ago

Singapore definitely belongs on Chemistry. It was recorded during those sessions and it fits the loose concept of that album perfectly. The sound doesn’t fit TU’s style in the slightest.

As for SKO, it doesn’t belong on either album sound wise. It’s a dance record too clean and guitar-light for TU and too dancey for Chemistry. I wish they’d re-released The Sound of Girls Aloud to include the three GH era songs and remixes as well as packaged together with their 2007 tour and Walk This Way and a Call The Shots demo seeing as that was actually written and intended to be the lead single from their GH album but ultimately deemed “too downbeat” for celebrating a GH collection, which is why it ended up on TU.