February 2010
The girls looked gorgeous in the 4Music Special: Under the Skin tonight, where they were interviewed and videos related to what they were talking about showed. Here is a list of videos shown:
Sugababes – Get Sexy
Ne-Yo – Closer
Rihanna – Take a Bow
JLS – Beat Again
Amelle & Tinchy – Never Leave You
Groove Armada – Song 4 Mutya
Sugababes – Overload
Atomic Kitten – Whole Again
Sugababes – Freak Like Me
Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
Take That – Rule the World
Sugababes – Easy
Sugababes – About You Now
Heidi said that signing to Roc Nation was, ‘the best thing that has ever happened to us!’ The girls recorded the new album next door to Rihanna in the same studio. Keisha said,
‘When we were choosing our favourite tracks to go on the album, we’d sometimes be like ‘I’m not too sure about this one…’ and the managers would be like ‘Well, Rihanna likes it!”. Some of their favourite Rihanna songs are Breakin’ Dishes, Take a Bow and Disturbia. They also heard Alexandra Burke’s new single, who won X Factor in 2008 in the UK, which they think is really good. They all backed Laura White in the X Factor, and would be happy either way in the final, whether JLS won or whether Alexandra won.
They also talked about Heidi being in Atomic Kitten, which was actually 11 years ago when she was 15. She sang most of the stuff from the band anyways, so she felt she might as well take the solo contract when she was offered one. She also talked about when she auditioned for the Sugababes. She was shopping with her mum in Liverpool City Center when she got a phonecall from the Sugababes manager telling her they want her to come to audition in London the next day for the Sugababes because one of the members had quit. Heidi went and bought One Touch straight away and learnt most of the songs that night. When she went to the audition, Keisha and Mutya made a now-funny dance routine that she had to dance, and she also had to sing with the two Babes, and she was shaking!
Keisha’s fear of Bobby Davro’s name and dreadlocks also came into the conversation! Her brother Shane used to say ‘Bobby Davro!’ to her, and she used to think he was trying to scare her with the name, and she used to start shaking if she heard it! To this day, she can’t say his name! The girls currently like La Roux, Mr Hudson and Kings of Leon.
The girls were approached by Take That for the tour! They loved performing in front of 1000s of screaming women on the tour, and loved being able to be three of those screaming women watching the show most nights too! They rubbished the fact that Girls Aloud are rivals. They loved The Promise apart from Keisha, whose favourite was Sound of the Underground! Funnily, Britney Spears’ Toxic was played after the girls talked about the infamous fight Heidi and Keisha had over it, which lead to Irish gigs being cancelled and not talking for 2 or 3 weeks!
