Song of the Year 2000

Song of the Year: 2000 - Sugababes - Overload

Sunday Times March 15th 2009

"...Something about the song, even now, seems to foreshadow subsequent events in the band’s career.

In place of the synchronised polish and dance-routine uniformity of other girl groups, Sugababes came across from the word go as simultaneously hanging as a crew and pulling in different directions. If any song suggests a group of stroppy teenagers ambling down an urban street in search of trouble and mischief, Overload is it. Their choice of collaborators — among them Neneh Cherry’s husband and producer, Cameron McVey — hinted at the savviness they would show in later hook-ups; not least when their single Freak Like Me (on which they took up squatters’ rights in Gary Numan’s Are Friends Electric?) became their first No 1 in 2002..."