I remember watching, even studying, the Sugababes performing Stronger on Top of the Pops, back in 2002. The question on my mind back then was "are these girls for real?" How could they be achieving the harmonies and lilting melodies of this song? The BBC programme TOTP was notorious for its requirement that acts mime their music.
There's another notable feature of Stronger - for it was the first time Keisha's powerful gospel vocals were let loose. And over the years, the song has evolved - in some recent performances Keisha has utterly freaked out, gospel style.
In fact it evolved in November 2002 - as these two recordings from the beginning and end of November show. Whatever the second performance was, it wasn't the recorded version:
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