The next single - About a Girl!

The Sugababes have been performing tracks from the new album at some of their gigs.

About a Girl is to be the second single, we've been told. That will probably mean it comes out at the same time as the album. The tempo is relentlessly up-beat - I get the idea the Americans are planning to market them as fun-loving party girls.

This YouTube video of About a Girl is great quality. As it's performed with a backing track rather than a band, it's probably closer to the sound we'll get on the album.

New album release date

According to Amazon, the new Sugababes' album is due to be released on November 9th. That's a long wait.

It also gives the band time to release a second single alongside the album following the release of Get Sexy on August 31st - artwork here. That's good news because it means there is some stonking good material on the album...

The new video

Here's a copy of the new video posted on YouTube. There are multiple copies on YouTube - most are a little bit fuzzy. This is one of the sharper ones. Popjustice reckons it's the Sugababes' best video for ages. Now that would not be hard. I tend to agree. Neither of the Catfights videos were any good. About You Now wasn't that great - although it was made good by the song. Change was good - it reflected the song. Denial was a wasted opportunity to make a great video. What about the song? It grows on you when you hear it properly. The mixing and the backing track is great - it just doesn't use the girls' vocal timbre well. Here's hoping it does well because I bet there are some great songs on the new album.



PS The perils of YouTube...the earlier posting of the song from YouTube seems to have been blocked. Perhaps someone objected to me saying what I thought!