Sunday Girl - Love U More

It’s fair to say that rave / house band Sunscreem have probably done reasonably well out of their 1992 hit Love U More in terms of financial payback. Besides their own chart success it’s been covered by the likes of anti-music provocateurs Steps and Basshunter. Now Sunday Girl has given it a shot.

Remember Sunday Girl? We’ve put a picture of her above with Jarvis Cocker. Sunday Girl is the one on the left, just in case you need help there.

Jade (for that is her real name) was getting quite a lot of action from bloggers last year. No nudge nudge wink wink smiles at that statement please – you knew what we meant, but your deviant sexual brain just couldn’t help itself could it? OK, we admit that in a past blog we may have suggested (i.e. lied) that Sunday Girl got her name from providing weekend sexual satisfaction to the blog community and as a result we’re just as low-level. But please remember that it’s all for your pleasure and entertainment, because let’s face it there’s just too many blogs taking themselves far too seriously and being far too up their own thesaurus referencing backsides aren’t there?

HEY MUSIC BLOGGER – YOUR OPINION IS NO MORE RIGHT THAN ANYONE ELSE’S OK? STOP BEING SO SMUG AND SELF-RIGHTEOUS. THANKS.

But instead of alienating ourselves from our blog-brothers and sisters, (we love them all really, except the Von Pip Express, because he sounds like a second rate Ringo Starr and nobody wants that) let’s talk about the music instead. Now where we?

Yes, Sunday Girl. She had quite some buzz around her didn’t she? Some were predicting her for all the tip lists such as the BBC Sound of 2011, but it didn’t happen. Since then she seems to have disappeared off the tastemaker-radar but now she’s thrusting herself back under it with this cover after a change of labels. If the ‘illustrious’ likes of Steps and Basshunter don’t strike fear into your hearts then things could get potentially worse when you hear that she’s going to be supporting LOLpop disasters LMFAO on their UK tour dates. Don’t worry though music lovers, we’ll be down at the venues with a gun, putting those in attendance out of their misery and pain. It’s the only humane way.

So here’s the twist. Sunday Girl’s version of Love U More is OK. It’s not innovative, it’s certainly not ground-breaking, but a straightforward (rock journos use the word ‘honest’ at this point), club bound rave pop song (you can see it in the video below and hear a remix from RAC in the Soundcloud player). Welcome back Sunday Girl - back on the radar for commercial pop success in 2012 maybe? This song is released for purchase on December 5.

*Footnote. Not everything you read on the internet is true. Especially where it concerns people who through no fault of their own speak like The Beatles. The gun thing just might be though.

Sunday Girl - Love U More (RAC Mix)

Sunday Girl - Photoshop Handsome + Stop Hey (SLOF Man Remix)

With our Ones to Watch 2011 list completed we’re about to start our run down of our Top 10 Albums of 2010, which we’ll be introducing in just a day or so.

But before that, please take a breather for a few moments and enjoy a couple of bits of new material to help round up the year. Starting with this.

We’ve written a couple of times about Sunday Girl before, exclusively announcing her passion for a bit of rough and tumble with music bloggers at the weekend, pork joint from Lidl supermarkets and her hatred for Little Boots which led to her allegations of the synth-geek-lady being a sperm bank for pigs. All of this was a pack of complete lies of course – but at least it made a few of you smile and stopped us regurgitating the same well known facts about Sunday Girl that were already all over the internet.

We recently caught up with Sunday Girl on Ellie Goulding’s recent UK tour. She impressed with her reasonably strong vocal, fashionable look and confidence although not every song fully engaged us on first listen. Next up, before the release of her next single Stop Hey on the sixteenth of January she’s put out a rather pulsing piece of electronic coolness with a cover of Everything Everything’s Photoshop Handsome.

Everything Everything was one act that featured in the 2010 BBC Sound of list and Sunday Girl had been muted in pop circles as being a possible candidate for the 2011 list, rather like Spark (who featured in the Breaking More Waves Ones to Watch list here). This didn’t eventually transpire – the published long list (here) features less melody based pop this year and veers further towards darker atmospheric tones. Maybe music fashion is moving on and Sunday Girl, despite her obvious pedigree in terms of the clothes she wears is a little less on trend musically? Only time and the public will ultimately decide that. For now enjoy this rhythmic slice of sexiness, as well as the now almost obligatory dubstep influenced version of the forthcoming single and keep an eye / ear out for another piece of saucy wiggling electronica on the blog later today before we move on to that albums list and then Christmas.

Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome (Sunday Girl Mix) by Sunday Girl

Sunday Girl - Stop Hey (SLOF MAN remix) by Sunday Girl

Sunday Girl - Stop Hey

Back in the summer we wrote some lies about Sunday Girl. It was our attempt to make some points about arguments put forward by the band Yeasayer concerning the concept of lazy journalism. Read it by clicking here, it makes more sense. Of course the concept of lazy musicians playing the same songs in the same order night after night at gigs is not something we're going to mention. Oh, whoops. But before we get too critical let’s move on with some more facts about the subject of this blog.

1. Sunday Girl actually got her name because on every other Sunday bloggers line up outside her flat dressed as members of the band Blondie and are taken roughly by the lady herself in a variety of sexual positions. They never come back for more, but come Monday you can guarantee there will be some new Sunday Girl blogs out on the interweb.

2. She wishes she was better at knitting.

3. Her favourite meal is a pork loin joint from Lidl.

4. She will be out on tour in the UK with Ellie Goulding and Bright Light Bright Light in late October and November which promises to be a poptastic evening of fun.

Two of these facts are currently not 100% confirmed and were probably made up by a lazy blogger for a cheap laugh.

So here’s the obligatory paragraph where we talk about the new single Stop Hey by Sunday Girl and tell you what we think of it, because that’s part of the reason this blog exists - it's a vehicle for us to arrogantly and forcefully push our opinions out into the world, like it or not. We really are very evil aren't we ?

The phrase that best comes to mind is “Not bad.” Jade’s voice is quite seductive, like a husky Ellie Goulding. There’s a bit around 2.19 where the track breaks down and seems to imitate the All These Things That I’ve Done by The Killers vocally. It sounds very much of the moment, in terms of high value production female fronted synth pop, with a certain classy girl next door charm. We don’t really understand the umbrellas or the step-ladders, but then with pop music and videos do we really need to analyse and understand everything? Sometimes it’s just enough for a video to look good – and this certainly achieves that objective. Watch and listen yourself below. Indie / rock / folk / fans or those who do not like pop can click close now.

Sunday Girl - New Waves @ Breaking More Waves

Here are some facts you may not know about Sunday Girl:

1. Her mother used to work in a spit and sawdust pole dancing club in Vauxhall, London and danced for fifty pence a go. Punters threw the money into a fire bucket by the door.

2. Sunday Girl met Little Boots last year at Stansted airport whilst waiting for an Easy Jet flight to Kos and told her that she was a ‘sperm bank for pigs’.

3. Her father used to be Assistant Head Gardner at Buckingham Palace but had to resign after allegedly growing a small patch of marijuana in a window box.

4. She once got a job as a local government pensions officer but quit after two days because the office she worked in “Smelt of 40 year old men, stale farts and prawn cocktail crisps.”

We post these unknown facts because almost everything that both professional and amateur writers know about Sunday Girl has been said. Yeasayer made the point recently in an interview with The Guardian. “That’s the problem with most journalism today. It’s just lazy. And blogs start quoting each other and there’s a cycle....” They have a point, but if there’s only so much information known about an artist and nothing else is being offered, there’s only so much a writer can report. Besides, not every reader reads every blog. Something written here will be new to someone. The four points above will be new to everyone. So cut and paste away if you want dear fellow blogger, but be careful, because all of the above are lies. Mind you that never stopped The Sun or The Daily Mail letting the facts get in the way of a good story. Allegedly.

So just in case you haven’t yet heard of Sunday Girl, here are some (often repeated) truths.

Sunday Girl is actually one Jade Williams. She is not to be confused with the American metal band of the same name. She ticks a number of boxes in the Breaking More Waves top pop chart, namely by her use of squiggly squelchy sexy synths, girlish vocals (well she is a girl, what do you expect, she’s hardly going to sound like Nick Cave) and a sort of girl next door simplicity that makes her easy to like. Her debut half-decent single Four Floors (video below) bore a slight resemblance to Ellie Goulding without the acoustic guitars. She used to work in a pet shop on a Sunday - hence the name, and has her own blog (here) where she spends a worrying amount of time posting pictures of fluffy animals and pets, rather like a ten year old girl. She’s even threatening to entertain us with the obligatory You Tube cover version, recorded in a pet shop. That will make her a Pet Shop Girl then; Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe you have been warned.

Now here comes the interesting part.

For those of a certain age the songs Gloria and Self Control will bring a wry smile with memories of big hair, shoulder pads and bad dancing at the discotheque - they are songs that perfectly fit the guilty pleasure concept. Sunday Girl has grabbed one of these songs and brought it high kicking and screaming into this decade, vaulting the name of Laura Branigan back into consciousness without immediately losing all credibility. For that we salute her and watch with interest as she develops further. The song streams below, together with a remix by Fenech-Soler and is released on the 26th July.

Sunday Girl - Self Control by Sunday Girl

Sunday Girl - Self Control (Fenech-Soler Remix) by Sunday Girl