Molayem ART Magazine International Art Magazine
Girls Aloud: (l-r) Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Sarah Harding, Nadine Coyle and Nicola Roberts. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian
Twenty years since their debut single Sound of the Underground, we assess the ITV talent show winners’ tracks
Ballads were seldom Girls Aloud’s forte – they were better at songs with bolshie attitudes, which seemed to suit their personalities – but No Regrets is the exception that proves the rule, dispensing with the usual pop-ballad cliches in favour of a tinny vintage drum machine, a French chanson-inspired melody and I Will Survive strings.
