Forgotten second singles: Did these follow-ups deserve better?
officialcharts.comA debut single is something of a delicate art in pop music. But some would say that a second single is even harder to get right.
Not only do you have to live up to the promise of your first release, but you also have to make sure that it aligns with your artistic identity and what you want to say - or maybe your debut single didn't feel right to you, so you then have to go in a completely different direction and start again.
Do you see what we're getting at? Difficult. Check out the follow-up we truly believe deserved more below. Did we miss any? Sound of the Underground was such a game-changing record, it might have seemed like an insurmountable wall for Girls Aloud to climb.
Could they ever live up to a debut single that changed the parameters of British pop music forever? But from the opening dissonance of No Good Advice, one thing became very clear; Cheryl, Nicola, Kimberley, Nadine and Sarah weren't a flash in the pan.
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