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Girl group take a swipe at 'Hoxton trendies' on single

February 7, 2008 | 48 Comments
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Girls Aloud's B-side for new single 'Can't Speak French' attacks London "indie kids" and "scenesters" that hang around Hoxton and Primrose Hill – areas made famous by celebs such as Sadie Frost and Peaches Geldof.

The track 'Hoxton Heroes' will be released on March 17, but a snippet of the song can be heard now on the group's MySpace page.

Some lyrics from the song include:

“You’re off your face like you’re no one/How many tracks have sold hmm none/Walk round the place like you’re number one/So why don’t you write a tune that we can hum/Just cos your dad knew the Rolling Stones/ You’ve got the Primrose set in your cell phone/ Don’t kid yourself you’re an indie clone/We’ve seen it before…”

The five-piece’s track was apparently deemed too controversial by their record label to be included on the girls’ album.

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Libsfan1

Feb 7, 2008

Got to admit they have a point.... I wonder who they're talking about though. Reading those lyrics I reckon it's The Kooks...

What does everyone else think?

orangeiod

Feb 7, 2008

"So why donâ€™t you write a tune that we can hum"

Ironic.

Why dont YOU write a tune that we can hum. By write, i mean actually write (i.e.yourself). not pay someone else to write it for you and then earn hundreds off that same track which you stole off someone else.

i_once_wrote_for_this_rag

Feb 7, 2008

Face it Liberscenesters- there are too many vapid copies of a musical movement that once briefly showed promise.
All you skinny jeaned, trilby-wearing twerps need to remove your heads from your arses and stop idolising the current crop of tripe. Oh, and Girls Aloud are a manufactured band?? Unlike the Kooks, Razorlight, the Libs right? Losers.

Libsfan1

Feb 7, 2008

Hey Oscar Wilde or TechnodanceaphobicGG or whatever you're called, or a so called 'talentless whores' they've produced some pretty damn good singles and managed to throw off the mantle of winning a TV talent show better than anyone else. That takes some talent.

j113t

Feb 7, 2008

Spot on, although they convey "their" point in a crude manner. Most indie bands are bland as can be, and indistiguishable between one another. Although I'm sure no-one wants to admit it, but if you actually listened to Girls Alouds music, the song- writing is incredibly good. Most tracks, blur genres and styles two times or more - fair enough the vocals can be painfully lacklustre, but you get something nice to look at while listening to song-writers who are determined to push the boundaries whilst maintaining pop sensibilities.

Indie_cindy123456

Feb 7, 2008

hahaha.
Lyrical genious there.
"How many tracks have sold hmm none/Walk round the place like youâ€™re number one"
haha,
I think the real reason
That the record company didnt want it on the album
It that it is poor.
"hoxton heroes"
Hadouken anyone.

C-P-M

Feb 7, 2008

Libsfan1 - 'Hoxton Hero' is part of 'That Boy That Girl', by Hadouken - which is pretty much taking the piss outa the same lot.

"That boys a Hoxton Hero,
skinny fit jeans and dressed in pink,
how he dresses I care zero,
as long as he don't steal my drink.

That girls an Indie Cindy,
Lego haircut and polka-dot dress,
I don't care if she thinks she's indie,
how she's different is anyones guess."

alexelworthy

Feb 7, 2008

why steal the title from a hadouken! song?
you sad sad under-acheiving bunch of whelks.
girls aloud really are awful.

AlisoonFersure

Feb 7, 2008

Girls Aloud cant even sing to the tune of their song
they dont write it thierselfs either
all thats happed is some guy thought
'oh why dont we put some tarts the gither nd TRY to teach them to sing and dance, we'll sell millions of records because of stupid guys that facie them'
and they say 'indie clone' have they looked at theirself
they all practically dress the same and wear the same make up and talk at the same time !

alexelworthy

Feb 7, 2008

to add to that

they're probably just jealous because all their royalties come from smash hits and 10 year old girls buying pop party 5

Kay123x

Feb 7, 2008

and they are not clones? those bimbos are clones of eachother.

saraah-x

Feb 7, 2008

Hoxton heroes?
Someones copying off Hadouken!...
And if they hate indie so much why was Sarah Harding going out with Alex Turner?

mardybumrocky

Feb 7, 2008

hmmm hoxton hero...

now where have I heard that before?

Flukus07

Feb 7, 2008

easy! do girls aloud realise that they weren't good enough to make it on they're own, so they had to go on a talent show to make it. these indie bands have written they're own music and become succesful on they're own which means they are a ridiculous amount more talented than girls aloud. fact. lets just see whose songs are remembered in 10, 20 years time. i think deep down you know the answer girls. sorry, your shit.

liyxam1

Feb 7, 2008

Hahahaha

Looks like all you indie kids better jump ship and follow another scene cos you're getting dissed by a bunch of girls and that, my razorlight-loving friends is not cool.

FiaFrontalBum

Feb 7, 2008

Woah thats a bit of a generalisation. Ive just listened to 'Hoxton Hero' its shit. All of Girls Aloud's stuff sounds the same altohugh some of it is alright. But being Indie is wayyy better than being a group of plastic WAGs who look like they've just been tangoed.

Jimmi

Feb 7, 2008

It's funny that first of all the name of the song is stolen from a line out of a Hadouken! song. Also that they don't write their own music and they were created by a fucking tv show. Also making fun of scenesters has now become a scene in music writing so technically they are just jumping onto a new band wagon.

couchy10

Feb 7, 2008

erm like iv heard this title before, in lyrics of an actual song, Hadouken - That Boy That Girl, mentions hoxton heroes lol

so yer, why attack indie bands, cus tbh, when ur able to write ur own songs, then start disrespectin others yh

oh btw cheryl, dnt b too upset bout ashley, i hear hris moyles can keep u safe =]
x

jakill91

Feb 7, 2008

It's been done before, and not just with the 'indie' scene.
'Indie' (the word itself is beginning to annoy me) is what's popular at the moment, and Girls Aloud are 'speaking out' as it were. No one complained when The Cribs or Hadouken! (whose phrase 'Hoxton Hero' is claimed by GA as though it were their own) did it, yet it's as if there's something wrong with Girls Aloud doing it.
They have some catchy tunes. I wouldn't buy them, but I enjoy listening to them more than I do than the latest release from The Pigeon Detectives or The Wombats.

heatherlou

Feb 7, 2008

Haha,
original song title there.

*rolls eyes*

Indietimmy

Feb 7, 2008

why oh why do girls aloud consider themselves as an original band on some pedestal somehow superior to indie bands. and why oh why do people associate razorlight and the kooks with indie kids. theyre shit, i like indie becuase it has genuinely exciting and original music - most of which girls aloud will never discover because they are ignorant and too busy writing mundane pop songs for 10 year old girls.

AdamShanklyUK

Feb 7, 2008

I like these lyrics. They've inspired me to write some lyrics about girls nowadays, and how all they seem to want to do is go out with footballers just because they have loads of money. I call it 'Ashley Cole' (written to the tune of D.I.S.C.O.)

She is W, Wanting money
She is A, Airhead monkey
She is G, Getting married to
Ashely Coooooooooooooooole

Ashley, Ashley Cole
Ashley, Ashley Cole

Hollythewombat

Feb 7, 2008

omg
they nicked the name of the song from a hadouken song
they cant even have there own ideas!
that just makes me laugh!

sammightsay

Feb 7, 2008

I Have to agree with girls allowed here. The indie scene has become over saturated and become a cliche.
In 10 or 20 years times girls aloud songs will still be played on the radio as they have some classic pop records which have sold millions.They have been around for about 7 years now and many indie bands have come and gone in that time.Bands like the horrors wombats the cribs The Pigeon Detectives , the list could go on , barely have any hits let alone have them rememberd in 10 years time.
There are alot of talented bands out there like the artic monkeys bloc party and the editors to name a few, who are making intelligent creative music but most are just band wagon tag alongs.
This is not a new thing the same thing happened with brit pop. We all remember oasis and blur but who listens to mens wear, sleeper or shed 7 now.
Be honest with yourselfs todays indie heros will be tomorrows cd collections.
i mean who thinks starsalior and toploader are still cool?

zoo-niverse

Feb 7, 2008

yeah coz they are making lots of sense...attacking indie bands but then using their lyrics as a title "'Hoxton Heroes' yeah im sure HADOUKEN never came up with that one....ew what r they. if any1 shud b slagged off it shud b the girls aloud they give women a BAD name

kanejb

Feb 7, 2008

they are rubbish anyway and its not like the indie bands have sold 1 single they have sold loads
idiots

garethgoape

Feb 7, 2008

Face it, Hadouken songs won't still be played in 10 or 20 years time. In fact they'll be lucky to still be played in 12 month's time.

Girls Aloud don't write their own songs so it is a bit rich for them to have a go at others who do, but then Elvis Presley never wrote anything and it never did him any harm.

Girls Aloud are better than most miserable Indie bands who write their own songs because they have a team of writers and a team of producers. Consequently most of their albums are really diverse and full of interesting ideas and sounds. Meanwhile I can't tell one Kooks song from another.

It's the same with American sitcoms. They have a massive team of writers (when they're not on strike!) so they can come up with a lot more ideas than just one sad miserable person scribbling wimpy lyrics in their bedsit.

I don't think an Indie boy (or girl) writing their own lyrics makes them more talented than Girls Aloud. I think it makes them more restricted and have less creativity. Of today's modern songwriters, I think only Damon Albarn has served up a diverse range of material.

Incidentally, listen to 'London's Swinging' by Girls Aloud and imagine Klaxons covering it. Or 'Black Jacks' covered by Artic Monkeys. They're great catchy songs, as good as any by your Indie heroes.

Steveweiser

Feb 7, 2008

Quite a lot of people seem to be missing the point of this song. Girls Aloud aren't attacking the entire scene, but certain people in it, like Doherty, Moss, The Kooks and other critics who look down on them, saying that indie is "real music" and Girls Aloud are fake. If anything, a lot of indie these days is faker than pop music, and I'd much rather listen to Girls Aloud than uninspired pap by the likes of The Kooks, The Pigeon Detectives and The Wombats.

just_josh

Feb 7, 2008

to be honest yeah they are copying hadouken! lyrics and cribs ideas but no more than the bands metioned
ie kooks copying razorlight
pigeon detectives copying kaiser chiefs
everyone copying arctic monkeys

graceface2

Feb 7, 2008

i think anyone who supports girls aloud on this should not be on nme because nme is about indie music not machanicaly produced pop bands made for brain washing children into thinking they could be famous like this someday. :/

alan_dale

Feb 8, 2008

Girls Aloud do actually co-write some (but not all) of their songs. But it seems a bit odd for them to be slamming a second rate indie band like Hadouken... Who are they addressing? There must be zero cross-over between the two acts.

nutteronabus

Feb 8, 2008

To be honest, they have a point. They're by no means guilt-free of it themselves, but the real irony is that most of the stuff that's labeled as 'indie' is only popular because the NME tells people to like it. It's basically Smash Hits for the 'I don't want to listen to your generic music, so I'm going to listen to someone else's' crowd.

It seems that all you need to do in an indie band these days is be able to play a barre chord (which in turn means you can play three barre chords), and shout over the top of it. That's hardly talent.

Spooke

Feb 8, 2008

indie music has no sense of humour.

the_royal_wee

Feb 8, 2008

they're right. i just binned my trilby and got a symmetrical haircut.

lipgloss

Feb 8, 2008

stop getting your skinny jeans in a twist!...

if girls aloud are as 'unimportant' as people are saying they are, then what does it matter... its a b-side for gods sake.

and as for the comment "i think anyone who supports girls aloud on this should not be on nme"...
basically you mean if people don't think the same as you then there opinion isn't worth anything.

girls aloud may be a result of a reality show (manufactured) but the reason there are so many un-original, bland, copy-cat indie bands on the pages of nme is because record companies are looking for the next libertines or arctic monkeys, which in essence means every 'genre' eventually becomes manufactured.

surely it is a good thing that a 'pop' band have opinions, are out-spoken and have some charachter?

pictobug

Feb 9, 2008

Their comments would have some validity.....if they hadn't come from a manufactured bunch of wags who couldn't write a tune if their hair extensions depended on it.

tommiib

Feb 10, 2008

To be honest, music is music.
Listen to what you think sounds good.
Just don't let yourself be told what to listen to.

Even if 'indie' music is turning is no longer indie music
there's always gunna be talented musicians out there.
Why even fight about it?
It's not gunna change anything anyway.
Son't listen to what you don't like & it'll soon disapear
(:

lottie.

Feb 10, 2008

i think people can accept the piss being taken if like it dont seem to serious..but like idk

these air heads are doing it to get the press coverage...does no one think its jst a publicity stunt?? and its worked!!!!

lottie.

Feb 10, 2008

i think people can accept the piss being taken if like it dont seem to serious..but like idk

these air heads are doing it to get the press coverage...does no one think its jst a publicity stunt?? and its worked!!!!

?AreYouExperienced?

Feb 11, 2008

They have a good point. When was Indie ever innovative? Any pioneering bands? Pushing frontiers of music? Did any of this ever happen? No, all we have is bands with only basic musical talent making it to the bigtime way too soon. Pete Doherty is a complete prick and his music is shit. The Enemy got signed after only two months of playing music (something just isn't right here) and they're song are all the same.

Time to get the hint and make something new, fresh and really pushing the boundaries of musical ability. Music died in the mid 90s man *sobs*

rickthesick

Feb 12, 2008

has someone been listening to subliminal girls

"got my epiphone dot cause i'm so fuckin indie,
got my pork pie hat to cover up my lack of style,
got indie by numbers, everything's on vinyl,
we love pete he's so fuckin deep
and the mars volta, they're the new pink floyd"

...and didn't parka do something recently along the same lines

the best thing is no one will admit these songs are about them, it's always about some other idiot that's even more of an indie wannabie

samjest1990

Feb 13, 2008

I can't help but feel they're 'out to impress our bovine bovine public'
To be honest how many bands around now are truely 'original' and not a 'clone' - err Arcade Fire and that's about it. Just enjoy what you like and don't care what others think.

Ass_face

Feb 21, 2008

If you think about it its not that surprising since girls aloud have nothin to do since they do not write their music and are totaly manufactured.
Maybe a band like Razorlight should right a song about
Mannufactured, annoyingly plastic , wannabe wag girl bands.

adam:

Mar 1, 2008

haha brilliant..
i think Girls Aloud have just confirmed legendary status!!

Indie By Nature

Mar 3, 2008

Who the hell do they think they are i am indie and i love indie music i think they should listen to themselves then they will realise that they are being hippocrits and they should sort their own problems out before trying to pry out another genre of music's

grittz_rip

Mar 25, 2008

uh-uh...seems all the indie limeys have got their skinny jeans in a twist! sorry but have a little bit of humour. girls aloud may be manufactured...but so are half the indie bands nowadays! Girls Aloud are just saying what half the people think. There's too much "scouting for girls" and "kooks" stuff nowadays. They may not be the best in the world, but least they are singing the truth. Now just you indie limeys go down and hang around with "the Primrose set" =)

bchris

Feb 3, 2009

Why can't they take the pi*s out of these kids that listen to hip hop and get influenced thinking there gansters. Girls aloud are talentless, got found on pop idol, DONT wrtite there own music and can't sing. HA

GGJuicebox

Sep 30, 2009

orangeiod, i like the way you suck.seeing as girls aloud were discoverd on a talent show, it therefore suggests that they in fact do have a lot of talent. alson, one of girls aloud's songs was voted 2007's most hummable tune.