GIRLS ALOUD | Hoxton Heroes | |
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LYRICS:
You took some acid back in '99 You said it blew your mind And it helped you write rhymes So you bought a trilby and a cheap guitar You thought you'd be a star It didn't get you that far I don't know your name You're just another band with a different game And you're all the same You said you played at Reading Then you chart at fifty-seven You're off your face like you're number one How many tracks have you sold? Mmmmm, 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, get a sound of your own You only follow Sinatra 'Cos you, you couldn't get into Rada So let's try a little bit harder 'Cos you need more than jeans and a parka yeah yeah 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, get a sound of your own You can make history If you just stayed off the whiskey And yeah you might just look like a rock star But how much soul did it cost ya, cost ya? |
INFORMATION:
x appears on: Can't Speak French (2008) CD 2
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Written by Girls Aloud & Xenomania.
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"Hoxton Heroes" is a b-side of "Can't Speak French", released on March 17, 2008.
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It was first mentioned in an interview with The Guardian. Miranda Cooper (from Xenomania) said: "We've written a song called Hoxton Hero. Me and the girls got on an amazing rant, taking the piss out of the whole indie scene". Kimberley Walsh (from Girls Aloud) stated: "They say we're a manufactured band, but they're just as manufactured."
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"Hoxton Heroes" was considered "too controversial" to be included in Tangled Up and was dropped from the album.
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In this song, Girls Aloud verbally eviscerate some conceited British indie musician, tearing into his privileged background, poor wardrobe, pathetic chart
placements, and utter lack of tunes. In other words, it sounds like a Pop Justice blog post set to a particularly heavy Xenomania track. There's just something
so perfect about this -- in part, it's because it's fun to hear them rip into these sort of dull, obnoxious post-Coldplay types, even if it's done on entirely shallow
and materialistic terms. Mostly, though, I just love that they're putting out a song so squarely aimed at their most rabid fans on the internet. Matthew Perpetua
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They only did it because they know they have a large 'indie' following, it's not like they did a track trashing how regee's been stagnent for the past decade, is it?
The band know they're a parody of themselves which is part of the magic.
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Over at the NME messageboards, 'ver kids' are up in arms because (brace yourself) the title is lifted from the lyrics of an indie record.
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