GIRLS ALOUD | Live In The Country

Available on:
x Girls Aloud - Out of Control (2008) CD

Credits:
Written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, Matt Gray, Niara Scarlett, Girls Aloud.
Produced by Brian Higgins and Xenomania.
Engineered by Toby Scott & Dan Aslet.
Mixed by Tim Powell & Brian Higgins.
Keyboards & programming: Tim Powell, Brian Higgins, Miranda Cooper.
Guitars: Nick Coler, Jason Resch.
Bass guitar: Kieran Jones.
Mastering engineering: Dick Beetham at 360 Mastering.
Published by Warner Chappell/Xenomania/EMI Music Publishing Ltd.

REVIEWS:

x Live In The Country takes the girls into their beloved Drum 'N Bass territory; a sound they've played with three times prior to this album over the years. It's a spikey song, summoning up thoughts and dreams of living life in the country, away from the hustle and bustle of city life, with the spellbindingly sexy Kimberley Walsh singing about smoking pipes and strawberry shortcake. But then there's the following line, which comes from loveable drunken lout Harding, "every night when I crash you can see it in my face, I look like I'm dead on my feet." Slightly poetic coming from a girl who has, at times, been spotted falling out of taxis across Swinging London Town. adem with an e

x Alex James will love this. As the name may suggest it's absolutely ridiculous, the music is all drum n bass-y while the girls ponder on the idea of life being much better if they live in the country. They want to escape 'the rat race' that makes them 'dead on their feet' by saving money, moving to the country where 'the sky is always blue' and they can have a 'family portrait, a pipe and a dog at my feet'. The lyrics are really great, and then it ends with some farmyard animal sounds. Ace. Karinski

x 'Live In The Country' is the album's token drum'n'bass number (see also: 'I'm Falling', 'Swinging London Town', etc). Its curiously oddball lyric is like a less smug update of Blur's 'Country House': the protagonist is weary of stressful urban living, and longs to 'get rich - live in the country'. The song's opening sounds almost like Burial, and there's the rub: the musical backdrop invokes surroundings as concrete and urban as can be, which frames the lyrical flights of rural fancy as exactly that. No Good Advice

x It's basically the sequel to 'Swinging London Town' - waking up with a hangover and wondering whether things might be better with a couple of cows mooing outside your window. There's a great naivety to the lyrics ("if I live in the country I'll find another way - get rich, live in the country, I know I'll be okay"). It should also be noted that this is a drum 'n' bass track. Basically it's completely ludicrous. Ends with the distant bleat of a sheep. Popjustice