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Through wind and rain we got here Now we're flying babe with no fear We've been doing pain for so long But when I stare in your eyes it's all gone Through wind and rain we burn bright Learned to fly through flames and hold tight Been so many ways to go wrong But when I look in your eyes they're all gone And in my dreams it feels Like we are forty stores tall When you're around Ooh we're untouchable And in my dreams it feels Like we aren't ever gonna fall We're safe and sound and we're untouchable It's only real when you're not around I'm walking in the rain The sun goes down, oh oh And only love can save us now I need you here again to show me how oh oh I know that love shouldn't be so hard And sometimes we're standing in the dark But you light up everywhere I go And I know a heart shouldn't beat so hard And sometimes we're Swimming with the sharks But you light up and keep me out the cold And in my dreams it feels Like we are forty stores tall When you're around Ooh we're untouchable And in my dreams it feels Like we aren't ever gonna fall We're safe and sound and we're untouchable It's only real when you're not around The candle in my hand is burning out oh oh I know that love shouldn't be so hard And sometimes we're standing in the dark But you light up everywhere I go And I know a heart shouldn't beat so hard And sometimes we're Swimming with the sharks But you light up and keep me out the cold And in my dreams it feels Like we are forty stores tall When you're around Ooh we're untouchable And in my dreams it feels Like we aren't ever gonna fall We're safe and sound and we're untouchable Whenever you're gone-gone They wait at the door And everything's hurting like before Without any meaning We're just skin and bone Like beautiful robots dancing alone Whenever you're gone-gone They wait at the door And everything's hurting like before Without any meaning We're just skin and bone Like beautiful robots dancing alone And in my dreams it feels Like we are forty stores tall When you're around Ooh we're untouchable And in my dreams it feels Like we aren't ever gonna fall We're safe and sound and we're untouchable |
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The track was finished for Out Of Control knowing that the album's first two singles were likely to be "The Promise" and "The Loving Kind", meaning that there would be time to revisit and perhaps remix the song if it became the third single.
The song is Girls Aloud's longest yet, at a full runtime of 6:45.
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Untouchable is an epic seven-minute electro-thumper which builds slowly, explodes into life, drops out brilliantly, then bursts back into life with a lovely and poignant lyric about "beautiful robots dancing alone". The teeny-boppers may well scratch their heads, but it's one of the classiest and most ambitious pop songs of the year. John Murphy
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The full album version of this is spectacular and the lyric "Without any meaning, we're just skin and bone, like beautiful robots dancing alone" is the closest that pop has come to Whitmanesque poetry in decades. The single is marred, well, by being shorter, but also by some AutoTune madness, and perhaps the most tone-deaf video ever, in which the girls are missiles from outer space who destroy civilization. 8/10 Martin Kavka
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In context of the last Girls Aloud album, the seven-minute version of "Untouchable" was a bold statement, albeit one which never sounded quite as impressive as it thought it was; besides, they'd already pulled off the perfect pop mini-epic with "Biology". That said, hearing "Untouchable" as a single, mercilessly cut to half its running time, the song doesn't sound quite right either. Shorn of its more unwieldly intentions (and given an all-too-abrupt ending, in lieu of the album version's revelatory fade-out), it now seems like Just Another Girls Aloud Single. If nothing else, maybe it'll help shift more copies of Out of Control; unfortunately, in this butchered state, it's the Girls Aloud single that least lives up to its name since "Sound of the Underground". 6/10 Alex Wisgard
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Despite them taking one of Nicola's lines and giving it to Sarah (ugh, why?), the jarring autotune and cutting out the line about the sharks, "Untouchable" works pretty well as a four-minute pop song. The dance touches are cheap, but they give the song a sense of kinetics missing from the moody album mix. The verses seem a touch abrupt at first, but a few listens make the cuts seem natural. If anything, though it seems a little short it makes the album version seem just a shade too long in retrospect. But those flaws are minor, and the climax of Nadine's "beautiful robots" outro remains astonishingly bizarre and the tune is their best in ages. 9/10 Edward Okulicz
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The latest grim chapter in The Decline of Girls Aloud features: cheap, nasty-sounding, trebly synths (obviously someone just pushed the "poppers o'clock" button in the studio, the one marked "FOR THE GAYZ"); some of the most strained singing since the heyday of Geri Halliwell's solo career as the Girls collectively strive, in vain, for a semblance of emotion; and one of the lamest similes you'll hear in this or any year in "like beautiful robots dancing alone", a collection of words which push the buttons of the easily-pleased but which mean precisely nothing together. That this turgid, increasingly pointless group are still considered to be musical standard bearers in 2009 is a sad indictment either of the state of pop or, more likely, the awful taste and lowered standards of their boosters. 2/10 Alex Macpherson
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The New Order-esque "Untouchable" clocks in at 6:44 while soaring to epic heights and is the
indisputable crown jewel of the record. Nadine Coyle hopes for the euphoric highs of love singing, "In my dreams it feels like we are never gonna fall, we're safe and sound. We're untouchable." as synthesizers blissfully pulse alongside gentle guitar riffs. This is disco with heart and a brain. The bridge is pure poetry as Coyle continues, "Without any meaning, we're just skin and bone, like beautiful robots dancing alone". 17
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Not many pop acts could get away with releasing a nigh on 7 minute single, but i think the Girls should with the blissful Untouchable. Mixing incredibly sad lyrics (no one else will ever make a robot dancing alone sound so utterly heartbreaking) with a balearic beat, some gorgeous Nicola vocals and a swirling disco feel. This track won't be for everyone, but if you connect with it then amid the luscious instrumentation lies the heart of a true damaged romantic that longs to beat once more. Stunning. FizzyPop
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(...) it's epic and dreamy and a bit of a diversion from the usual GA pattern while still being recognisably very Girls Aloud. But the issue of how to trim down a song twice the length of an average single without stripping it of all its character is a tricky one.
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Untouchable, clocking in at near 7 minutes, is not only Out Of Control's brightest moment, but
probably the second greatest Girls Aloud song to date. How many mainstream pop groups do you
think could get away with creating a 7 minute song that, come to the end, you wish had gone for longer? Untouchable is as precious musically as it is lyrically. (...)
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