GIRLS ALOUD | Life Got Cold

Available on:
x Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground (2003) CD
x Girls Aloud - Life Got Cold (2003) CD-S, cassette

Credits:
Written by Miranda Cooper, Lisa Cowling, Nick Coler and Brian Higgins / Xenomania.
Published by Warner Chappell / Xenomania Music.
Produced by Brian Higgins and Xenomania.
Keyboards and Programming by Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, Nick Coler and Matt Gray.
Guitar by Shawn Lee and Nick Coler.

Single information:
The song was released as a single on 18 August 2003, becoming Girls Aloud's third consecutive single to chart within the top three on the UK and Irish Singles Charts. "Life Got Cold" was the final single to be taken from the original edition of Girls Aloud's debut album, Sound of the Underground.

Peak position: #3 in the UK singles chart.

Notes:
"Life Got Cold" was a late addition to the Sound Of The Underground album - one of a handful of tracks Xenomania added near to the album's completion.

Brian Higgins says that despite his confidence in the song he wasn't prepared to take the idea of a Girls Aloud version seriously until the band had sung their own version, because a track working "has always got to be based on an artist's performance, not the music itself. But they sang is, and they really nailed the melancholic aspect of it, and it sounded beautiful".

The song received attention because of similarities between the guitar riff of "Life Got Cold" and that of the 1995 Oasis hit "Wonderwall". Warner/Chappell Music has since credited Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher.

REVIEWS:
x "Life Got Cold" is great - it's not yer typical shite ballad, it's their whole Council Power! thing given added impetus by its sheer dead-eyed blankness. You've got these five teenagers intoning lines like "we skate as we date as we slowly suffocate" and it's so resigned to the sheer ordinariness of life that it's terrifying. It's "Pretty Vacant" made flesh.
(...) it's teenage boredom encapsulated + the class thing which most GA songs inevitably possess. Yeah, they enjoy the skating and dating and texting, but as anyone who's been a teenager (of any social background) knows, it's all pretty static. Maybe not quite meaningless, but close to it. It's like that Pulp line - "and we dance and drink and screw because there's nothing else to do". The Lex

x Life may get very hot if Girls Aloud's songwriters insist on ripping off Oasis tracks. A good pop song none-the-less but with a very average performance. Unlike 'One True Voice', GA have hooked up with a decent team although at times you do get the impression that they aren't really bothered about what they do. They all look like they wish that they were somewhere else on the record sleeve. WAKE UP Girls and bloody well be thankful for where you are. tourdates.co.uk

x Life Got Cold is a charming ballad that should be the next single. Part of the chorus sounds like it is going to turn into Wonderwall by Oasis, but does a Sting-like about turn and suddenly becomes a sweet but slightly sad pop song. If it was on the new Madonna album, it would have been hailed as a work of genius. BBC

LINKS:
x video on YouTube
x Wikipedia page