GIRLS ALOUD | Fling | |
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LYRICS:
It's just a fling baby fling baby Nothing more than a fling baby, fling baby Just a bit of ding a ling baby, bling baby Don't want relationships So swing baby swing baby It's just a Who's that hottie over there? Big bad boy with big bad hair I can feel instinctively He be riding up on me Who's that with that big bad game Come, give me love, come keep me sane But don't be getting soft on me Just give me something casually So come closer to me 'Cos I wanna feel the heat You're fine and that's OK That's all that you need to be It's just a fling baby fling baby Nothing more than a fling baby, fling baby Just a bit of ding a ling baby, bling baby Don't want relationships So swing baby swing baby It's just a Who's that hottie in the dark Body like a work of art Feel your eyes undressing me Strip me of my modesty Hey you with that sexy smile Come give me lovin' kinky style But don't be talking love and things 'Cos baby I ain't listening So come closer to me 'Cos I wanna feel the heat You're fine and that's OK That's all that you need to be It's just a fling baby fling baby Nothing more than a fling baby, fling baby Just a bit of ding a ling baby, bling baby Don't want relationships So swing baby swing baby It's just a
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INFORMATION:
x appears on: Tangled Up (2007)
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Written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Carla Marie William, Tim Powell, Nick Coler and Moguai.
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The chorus uses a guitar riff lifted from Moguai's "Freaks".
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Where 'Biology' made aloof standoffish comments, the opening salvo of tracks from 'Tangled Up' made Girls Aloud's intentions clearer than ever before: men's only purpose is to be fucked. 'Sexy?No!No!No!' basically said 'Hey, one night stands are AWESOME!', 'Call The Shots' was a weird submissive/kiss-off, and the rest of 'Tangled Up' is basically an advert for casual carnal activity. 'Fling' is where they underline everything that's said elsewhere on the album, with ridiculously bombastic production. Roo
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(...) the utterly barmy futuristic techno-rock hybrid of Fling (...) sounds like Gwen Stefani would had she grown up in Manchester and survived on a diet of fags, Red Bull and vodka. [It] is also notable for mentioning "a bit of ding-a-ling", 35 years after Chuck Berry upset the moral majority. John Murphy
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Fling - on which a Girl Aloud divertingly announces her Chuck Berry-esque desire for "a bit of ding-a-ling" - offers a kind of nuclear-powered punk-funk that leaves virtually every NME-sponsored early 80s revivalist looking hopelessly pallid. Alexis Petridis
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'Fling' is sort of like 'Wake Me Up' from the year 2012. Popjustice
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(...) for the pissed-up girls roaming city streets coatless and shag-hungry on a Saturday night, there is 'Fling' - a rock-riffed call-to-arms which features the righteously squawked chorus, 'It's just a fling baby, a bit of ding-a-ling baby, bling baby'. Time Out London
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The last Girls Aloud album, Chemistry, came with an excellent bonus disc of Christmas songs (...) stuffed with goodwill and mild naughtiness of the "pull a cracker" variety. They felt, somehow, like the most English things the Girls had ever done, at least until "Fling", from the new record. "Just a fling baby, fling baby - ding-a-ling baby!" - on paper these lyrics make you cringe but they're sung with music hall relish: this is one of the band's spiciest and strongest vocal performances, a brilliant predatory holler. The theme - inasmuch as you can pin Miranda Cooper lyrics down to a theme - is casual pick-ups, and the simple joy of the record is how it keeps shifting gears from generic Ritzy's disco to a turbocharged new-wave mosh, catching you unawares with the aggression as the Girls spot a catch and pile onto the metaphorical dancefloor. (...) this is an awesome combination of seaside postcard brassiness and binge-drink-Britain shamelessness. Tom Ewing
(...) Miranda Cooper's lyrics are sometimes hard to fathom but it seems to be a song that turns the tabloid/cultural victims, pretty girls who go to nightclubs to hook footballers, into cultural agents. Which is a pompous way of saying that once again Girls Aloud are voices of new social groups.
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