12.5.12 - New Music - Girls Aloud

Ballads are fine. I understand the need and the want for them, they just usually aren’t my thing. I think that very few of them really stand out, and the rest really seem to blend in and sound the same. Am I alone in this thought?

Girls Aloud are busy promoting their new greatest hits collection (you couldn’t even give us a new album girls?) ‘Ten’. First we heard the pounding “Something New”, and now they’ve given us the powerful second single “Beautiful Cause You Love Me”. With a title like that, you just know what’s coming.

The song begins slowly and softly, and I didn’t think much of it. But, as it grows, I begin to see that this might be going somewhere. It’s got a strength to it, and it is a nice song. Will it go down in history as one of the better ballads of our time? Certainly not, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth our attention in the moment.

“Beautiful Cause You Love Me” isn’t available in the US unfortunately.