Girls Can't Catch Explain Multitasking
This, ladies and gentlemen, is Girls Can't Catch (left-to-right: Daizy, Phoebe and Jess): Girls Can't Catch, this is ChartBlog.
You may already know Phoebe from such television shows as The X Factor, but she's put all that behind her now, in order to become one third of a kind of Sugababes-junior, set up to rival the Saturdays' mini-Girls Aloud, or something.
These comparisons are entirely based on the number of people in each band, you understand. Maths is a more definite science than music.
Their debut single 'Keep Your Head Up' is a very nowadays sort of pop song, in that it sounds not unlike 'Up', remixed in a '80s style by La Roux, with some speedy rhythmic Flo Rida-style tongue-twisters in the verses. And if you think that's a lot of name-dropping for just two short paragraphs, you're right, but these are all plus points.
(Here's the video, in which the girls face off against some local toughs for a croquet match in a junkyard. If there is a hidden meaning to this, it's VERY well hidden.)
Anyway, they're probably going to be around for a bit, so it seems a good idea to get to know them as people, find out what they are all about. For example, are they feminists? Are they actually confused woman-hating feminist-chauvinists? What makes them the flag-holders for what girls can or cannot do, hmm? Are they experts?Are they secretly men in disguise, seeking to bring about the downfall of womankind by belittling their ability to pluck a tennis ball out of the air?
Well, no, obviosly not. But I did chat to Phoebe on the phone recently, and here's what we talked about instead.
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ChartBlog: Can you see a point, between right now and the very near future, where you get so tired of answering questions about your band's name that one of you has a massive diva strop?
Phoebe: Ohh, we're close to it! No, d'you know what, we were asking for it, weren't we? We didn't want to be called something typical, like a typical girlband name. We wanted to be a bit different, a bit weird. We came up with loads of names, like we were literally going to be called the 11:59s, until the last minute.*
ChartBlog: And, as a new girl band, do you get a lot of people saying you're all 'feisty', 'frisky' or 'foxy'?
Phoebe: [Thinks] No-one says we're 'foxy' and stuff. No-one's really called us anything! I mean we are a bit feisty, we're a bit out-there...we're more fed up of people throwing stuff at us to see if we can catch.
ChartBlog: Ah, then you are not going to enjoy this literal question either, sorry. With the advent of the she-pee, is there now ANYTHING that boys can do that girls cannot do?
Phoebe: [LONG think] No, I don't believe so. I think that...basically our name, we're taking the mick, like it's ironic, like we're saying that girls CAN catch, and girls can do anything they want to, if they put their minds to it, so it's like a play on words. We actually did challenges recently, Jess did Girls Can't DJ, I did Girls Can't Graffiti and Daizy did Girls Can't Rock Climb, and we proved that we can do those things. So it's a cool name. There's so many things you can do with it.
ChartBlog: As a man, I have difficulty understanding how multitasking works. Can you explain it to me without making it sound like, yes, you're doing three things at the same time, only you're not doing any of them very well?
Phoebe: OK, for an example, if you were on your computer, and I was trying to talk to you about something really important, you wouldn't be responding to me correctly, you'd be like [distracted] "...yeah ...yeah". You can't do more than one thing at once, you don't concentrate enough. Does that make sense?
ChartBlog: So if I came to you with a problem, something I was really upset about, you'd be quite happy typing an email, while I bared my soul?
Phoebe: Yeah!
ChartBlog: Cos that just seems rude.
Phoebe: Yeah, but girls can do it, cos they can multitask.
ChartBlog: So what we're saying is that girls are ruder than boys.
Phoebe: I think that that's not true.
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And there we have it. Conclusive proof. Now if only we could be sure what it is proof of...
Download: Out now
CD Released: August 3rd
www.girlscantcatch.com
Girls Can't Catch present The 5:19 Show
(Fraser McAlpine)
*In years to come, as I look back over a very long spell of interviewing pop stars for a living, I think my greatest regret - greater than annoying Kelly Jones from Stereophonics, greater than falling apart in front of Ronan Keating, and greater than confusing the heck out of matey from The Academy Is - will be failing to realise that the sentence "we were literally going to be called the 11:59s, until the last minute" is total comedy genius. I am ashamed.
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haha i saw the 11:59 bit straight away fraser! you are losing your touch.. or sight.. or whatever sense are involved with spotting puns.. song's alright, should chart well.
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Is there any internet record of the Ronan Keating interview by any chance?
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Possibly the Hague kept a copy during the Tribunal...
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Sadly not. It was years ago, and the finished version omitted the breakdown aspect. To his credit, Ronan was very professional and let me stumble to the end of each one of my stammered, collapsed questions before giving full and honest answers. This was AFTER the TV crew left, switching all the lights off as they went...
*shudders*
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and kelly jones? and the academy is? do these exist somewhere?
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I can give you the Academy Is... http://bit.ly/agf5u
After the Kelly Jones interview, we came to a gentleman's agreement that no-one should ever hear it ever. We were basically at cross-purposes for most of it, and the bits that weren't were just plain cross.
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lol i can imagine. you probably asked him what he kept in his handbag or something like that.. Kelly glowering at you and you hiding behind your clipboard.
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Suffice to say it's a bad idea to start an interview with a rock star about Strictly Come Dancing, when you don't know that they're booked to appear on it, and they don't know that you don't know, and suspect that you are taking the mickey, even if you're not.
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"...an interview with a rock star [WITH A QUESTION] about Strictly...", sorry.
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I should think he was quite embarrassed about being on Strictly, so wouldn't want to go on about it too much.
And there's no mystery about what's in his handbag. Same as any woman: rawlplugs.
Great interview with The Academy Is...
"I think we're doing an interview..." ... start as you mean to go on :)
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Spirit reckons that Girls can't catch will have their first top 40 hit with Keep your head up .
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1. Thranjax reckons that talking about yourself in the third person is a bit creepy.
2. I have just had an email saying my comment at number 10 has been removed. It still seems to be there and if it does go, I would really like to know why. I can't see any reason whatsoever.
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Hi Thranj,
I hope you don't mind, but I dug up your comment, cut the offending line out and put it back up, if only because it contained a compliment and Lord alone knows how rare those can be on these pages. ;-)
Fraser
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Ok. Just that the comment that is in the email which they say has been removed is the same as what is up now, and I can't remember what else I put in there. It doesn't matter.
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I've remembered what it was now! And yes that word would have to go. Sometimes I forget what blog I'm on :)
I didn't want to imply he WAS one anyway, just that he wouldn't want to appear to be one.
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Girls can't catch .. in at 26 , and have their first top 40 single !
Piece of cake .
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Decent song, and I like their style, but I think it's a case of Beyonce-itis. Phoebe outshines as far as vocals are concerned. Fully deserved chart place though.
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