Y2UK

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Group: Girls Aloud: Great way to start the rate, honestly had middling expectations for my scores coming in, but hopefully this is a sign of things to come and not an instant peak

Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground: 11 Hold on, this is a reality talent show band that somehow got to have this dope ass track as their debut single? That alone is possibly the biggest win in TV music contest history

Girls Aloud - The Show: 8

Girls Aloud - Love Machine: 9 Mathematicians Aloud would have sang "easy as Pi" and "give me a kiss or 3.1415926535..."

Girls Aloud - Biology: 6 "You can't mistake my biology" is something an alien would say when they're trying to pass as human

Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Oooh: 6 This instrumental feels straight out of a generic racing game main menu

Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No...: 7 Went back-and-forth on this one, but I think the Yes's have it

Girls Aloud - Call the Shots: 9 Ooh, super close to being incredible. Think the climax needed a little more power or an extra new wrinkle or two

Girls Aloud - The Promise: 10 Gorgeous track

Girls Aloud - On the Metro: 9 Popheads bait and they caught my ass

Group: All Saints: Never got bad, but not an interesting enough presence to reach the highest scores

All Saints - I Know Where It's At: 8

All Saints - Never Ever: 6 I see the streaming version is a minute & a half longer than the "US version" on youtube I used, and I can't help but feel that I dodged a bullet here. The intro probably made me rougher than I usually would though

All Saints - Under the Bridge: 4 Don't have it in me to be youtube comments level of upset, but also don't enjoy this either

All Saints - Bootie Call: 7 I can feel this dude's mouth noises at my ear, having good headphones is a negative with this song

All Saints - Pure Shores: 8 Music video unexpectedly scary, they keep using the ghost harrassers type night vision camera with weird shots and legit jumpscared me with a sudden Leonardo DiCaprio almost halfway through

All Saints - Black Coffee: 6 Wish more of the song was like the ending

All Saints - All Hooked Up: 8

All Saints - Chick Fit: 6 All Saints finally go uptempo, but at what cost?

Group: Mis-Teeq: Would not be opposed to the Mis-Teeq #Mis-Sweep

Mis-Teeq - Why? - UK Garage MC Radio Edit: 9 Oh hell yes, some good food

Mis-Teeq - All I Want - Sunship Radio Edit: 10 Thumbs way up to that rap verse: perfect placement, love her voice, brings so much energy & swagger

Mis-Teeq - One Night Stand - Stargate Radio Edit: 9 Wait why are they telling me to grab a man?

Mis-Teeq - B with Me: 8 Adultery bop

Mis-Teeq - Roll On - Blacksmith Rub: 10 Hot damn, I wanna take a drive right now. No way this won't kill as a summer with the windows up type track

Mis-Teeq - Home Tonight (feat. Joe): 9 Good slow jam

Mis-Teeq - Scandalous: 10 Fantastic chorus build. Just that damn good in near every area.

Mis-Teeq - Can't Get It Back - Ignorants Radio Edit: 7

Group: Atomic Kitten: A few good tracks, but there's just nothing to sink my teeth into here outside of the bizarre I Want Your Love, whose score I raised just because it was at least interesting in comparison

Atomic Kitten - Right Now: 9 This is the type of sound I expected from British girl group pop

Atomic Kitten - I Want Your Love: 8 Who decided this song should sound like a sci-fi western lmao. It's a "we got the idea via improv group prompt" idea

Atomic Kitten - Whole Again: 6

Atomic Kitten - Eternal Flame: 3 I looked at the title, realized what was about to happen, and just sighed

Atomic Kitten - It's OK!: 5 Don't make me say it

Atomic Kitten - The Tide is High: 5

Atomic Kitten - The Last Goodbye: 5

Atomic Kitten - Be With You: 8 Retro dance playing miracle worker yet again

Atomic Kitten - If You Come to Me: 6 Picket fence pop for Brit moms

Group: Sugababes: Needed a bit more time to click, but the good stuff is absolutely worth it

Sugababes - Overload: 9

Sugababes - Freak Like Me: 10 Running it back remembering it's a re-do of a mashup helped get me onboard with its sound. Absolute home run bomb. Oh wait this is Y2UK, it's an absolute goooaaal (?)

Sugababes - Round Round: 9 Second verse on got my attention, super interesting production

Sugababes - Hole in the Head: 6

Sugababes - Too Lost in You: 8

Sugababes - Push The Button: 10 I can't stop rewinding the music video for the white dude's reaction at 2:36

Sugababes - Red Dress: 6 TV on the Radio outsold

Sugababes - Ugly: 6 This is probably the ceiling for this kind of empowerment anthem

Sugababes - About You Now: 7 Weird place where this is better in a lot of ways than Miranda's cover, but I also prefer the driving teeny bopper pop punk energy in LAND rate. Chorus is fun as hell, there's potential for a high scoring version of this, but neither quite make it there

Group: The Saturdays: Fun, dumb pop in that late 00s/early 10s way. Super disposable, but generally you'll have a good time when these come on

The Saturdays - Issues: 3 Bit too pristine honestly, solid voices but this is basic and safe to the point of boredom

The Saturdays - Forever Is Over: 7 Might be overrating since it's following up such a boring song, but I do appreciate the energy

The Saturdays - Ego: 7

The Saturdays - Higher ft. Flo Rida: 7 Enough time has passed for me to be nostalgic for Flo Rida, wtf

The Saturdays - Notorious: 8 hey i'm girlbossin over here

The Saturdays - All Fired Up: 9 Heard "animal-mal-mal" and had to pause, I can't let myself be dragged there again

The Saturdays - What About Us: 7 Fun first listen, liked the bridge, but shrinker potential is definitely evident

The Saturdays - Gentleman: 9 M'Saturdays

The Saturdays - Disco Love: 9 Basic and unoriginal but hell if it isn't fun

BONUS TRACKS

Una Healy - Wild Grasses: 6 Shame Gentleman wasn't the last song for the Saturdays, missed opportunity for an all-time sonic whiplash

Siobhan Donaghy - Ghosts: 6 Need this energy to be dropped completely unchanged into like, Push the Button

Sarah Harding - Wear It Like a Crown: 5 This chorus feels manufactured in a lab to be used in fanvids

Nicola Roberts - Beat Of My Drum: 10 "Gentleman is the wildest song in this rate" Hold my mf drum

Mutya Buena - Song 4 Mutya (Out of Control) ft. Groove Armada: 9 Good grooves

Mollie King - Back To You: 2

Cheryl - Fight For This Love: 2 Fight Song levels of weakness

Alesha Dixon - The Boy Does Nothing: 8 God of War (2018) when you don't put any skill points into Atreus

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