9 out of 13 for Red Blooded Women on Room Thirteen

Room Thirteen review Red Blooded Women's "You Made Your Bed EP"

"Girl-group pop, hardest game in the world mate. I was in an all female girl group for a few years man and boy, I tell you. Hmmm, he was an excellent and under-rated Fast Show character wasn’t it?

Anyways, girl groups, perhaps the record companies have seen the end of Girls Aloud and Sugababes as there appears to be a glut of girl groups being pushed back on to unsuspecting young girls and gay men. Most record label money appears to have been dumped on The Saturdays and with two ex S Club Juniors and a Sienna Miller lookalike in the line-up, you know’ll they’ll be appealing to more than the standard market, its just a shame they forget to include a tune with their debut single.



So, not holding out much hope for them, who else is there? Red Blooded Women (yeah, its like that Kylie track but there's three of them) claim to be different. So far so like everyone else but the track ‘You Made Your Bed’ takes from 80s synth pop and delivers something slightly better than to be expected. The vocals are short of breath, there are stop start moments and the lyrical wordplay is kept simple so they’ve followed the template pretty well but it just doesn’t feel collectively right. The remix that tries to steal the bass from ‘I Feel Love’ is probably the best of the bunch but come 2009, you wont be hearing this too much on the sticky and grubby dance floors that lovers of this type of music usually find themselves in.

If you really want to do yourself a favour, get your hands on the work of Little Boots if you really need a poppy girl to bop along to, a little bit harder is Ladyhawke who also gets the thumbs up but if you want the best advice, sit back for a few weeks and get the Annie record. Or better yet, go and get her ‘Anniemal’ album and enjoy ‘Chewing Gum’ or ‘Me Plus One.’ Saying that, Red Blooded Women appear to be better than the rest of their newly launched rivals but how much of a compliment you view this as is entirely up to you!"

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