Nadine Coyle - Insatiable

[PercyPig]

So looks like this this will be first single from the Tesco Value superstar

I had the first listen to NADINE COYLE's debut solo single Insatiable yesterday and like it more than I probably should.
It sounds instantly familiar because Nadine is always the main singer in GIRLS ALOUD.

But there's an Eighties feel to the tune which reminded me of THE BANGLES.

Sounds thrilling…

I would quite like it to be good but I won’t be holding my breath.

[octophone]

5/2 at Honest Octy's that it's a totally joyless Girls Aloud soundalike.

[VoR]

Here it is then:



First impression: MEH!

[PercyPig]

Hmmmm. Pretty rubbish isn’t it? What’s with the overly nasal intro?

[Strawberry Jam]

LOLZ

[Kevin]

I prefer Promise This.

[dUb]

Well I think it's great

"It's like 'Woah! Who knew?'" is my new favourite lyric of all-time/today.

[PercyPig]

It’s the new “I know, right!"

[Tischlampe]

So let me get this straight:

She's releasing the album on her own record label, she's completely self-produced it (or so she says, I don't doubt there were plenty "workers" involved), and the album will only be sold in Tescos? Why is she doing it like this? Surely she was able to get a deal somewhere, she ain't Mel C!

It all sounds very weird, and un-traditional to me. Why is she going down this really strange route? Will it be a success?

Will it even be available to download if it's exclusive to Tescos? It'll be on Tesco MP3 sure, but I can't imagine the NADINE COYLE ALBUM not being on iTunes on Spotify. It's all too weird.

[Mugatu]

It's pretty average, I think it might be a grower for me though.

If that is the release strategy for the album, it's pretty ludicrous. It just feels that she's limiting the amount of sales she gets, I wonder how much Tesco paid her to do it?

I'd hope it would go on iTunes, obviously if it is 'self-produced' then she'll want to recoup some money, even if it is just for pride's sake.

[jivafox]

I kind of LIKE it and I kind of DON'T. The intro is the best part, it sounds almost 80s and not in a cheap way. But then she starts singing.

[dUb]

Review of the album sampler courtesy of hollaa01 on the PJ boards

Okay, literally listening now for the first time.

Is Insatiable the first single? I'm crap at reviewing. But this isn't very Girls Aloud - 'When I'm inside your arms, there's racing in my heart...' 'It's like woaaaaahhh who knew' are two bits I like. haha. It's got a very light rock sound to it - and a computerised little bit which repeats 'Insatiable' leading into the final verse/chorus. It's not bad at all, totally the opposite of what Cheryl's stuff sounds like. Voice is strong. Guitars.

Red Light... 'stop at the red lights.... you're playing Hendrix and lighting up... I got your attention....'. This one has a very catchy melody. Chorus sounds more like what you'd expect from Girls Aloud but NOT Girls Aloud... (told you I was shit at reviewing). Chrous isn't particularly 'instant' ...Lots of male repeating 'red light' (ie, re-e-e-e-e-ed liiight, reddd l-i-i-i-i-i-i-g-h-tttt). Picks up around 2:20, I'm liking this. Doesn't sound like a single to me, though.

Chained... starts with another male vocal singing 'yeah, ye-aahh...' (who is this?!). Nadine: 'I wish I was stronger, I wish I was wiser than I am right now...'. Has a floaty, evening feel to it.

Natural... piano-led. Vocal sounds more stripped-down and it's noticeable. This one, for me (on first listen) isn't as instant. But could work around Christmas time, for sure. It's mid-tempo.

Unbroken... Nice little guitar strum to start things off, runs throughout. Again, this one is slower than the first three. Chorus is very high... feels a little 'stretched' but not in a loud way... very breathy. I must admit, don't like this one so much.

Read more: http://www.popjustice.com/forum/inde...#ixzz0ykNfSEyJ

He also says

Tesco have lined up a small fortune for marketing this release, R1 have heard the single and are keen and there's a pre-week-of-release promo slot lined up for a certain large TV show of which fellow GA member Cheryl is a judge. This can't go wrong?

[octophone]

Honest Octy is paying out on "joyless".

[Jark]

Insatiable sounds like one of those bizarre songs where you can't pick out a single lyric because she sounds to be singing in another language. I like it though! But if this is the most commercial song on there then I don't foresee the album being big at all.

[Jark]

Mind you I have to say I LOVE the production It's so huge and GRAND

[dUb]

Wayne Isham is directing the video so expect something GLOSSY and KIND OF EXPENSIVE looking

[POP!]

It's VERY good, definitely a hit

[Johnkm]

Ugh, I hate her accent so much, that aside, the song itself is rather good, the intro makes it sound like it's going to be better than it is though. Hopefully it has a proper middle 8 and it'll be a winner.

[FetchFugly]

On WHAT PLANET does that song sound anything like The Bangles? What was the source of that insightful description by the way?

I agree the intro is better than the rest of it.

[lolly]

Mind you I have to say I LOVE the production It's so huge and GRAND

I agree about the production. I don't like the song so much (well, as far as you can say on that clip), but if they have thrown similar production values behind the rest of the album, there may well be something for me to get excited about.

[lolly]

oh and yes, BANGLES MY ARSE

[PercyPig]

How close are Cheryl’s and Nadine’s releases going to be? I bet neither of them are even aware of what the other is doing such is the friendship them two have.

Don’t thèse supermarket deals work in a way that is quite good for artists where they buy say 100,000 copies with no option of selling them back?

[PercyPig]

On WHAT PLANET does that song sound anything like The Bangles? What was the source of that insightful description by the way?

I agree the intro is better than the rest of it.

The beautiful Gordon Smart from The Sun.

[Raining On Me]

Good grief it sounds like a better version (i.e not saying much) of "Pandora's Kiss". NOT what I wanted from this bitch. However, is that image the cover? It's quite fabulous but I expect she's probably the first popstar whose image had be airbrushed to ADD some meat.

Also, X FACTOR? I'm not keen on the song but I could see it doing ok ISH but with that behind it it can't exactly fail surely? I'd have thought Cheryl would be livid at the idea

[Loufoque]

It's CRAP!

[Susan-Claire]

It sounds better than the vast majority of Out Of Control but then so would three minutes of thinny legs snapping and her minge mewing Y Viva España

[[insert your best offer here]]

What happened to Guy Chambers.

[Define Life]

If cheryl was singing it people would love it.

But, she isn't

[POP!]

If cheryl was singing it people would love it.

But, she isn't

What difference does it make? Both have VASTLY different types of voices, not that Nadine has anything on POWERHOUSE CHERYL but the record would still sound probably very different had Cheryl sung it.

[Raining On Me]

If cheryl was singing it people would love it.

But, she isn't

I really WANT to like Nadine's stuff, I don't feel that way about Cheryl. The fact is it's just a bit "is that it?" no matter who had sung it

[dUb]

NadineWorldwide
Soooo excited to be performing new songs for the first time at G-A-Y... Halloween weekend it's going to be madness.. see you there! woohoo
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[Jark]

New pic

[Strawberry Jam]

New pic

Of who?

No seriously, who is that supposed to be?

[octophone]

New pic

So, how did she come to be wearing such a warm winter jacket with nothing underneath it? Is she supposed to be a cheap kissogram or something?

[Jark]

It's very Shania Twain circa 1995

[TurnerPrize]

Ooh yes! Shania Twain circa '95, wearing an ugg boot

[PercyPig]

[dUb]

From Digital Spy (and OMG could the last track mentioned be a McPhee cover?!)

It feels as if it's taken longer to arrive than a package from Amazon Antarctica, but The Nadine Coyle album is finally on its way and, having fully abused the five-track sampler over the weekend, we're happy to confirm that, yes indeed, it's time to get excited.

As those of you who've heard the clip on the Nadtastic one's website will know, the lead single and title track - 'Insatiable', details fans - is a bombastic synthy pop morsel with more swagger than the hardest lad in the upper sixth. However, to our ears it's trumped by 'Red Light', an Annie Lennox-goes-electro-glam stomper on which Nadine seems to be obsessing over a band's star axesmith - appropriately enough, the track concludes with a widdly-widdly 40-second guitar solo that Slash himself wouldn't raise his eyebrows at. (Not that you'd be able to see behind the shades, of course.)

What's more, as any self-respecting Girls Aloud fan will tell you, Nads can slow it down as well as throw it down. 'Chained' is a suitably contemporary-sounding pop-R&B toe-tapper built around a plinky-plonky synth riff not dissimilar to the one at the start of Whitney's 'My Love Is Your Love', 'Natural' is a slinky little number that Louise would have done the business with back in the day - and yes, we do mean that as a compliment - and 'Unbroken' is a soulful, smouldering, five-minute-long ballad on which La Coyle shows off a near-operatic falsetto. We should probably mention at this point that her vocals on all five tracks are pretty bloody good.

See, we told you it was time to get excited, didn't we?

[VoR]

Comparisons to LOUISE?

[PercyPig]

Can’t wait to illegally download this!