Everybody Wants to Be on TV | ||||
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Studio album by Scouting for Girls | ||||
Released | 12 April 2010 | |||
Recorded | 2008-2009 at Helioscentric Studios, England | |||
Genre | Pop rock | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | Andy Green | |||
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Singles from Everybody Wants to Be on TV | ||||
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Everybody Wants to Be on TV is the second studio album by the English pop band Scouting for Girls.[4] It was released on 12 April 2010 through Epic. The first single on the album debuted on the Scott Mills BBC Radio 1 show on 15 January 2010. The album artwork was released on January 19, 2010.[5] It is the second time that producer Andy Green has collaborated with Scouting for Girls to produce an album. The album will be re-released and include new single "Love How It Hurts" which was released on 10 July 2011, the re-release was originally to be released on 18 July 2011, however has since been pushed back to later in the year.
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The album took over a year to initially write and prepare[6] but, in summer 2009, Scouting for Girls began recording the final album and had completed it by autumn. They had the initial album written but scrapped it after the 2008 BRIT Awards when they decided it needed rewriting.[7] On their official website, Roy Stride said
"We had the album written, but decided it just wasn't good enough so we trashed it and started over again. I just wanted to write the perfect pop song. We are perfectionists!" [8]
Everybody Wants to Be on TV received mixed reviews, with Arwa Haider of Metro commenting:
"Everybody Wants To Be On TV is another charm offensive that's somehow easy to resist. Perhaps it's the repetitive themes, plodding tempos or clichéd observations. Their pop rock serenades don't even paint women in a particularly pretty light; they're invariably heartless ex-girlfriends, hussies or two-dimensional posh girls. Interestingly, they're open to all kinds of modern effects (including Auto-Tune on Little Miss Naughty) yet the music sounds opportunistic rather than adventurously creative. Their dogged songwriting approach makes for some naggingly catchy choruses (Good Time Girl, On The Radio) but mostly this is the sound of a band dry-humping the mainstream."[1]
However, Andrew Mueller of Uncut was more positive, commenting:
"It's easy to forget, listening to Scouting For Girls' second album, that the past 15 years have happened. Everybody Wants To Be On TV is note-perfect Britpop: jaunty tunes, strident accents, faintly superior sneering at the pastimes of lesser persons. This is fine, up to a point: the upful This Ain't A Love Song and On The Radio will energise student discos as "Girls & Boys" once did. Unfortunately, Scouting For Girls occasionally meander out of their depth. Silly Song wanders the wrong side of the slender line dividing Snow Patrol from James Blunt."[3]
John Aizlewood of Q. May 2010. gave the album 4 stars, commenting:
"There are no curveballs, no experimental digressions, nothing other than 10 of Roy Stride's focused slabs of honed guitar pop, summed up by the first 26 seconds of opening track This Ain't A Love Song, where soaring keyboards explode into a chanted "na na na". Yet for all Stride's laddishness, this is a sophisticated album that never coasts or repeats itself. Making pop sound this effortless, this joyous, is no easy task. And SFG have more reason than most to lament the demise of the single, for there's 10 of them here. A joy."
All lyrics written by Roy Stride, all music composed by Roy Stride.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "This Ain't a Love Song" | 3:30 |
2. | "Little Miss Naughty" | 3:12 |
3. | "Goodtime Girl" | 3:13 |
4. | "Famous" | 2:35 |
5. | "Silly Song" (since renamed "Don't Want to Leave You") | 2:57 |
6. | "On the Radio" | 3:27 |
7. | "Blue as Your Eyes" | 3:42 |
8. | "Posh Girls" | 3:08 |
9. | "1+1" | 2:47 |
10. | "Take a Chance" | 5:19 |
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11. | "A New Day" | 4:59 | |||||||
12. | "This Ain't a Love Song" (acoustic) | 3:32 | |||||||
13. | "Scouting for Girls TV" (video) | 9:13 | |||||||
14. | "This Ain't a Love Song" (video band edit) | 3:07 | |||||||
15. | "Everybody Wants to Be on TV" (digital booklet) |
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11. | "Love How It Hurts" | 3:08 | |||||||
12. | "Without You" | 3:53 | |||||||
13. | "Somebody New" | ||||||||
14. | "A New Day" | 4:59 | |||||||
15. | "Famous" (Pete Phantom Club Remix) | 6:13 | |||||||
16. | "She's So Lovely" | 3:43 | |||||||
17. | "Elvis Ain't Dead" (Live) | 3:10 | |||||||
18. | "Famous" (Cahill Club Remix) | 5:59 |
"Everybody Wants To Be On TV" debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number 2, being beaten only by Plan B with his second album The Defamation of Strickland Banks. Despite earning a second Top 3 album, the debut album had peaked at number 1. The following week the album fell to number 5 and then to number 8 on 2 May 2010. The album has so far spent a total of 7 weeks within the Top 40 Albums, falling from number 40 to number 54 on 6 June 2010. The album also debuted on the Irish Albums Chart at #11, which is the same placement the previous album received.
Chart (2010) | Peak Position |
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UK Albums Chart | 2 |
Irish Album Chart | 11 |
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