No Can Do

"No Can Do" is a song recorded by British girl group Sugababes. The song was written by Jon Shave, VV "Geeki" Brown and Orson band members George Astasio and Jason Pebworth for the band's sixth studio album Catfights and Spotlights (2008), and produced by The Invisible Men and Si Hulbert, featuring a prominent sample of Sweet Charles Sherrell's recording "Yes It's You."

Released as the album's second and final single on December 22, 2008,^[1] the song reached number 23 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming one of the group's lowest-charting singles on the national chart. In addition, it managed to enter the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart.

Music video

The music video was directed by Marco Puig and filmed in the week of November 2, 2008.^[2] The video features the girls in "glamorous gowns with big hair and big lashes", while using men wearing nothing but briefs as objects including a car, a motorbike and chairs. The concept was taken from furniture sculptures by British pop artist Allen Jones, also used in the film A Clockwork Orange (1971), where women are used as furniture by men in a similar way.^[2]

Chart performance

On December 21, 2008, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 94, based on downloads alone, and peaked at number 23 in early January 2009. In the second week of release, "No Can Do" dropped thirteen places to number 36 in the UK, eventually dropping out of the top 40 in its third week. It has sold 49,063 copies within the UK and is their fifth worst-selling song there.

In Ireland, the single became the group's second single to not chart on the Irish Singles Chart, the first being 2001's "Soul Sound".

Tracklisting

1. "No Can Do"
2. "Spiralling" (Radio One Live Lounge)
3. "No Can Do" (Bimbo Jones Radio Edit)
4. "No Can Do" (WAWA Radio Edit)

Charts

References

External links

• Sugababes.com—official site