Chasing Lights The Saturdays Views

General Goods

The Saturdays started production of their debut album in May 2008 while supporting Girls Aloud—with whom they share the same record label—on their Tangled Up Tour. The Saturdays were also reportedly offered the chance to record songs rejected by Girls Aloud.[3] Band member Mollie King told the Daily Star, We all thought it was a bit of a cheek. Why would we want their rejects? [...] It's bad enough with all the comparisons being made. [3] The last track of Chasing Lights, Why Me, Why Now was originally a demo by Alex Cartana, but later picked up by The Saturdays. The members of The Saturdays have no writing credits on the record.

In the UK, Chasing Lights debuted at number eleven while in Ireland it debuted at number forty-nine. By April 2009, the album reached a new peak of number thirty-four in Ireland. The album climbed from number fourteen to number nine on 25 January 2009, marking the album's first time inside the UK top ten. The album was certified Platinum in the UK on November 6, 2009.[5]

Infused with heavy helpings of disco, Chasing Lights is a brazen pop album, brimming with catchy hooks, girly melodies and light-hearted, uplifting beats. Sounding like an 80s throwback, the ladies' lead single If This Is Love opens the album with its synth-heavy sound. Next is recent single Up- a massive sing-a-long song, which should make Girls Aloud very scared indeed.

A girl band featuring former members of S Club 8? Bearing in mind that the latter existed solely to mop up the infants who were too young for S Club 7, it doesn't bode well. But as two-fifths of the Saturdays, Rochelle Wiseman and Frankie Sandford aren't too bad. A year of major-label development has gone into this attempt to create a group who aren't just pop enough to sell records but good enough to win Girls Aloud-style plaudits, and Chasing Lights is a reasonably promising debut. Despite too much shrill filler, such as the title track (and the more generic the song, the more they ladle on the gritted-teeth sincerity), there are some delicious moments. The fiercely electronic Set Me Off, which gives each girl a turn singing lead, and Up, whose chorus sneers, If you lose me, you're just a bit too slow , are high-quality pop, and there are more where those came from.