Everybody Wants to Be on TV

Everybody Wants to Be on TV
Everybody Wants to Be on TV
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
Professional reviews

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Scouting for Girls chronology
Scouting for Girls
(2007)		 Everybody Wants to Be on TV
(2010)
Singles from Everybody Wants to Be on TV
  1. "This Ain't a Love Song"
    Released: 29 March 2010
  2. "Famous"
    Released: 18 July 2010
  3. "Don't Want to Leave You"
    Released: 10 October 2010
  4. "Take a Chance"
    Released: 10 December 2010
  5. "Love How It Hurts"
    Released: 10 July 2011
Alternative cover

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.

Contents

Recording

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]

Singles

  • "This Ain't a Love Song" is the first single from the album Everybody Wants to Be on TV. It was described by Amazon.com as "a powerful, soaring song". [7] It was released on 28 March 2010 as a digital download, with the physical release the following day and debuted at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart on 4 April 2010, marking the band's most successful single to date.
  • "Famous" is the second single from the album and is due to be released as a digital download on 11 July 2010, with the physical release the following day. On 4 July 2010, it debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 97.
  • "Don't Want to Leave You", is the third single from the album and is the new name for Silly Song. It was released digitally on October 10th and physical release on the following day. It reached number 69 on the UK Singles Chart.
  • "Take a Chance", is the fourth single from the album and is the official soundtrack of the Dutch movie Loft. It was released on 10 December, the music video was also released on that same day. [9] [10]
  • "Love How It Hurts", is the fifth single released from the album. It was released on 10 July 2011.

Reception

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."

Track listing

All lyrics written by Roy Stride, all music composed by Roy Stride.

No. Title Length
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


Chart performance

"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
UK Albums Chart 2
Irish Album Chart 11

Personnel

[11]

Performance credits

Band

Technical credits

Production

Artwork

  • Lisa Peardon; Dean Chalky; Ellis Parrinder; Lisa Gold – photography
  • Fern's Dad – Artwork

Notes

  1. ^ a b Arwa Haider Metro, 12 April 2010.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Caroline (8 April 2010). "Scouting for Girls: Everybody Wants to Be on TV, CD review". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/apr/08/scouting-for-girls-everybody-review. Retrieved 12 April 2010. 
  3. ^ a b Andrew Mueller Uncut, May 2010.
  4. ^ "Press release at 'The Music Fix'". http://www.themusicfix.co.uk/content/news-flash/8331/scouting-for-girls-announce-new-album. Retrieved 22 January 2010. [dead link]
  5. ^ "New album artwork!". www.scoutingforgirls.co.uk. Tuesday 19th of January. http://www.scoutingforgirls.com/gb/news/2010-01-19/new_album_artwork/. Retrieved 25 January 2010. 
  6. ^ Stride, Roy; Greg Churchouse, Pete Ellard (Friday 19th of March). "A message from SFG!". www.scoutingforgirls.com. http://www.scoutingforgirls.com/gb/news/2010-03-19/a_message_from_sfg/. Retrieved 19 March 2010. 
  7. ^ a b "Everybody Wants to Be on TV". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002ZTIJ0M. Retrieved 19 March 2010. 
  8. ^ "Scouting for Girls announce new album details". www.scoutingforgirls.co.uk. 4 December 2009. http://www.scoutingforgirls.com/gb/news/2009-12-04/scouting_for_girls_announce_new_album_details/. Retrieved 22 January 2010. 
  9. ^ "Nieuwe Video Scouting for Girls - Take a Chance". Dutch: Future Music Charts. http://www.futuremusiccharts.nl/futuremusiccharts/2010/12/nieuwe-video-scouting-for-girls-take-a-chance.html. Retrieved 23 December 2010. 
  10. ^ Scouting For Girls Take a Chance Video clip - YouTube (Music video). YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_9gz5RQ0Rs. Retrieved 23 December 2010. 
  11. ^ (2010) Album notes for Everybody Wants to Be on TV by Scouting for Girls, p. 9 [booklet]. Epic Records.


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