While The Saturdays are busy riding the success of their latest album and enjoying the fruits of being a hot girl group that isn’t Girls Aloud –they find some time to talk to platform about the new album, the Spice Girls and trashing photo shoot sets.
Hello Mollie Saturdays, how are you today?
I’m good thank you, we are just in a car on the way up to Newcastle at the moment.
Oh very nice.
Exciting!
So your single ‘Forever is over’ stormed the charts last month and came in at a respectable No.2.Are The Saturdays satisfied?
Oh of course, we are over the moon. It’s the first off of our new album and our new material, so for it to be the second best single in the whole country is amazing. Top of the charts would be nice though, but number two is certainly close enough.
Your new single ‘Ego’ came out in mid November, could you tell us what that track is about?
It’s quite different to ‘Forever is over’ which had a rock sound, whereas ‘Ego’ is quite dancey and has an electro edge to it. Definitely a track you would want to hear in the club – it’s about being with a guy who is just a nightmare, and being done with him!
And of course your latest album ‘Wordshaker’ came out back in October, do you think you have grown as a group since your 2008 debut ‘Chasing Lights’?
I think this album is definitely more mature with a bit more variety, but I hope will still appeal to our fans. And I think we have improved performing, just knowing more about our sounds and what works as a group. So hopefully it’s a better album.
I think you’re the start of a new wave of girl groups, who where the girl bands that you looked up to?
I was more in to boy bands than girl bands; I loved backstreet boys and N-sync of course. But I did love Spice Girls, I think they are all of our idols and have such huge personalities and songs. Girls Aloud as well, when we were first on a tour with them and we finally got to meet them, I didn’t know what to say!
You recently did a shoot for FHM and I hear you managed to completely trash the set? Will it be coming out of your wages?
(laughs) Let’s hope not! Yeah we did, oh god it was a nightmare. The shoot was in this expensive house and we had to do a shot where all five of us were jumping on this bed, and it just fell off completely from the wall.
The video on your website is hilarious.
Oh god, we were so scared. All of us were screaming in our underwear, so I hope it was worth it for the shot!
Your band being called The Saturdays, what are you doing this Saturday night?
Well actually, we’ve got a gig at Wembley Arena, I think for the Girl Guides. We are performing twice during the day and can’t wait; it’ll be such a privilege to say we have performed at Wembley. Although normally on a Saturday we’ll be watching X-Factor!
Interview by Thomas Warmsley
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