What Will the Neighbors Say?

What Will the Neighbors Say?
Girls Aloud studio album
Publication (s)	November 29, 2004
Label (s)	Polydor Records
Format (s)	CD , digital
Genre (s)	pop
Title (number)	14 (UK Edition) 12 (International Version)
running time	51:15 (UK Edition)
occupation	Nadine Coyle Sarah Harding Nicola Roberts Cheryl Tweedy Kimberley Walsh
production	Brian Higgins, Xenomania
chronology Sound of the Underground (2003) What Will the Neighbors Say? Chemistry (2005)

What Will the Neighbors Say? ( German: What will the neighbors say? ) is the second album by the British girl group Girls Aloud . The album was released on November 29, 2004 in England, where it went double platinum.

Background information

Due to the great success of the band's debut album, the Polydor record company decided to have Brian Higgins and Xenomania produce the entire second album. The album was recorded from April to September 2004. The title of the album is derived from the line What will the neighbors say this time? from the song Love Machine , which in turn refers to a line from the debut single Sound of the Underground .

In contrast to the debut album, the second album was more influenced by styles such as electro-pop and electronic dance music . Synthesizers are used particularly often . Classical instruments such as guitars are also used in many songs.

The song Jump (for My Love) , a cover of the Pointer Sisters , was already included on the re-release of the debut album. The two songs Deadlines & Diets and Here We Go are covers of one of the members of Xenomania, Miranda Cooper, who had previously released music under the stage name Moonbaby . The song Graffiti My Soul contains a sample of the song It's Not the Drug by Peplab and was originally offered to Britney Spears, who declined this song. It was originally intended to be the last single on the album, but was no longer released because the band wanted to start work on their third studio album. The last two songs on the CD are only included on the UK version. These were written down by Nicola Roberts and Nadine Coyle and sung by the respective member alone.

Track list

1. "The Show" (Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, Lisa Cowling, Jon Shave) - 3:36
2. "Love Machine" (Cooper, Higgins, Powell, Cowling, Nick Coler, Myra Boyle, Shawn Lee) - 3:25
3. "I'll Stand by You" (Chrissie Hynde, Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg) - 3:43
4. "Jump (for My Love)" (Steve Mitchell, Marti Sharron, Gary Skardina) - 3:39
5. "Wake Me Up" (Cooper, Higgins, Powell, Cowling, Lee, Paul Woods, Yusra Maru'e) - 3:27
6. "Deadlines & Diets" (Cooper, Higgins, Matt Gray) - 3:57
7. "Big Brother" (Girls Aloud, Cooper, Higgins, Cowling, Tim "Rolf" Larcombe) - 3:58
8. "Hear Me Out" (Girls Aloud, Cooper, Higgins, Powell, Cowling) - 3:42
9. "Graffiti My Soul" (Cooper, Higgins, Powell, Cowling, Peplab) - 3:14 am
10. "Real Life" (Cooper, Higgins, Cowling, Larcombe) - 3:41
11. "Here We Go" (Cooper, Higgins, Gray) - 3:45
12. "Thank Me Daddy" (Girls Aloud, Cooper, Higgins, Powell, Cowling, Woods, Larcombe) - 3:22
13. "I Say a Prayer for You" (Nicola Roberts Solo) (Nicola Roberts, Cooper, Higgins, Powell, Cowling) - 3:33 [UK Bonus Track]
14. "100 Different Ways" (Nadine Coyle Solo) (Nadine Coyle, Cooper, Higgins, Coler, Cowling) - 3:41 [UK Bonus Track]

Chart positions and awards

country	placement	Awards
Great Britain	6th	Double platinum

Singles

Jump (for My Love) is considered the first single on the album, but is on both the Sound of the Underground re-release and What Will the Neighbors Say? . The song reached number 2 on the UK charts.

The album's first official single, The Show , peaked at number 2 on the UK charts. It was one of the first three-inch pocket-size CDs in Europe. The song also made it to number 1 in Greece. The song was also released in 2006 in Australia as the second single of the Australian version of the follow-up album Chemistry . A remix of Jump was included as the B-side .

Love Machine was the next single. Since this song also reached number 2, it became the band's sixth top 3 single. The song was part of the advertising campaign for Homebase, a UK home furnishing and garden center, between 2006 and 2009. The song Androgynous Girls was included as the B-side.

Then the song I'll Stand by You , a cover version of the Pretenders , was released. He was inducted into the Children In Need charity event . Despite receiving negative reviews from many critics, the song became the band's second number 1 hit and also received a silver award. The song Real Life was on the single CD as the B-side.

Wake Me Up , the last single on the album, reached number 4 on the charts, making it the band's first single to not make it into the top 3. In 2005 the song won the Popjustice £ 20 Music Prize for best single of the previous year , which the band had previously won. The b-sides of that single were History and Loving Is Easy .

Placements

year	title	Chart placements
		CH	UK
2003	Jump (for My Love)	58	2
2004	The show	-	5
	Love machine	-	2
	I'll stand by you	-	1
2005	wake me up	-	4th

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1. ↑ Certified Awards Search. British Phonographic Industry , accessed September 15, 2014 . 
2. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4562375.stm
3. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000472859
4. ↑ http://xenomania.freehostia.com/songs/girlsaloud/wwtns/graffitimysoul.html
5. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/music/newsid_3671000/3671250.stm
6. ↑ http://virginmedia.com/music/reviews/albumreviews/girlsaloud_whatwilltheneighbourssay.php ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Chart sources: CH , UK