What Will the Neighbours Say?

Girls Aloud - What Will the Neighbours Say?
Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
User Score
Based on 39 ratings
2004 Rank: #277
Liked by 8 people
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
DIY
Yes, it's mindless, slightly slutty, and probably the musical equivalent of dancing round an Essex girl's handbag on a Friday night, but it has an edge that most 'proper' bands can't muster.
80
The Guardian

Ultimately, you cannot escape the feeling that What Will the Neighbours Say? achieves greatness despite, rather than because of, the group whose name appears on the front cover. This is certainly an odd state of affairs, but it does not stop it being a great album: funny, clever, immediate, richly inventive.

80
The Irish Times
Girls Aloud administer the kind of alleviating nonsense that sounds absolutely brilliant comin' atcha from a radio.
70
AllMusic
The album's running order is top-heavy, with the five singles comprising the first five tracks -- not that this really mattered in the days of downloads and track cherry-picking, but that did leave the second half of the album rather thin on killer tracks.
garboasaboy
87

Sinto falta de quando música pop podia ser ousada e escrachadamente pop como elas foram nesse álbum. Diferente da maioria dos álbuns pop que eu elogio este não é uma esfera cristalina de músicas, é uma viagem de sons sujos, marcados, um pouco datados e extremamente cativantes. É um álbum pop para as reais divas da fubangocity, barangotown, sem medo nenhum de ser si mesma e de se divertir muito no processo.

PMM
66

Nothing special, few songs are bangers, the rest are fillers. Album is definitely frontloaded, joyful and catchy, the lyrics are usually messy and silly. Most of it is typical pop fare, with the rock edge, I think it's a lovely combination. "Wake Me Up" it's my favourite rockish pop banger.

gnataugust
75

a bit of history for this one: of all the girls aloud albums, 'what will the neighbours say?' is the one i have the least pre-existing experience with. the shops i went to never stocked it, which for ~3-5 year old me meant that it just simply didnt exist. i had heard the singles obviously, but i had always just assumed they were only ever released as singles and on the greatest hits comp. of course, a couple years later i would be allowed (ha) onto the internet, where i spent most of my time ... read more

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Track List

1The Show
3:38
94
2Love Machine
3:27
89
3I'll Stand By You
3:45
66
4Jump
3:40
84
5Wake Me Up
3:28
89
6Deadlines & Diets
4:00
70
7Big Brother
4:00
77
8Hear Me Out
3:44
72
9Graffiti My Soul
3:15
87
10Real Life
3:43
78
11Here We Go
3:47
77
12Thank Me Daddy
3:25
77
Total Length: 43 minutes
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Added on: August 24, 2014