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When it was reported last year that ex-Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle had only sold 117 copies of her much-hyped debut solo single, I have to say I was pretty gobsmacked.
It makes it all too clear just how fickle the pop industry really is… I often wonder if Cheryl Cole hadn’t had music mogul Simon Cowell backing her would she have fared so well with her mediocre efforts and lacklustre stage performances.
Not one to be discouraged, Belfast-born beauty Coyle is back… er, with a new image and a live show performed in what can only be described as ‘cramped surroundings’ according to my spies in the audience.
That was the scene at New York’s Splash Club last weekend when the singer gave onlookers a ‘thigh-full,’ – dressed in a pair of black patent leather boots, a pair of knickers, a purple corset and a tiara, with a face ‘caked’ in make-up to promote her debut solo album Insatiable and latest single Sweetest High.
Except (I’m told) her show gave anything but the sweetest high…
There’s no doubt that Miss Coyle can still belt out a tune, she has a great voice, but that teased afro-hair has to go!
What on earth was she thinking… Let’s play popstar dress-up?
The singer told press at the club: “It’s a challenge! You’ve got to come, you’ve got to work hard. I remember the days beginning at 16, 17 years old in Girls Aloud. Nobody knew us, nobody cared. We’d do university shows and people threw beers cans at us. All sorts of crazy things! We had to work really hard to get where we did.”
With regard to her plans to make it big in America, she continues, “that’s where I’m at now. That grind. That mentality of, ‘Yeah, let’s do it. Let’s work hard. What can we do? What can we achieve?’ I love that part of it.”
I do love her spirit!
Don’t worry Nadine, on a brighter note; I’m sure Cheryl will come under similar fire when she launches her album in the U.S later this year… Long gone are the sold-out stadiums of the glorious Girls Aloud days… Pop certainly isn’t what it used to be!
Referring to the years she has been performing professionally, Coyle finished by saying that “ten years of all that stuff, it would be a shame to let it pass!”
That much I agree with Nadine, I guess you’ve got to give it a go…
My Verdict: Get back together girls, there’s strength in numbers!
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