For context, at the time the biggest pop band in the UK were Westlife, the Louis Walsh-created mannequins whose only nod to any sense of pop performance was a habit of standing up off a stool during the inevitable thudding key change. Brought together in 2002 via ITV’s short-lived Pop Stars: The Rivals, the idea was they’d be the girl band losers to the inevitable boy band victors, the hapless One True Voice. They definitely had no right helping redefine UK pop – aided by gonzo producer Brian Higgins, songwriter Miranda Cooper and the Xenomania production rabble – via a run of singles and albums that imbibed genres, tore up the structural rulebook and gave us lyrics such as “something kinda ooh, jumping on my tutu”. She’s active on IG too and clearly has not aged one single day.Girls Aloud – Cheryl Tweedy (as she was then), Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding – had no right to have a 10-year career featuring 21 UK Top 10 singles. Shireen has been the most active, modeling and landing a bunch of random guest appearances on your favorite 2000-era WB shows, like The Jamie Foxx Show and The Steve Harvey Show. I ain’t making it up, she talks about it in this video. Joyce landed a few acting gigs in the mid ’00s and worked as a costume designer. DeMonica for a time was married to Glenn Plummer (aka Pernell from Menace II Society) but now runs a music licensing company. So, what have they been doing with their lives since the Clinton Administration? If Instagram was around in the 90s, every rapper on the planet would have tried to slide in those DMs.Īfter the tepid response to those singles the group went their separate ways. New Jack was on the downswing, yet their sound hadn’t really evolved.īoth the title track and the follow up “It Must Be Love” were moderate hits but couldn’t touch the success of “Your Sweetness.” It’s too bad, “It Must Be Love” is probably my favorite single and LAWD that video is pretty steamy for 1993. They didn’t really change their style this time around – and that may have been their downfall.
“I Need Your Love” was a minor hit as well.Īfter a couple of tours with Motown labelmates and New Kids on the Block, The Good Girls dropped their second effort, Just Call Me. 10 on the charts so clearly I was the only person bothered. It’s been nearly three decades and that song title still bothers me – sounds like you have bedbugs in your arteries or something. They followed that success with “Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart” – not surprisingly a cover of The Supremes’ hit. This was the elementary school anthem back in 1989 – girls sang that song EVERYWHERE. Speaking of sweetness, their first single “Your Sweetness” caught fire, peaking at No. Their debut, All for Your Love, dropped in 1989, featuring an impossibly angelic album cover. Motown Records packaged Joyce Tolbert, DeMonica Santiago and Shireen Crutchfield as new-age Supremes, finally allowing a female group to add their voices to the New Jack phenomenon. The Good Girls were ready to bring some sweetness to this sausage party. Don’t act surprised.Īnyway, despite a couple of solo female acts here and there, there were no female groups that capitalized on the New Jack sound. Guy, New Edition, Tony! Toni! Toné! and nearly a dozen others found success from the sound. In the late 80s and early 90s, the New Jack Swing ruled the airwaves. Let’s hop in the time machine and travel to the late 80s, when the clothes were colorful, girl groups were plentiful and you didn’t need a Rihanna Rosetta Stone to decipher what these children are singing about. It’s been nearly 30 years (!!!) since The Good Girls dropped their debut album, yet the trio is still one of the most requested groups we’ve had for a “What Ever Happened to…” retrospective. We didn’t know how good we had it in the ‘80s. Isn’t it weird how few female artists you hear on urban radio these days?īesides Rihanna babbling like a 12 month old, a Nicki Minaj guest verse that Stans celebrate like it’s Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” or some random Beyonce song, the pickings are pretty slim these days.
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