"It looks like the Sugababes project is over for now. In the week when Destiny's Child and the Atomic Kittens fight for the top slot in the charts (the 'kittens' winning with a travesty of The Bangles 'Eternal Flame'), 'Soul Sound' dropped from the top 40. Despite plaudits from the music press and further afield (even The Guardian gave them a good review), it seems the public had little time for this smoother form of RnB. Their time will come we're sure."I was half right. Sugababes Mk II seemed to ditch their original cool to appeal to a wider audience with louder, more dance orientated sound. It worked and they went to the top. But I was always more of a fan of Mk I with their afformention soul sound, smooth, quiter, subtler. The change in sound can be attributed definitely to the loss of Siobhan Donaghy from the mix (apparently sort of just left suddenly). Although her replacement Heidi Range is certainly a capable vocalist, but flattens out the words to something close to a girl band model. With Donaghy it sometimes actually sounded as though girls cared about what they were singing, and the general impression was more urban. Now Siobhan is back with a new single and it's a joy. Shorn of her ex-bandmates, ironic we can see that she was the one with the range (pun intended). We now hear a Suzie Quatro-esque twing now and then which complements a musical sound akin to Coldplay being asked to do a cover version of something by Roger Sanchez. The video is good to as Donaghy looking like a Victorian beauty out on the town strapped to the camera ala Harvey Keitel in Mean Streets (you know the scene). Amazingly it's on the Radio One playlist to it might do quite well.
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