"surely being 'pretty good' is not enough"

Music Girls Can't Catch were a girl group, or to paraphrase Almost Famous, a "mid level band struggling with their own limitations". They weren't awful, but like Girfriend, Hepburn, Bellefire, Thunderbugs and The Alice Band, the public largely ignored them because they had the kind of name that drama writers give fake pop bands and they didn't quite fit on The Spice Girls, Sugababes, B*Witched, All Saints or in their case Girls Aloud axis. Trust PopJustice to write the best obituary:

"The idealist says this: "surely being 'pretty good' is not enough". Well maybe. Clearly, pop should aim for the stars. Clearly, no pop artist should aim to be average. But it misses the point to claim that the band were bad (or terrible) simply because they were not extraordinary. Not every artist can be Girls Aloud or Lady Gaga, nor SHOULD every artist do what those acts have done. Girls Cant Catch were just a pop group, and their songs were just pop songs. And really, that's fine. Pop doesn't always need to smash boundaries. Here's the news: if you only enjoy pop music that breaks pop's boundaries, you are not really a pop fan."

Perhaps the buying public have decided that pop music doesn't need variety in a world when five different Beyonce tracks can be in the chart at the same time. Whilst we're not at all on the subject, Eliza Doolittle's a big fan of She & Him and Lily Allen isn't she?