Cobra Starship – Good Girls Go Bad
Many bands don’t make it huge on their first album, perhaps not even their second but it seems that Cobra Starship get their first major UK outing on their forth studio album. With a quick check of their website (I’ll admit I didn’t know of them before) it appears that these electro rockers have been around for a few years now, but mainly over the pond in USA.
With clothes harking from classic 80’s pop videos and band name lettering in oh-so-chic neon jaunty lettering, Cobra Starship certainly tick all the boxes for a electro group. The real question is, can they avoid the recent trap that so many electro pretenders have fallen into, landing in the mundane wasteland between electronica and mainstream pop.
Slamming their single into the CD-player (shouldn’t it be on cassette to be even more retro?) they waste no time in laying out their wares. This band want the mainstream and they obviously aren’t scared of potentially getting played in most nightclubs. I’m sure the song wont please many electro purists, but even to my discerning ears, it’s a track that deserves a full play. With a hint of four-to-the-floor club readiness and just a tinge of boyband vocals, this isn’t the usual electro drudgery.
Starting with a Lady-Gaga-esque synth line, the song gives little idea of what may come; we’re quickly thrown into a foot tapping session of teen-rock guitars over the clubbing ready drum track, punctuated with an on-trend mix of synth backing. The surprise celebrity treat of Leighton Meester (singer-songwriter and actress who you’ll recognise from Gossip Girl) in the final section of the song is a nice touch. The change of voice and vocal variety lends the song a very Black-Eyed-Peas appeal, could she be a more permanent addition?
Whilst this isn’t a song that really needs clever musical analysis (not that I’d be the right man for that job anyway) it is a song I’m sure we’ll hear increasingly on the radio over the coming months. It’s fun, catchy and doesn’t annoy with repeat listens, qualities that radio stations really should stick to when playlisting new material.
Cobra Starship seem to have a heavy tour schedule in the US, but something tells me they’ll be jetting into the UK on a neon aeroplane very soon once this songs catches the publics ears. Personally I’ll be stealing this CD to play in the Blakemobile as we boys tour the UK; it’s the perfect song to start a heavy night to.
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