The Saturdays: 'If This Is Love'

With Girls Aloud (four studio albums) and Sugababes (five) getting on a bit in pop terms, it was only a matter of time before somebody put together a new girl group. And here they are. The Saturdays, signed to Girls Aloud's label Fascination Records, are a fresh-faced five-piece featuring two former members of S Club Juniors.

This debut single is nothing that Rachel Stevens couldn't have given us three or four years ago: a midtempo electropop tune with a memorable chorus and a crafty Yazoo sample slipped in for bonus street cred. It's a solid, promising effort, but not really in the same league as the best debuts by British girl groups: 'Sound of the Underground', 'Overload, 'Wannabe', 'Aie A Mwana'. (Erm, scrub that last one.)


> Click here to watch the 'If This Is Love' video