Scouting For Girls: 'It's Not About You'

Released on Monday, Aug 4 2008

Published Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 13:36 BST | By Nick Levine | 10 comments

Scouting For Girls: 'It's Not About You'

It's almost too easy to take a pop at Scouting For Girls. Their trio of top ten hits, 'Elvis Ain't Dead', 'Heartbeat' and 'She's So Luv-ver-ley', were simplistic, repetitive and as filled with inspiration as the average ham sandwich. But, in their favour, they had choruses catchy enough to persuade half a million people to fork out £7.99 for the group's debut album.

'It's Not About You', the fourth single from the album, is pretty similar to what came before it: a simplistic, repetitive pop song that won't change your view of the world, pop music or the band themselves. Sadly, this time around the chorus isn't especially catchy, which means that Scouting For Girls no longer sound like peddlers of slight but effective pop fare; they just sound moronic.

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Sam, England, on January 18th, 2009
Loved Their Songs The First Time I Heard Them The Second Time They Lose Their Sparkle This Song Seemed To Get Boreing Straight After The Video Came Out As I Realized That This Song Is Nothing Special.

Steve, York, on August 14th, 2008
PLEASE someone stop these morons making records, every one of their pathetic songs sounds as if it has been written by a 5 year old, their lyrics are juvenile and childish. Utter inane rubbish. Scouting for Girls is all they will ever do, they are never gonna get any girl singing crap like this!!!

Richard, Kent, on August 3rd, 2008
Isn't pop supposed to be melodious fun with a bit of a hook ? Scouting have both of these in abundance.. Lighten up people, no room for the haters..

Pete, on July 25th, 2008
Dire. How they sell albums I'll never understand.

Allan, London, on July 23rd, 2008
I was listening to this song on the radio the other day, i kept on thinking it was going to go to the 'She's So Lovely' chorus. When it didn't, it was like there as no chorus, on the plus side, I didn't have to hear the 'Shes so lovely' chorus. I really hate that. This music is offensively bland, and not even good pop.

Ted, London, on July 23rd, 2008
Totally uninspired unoriginal twaddle.

Ian, London, on July 22nd, 2008
The music is rubbish. Lead singer's cute though.

DB, York, on July 22nd, 2008
From your previous reviews it's clear that no one at ds likes SFG. I actually think this song is better than some of their others. It is quite catchy and I would say it's less "simple" than Heartbeat for instance. It's a pleasant listen.

Matt, Lancs, on July 22nd, 2008
Thats a bit harsh to be honest - moronic, really? They try to do something different and you shoot them down!