Girls Aloud: 'Can't Speak French'

With Cheryl Cole enduring a relationship crisis as grim as it is newsworthy, and Nadine Coyle failing to turn up for this year's Brit Awards, these are troubled times on the good ship Girls Aloud. Fortunately, new single 'Can't Speak French' is strong enough to steer the group towards calmer waters.

A typically ballsy Xenomania concoction, all shuffling beats, sad, lovely melodies and a bassline that buzzes like a horny bee, it finds the girls at their glummest, desperately trying to impress a guy who turns their "dust to gold" but doesn't realise it. With enough swoons and sighs to keep even a Mills & Boon reader happy, it's the best exercise in pop melancholy since, well, 'Call The Shots'.


> Click here for our review of Girls Aloud's Tangled Up album