All Saints - Never Ever

It was recently brought to my attention by Stylus Magazine that All Saints had reunited and released a new single. A couple of the reviewers felt that the new single was on par with one of their other hits, "Never Ever;" it's not. So instead of submitting "Rock Steady" as my first post to this blog, i'm submitting "Never Ever" which is a pretty sweet moment in the recent history of popular, british, girl groups. It was released in the late nineties and I have no idea what position it reached on the charts, so we'll just assume number one. Now on to the salient details. I'm not quite sure what makes this song so great to me, although certainly musically worthwhile aspects like vocal talent and slick production are factors. More so, I think it's the nostalgia. The nostalgia mixed with the indie community's newfound acceptance of pop music.

The song is simply infectous, as was proved when I played it for my sister and despite not having heard it any time recently, she could still sing along to all the words. It was still stuck in her head.

The song does have its shortcomings, and one could certainly make the case that the lyrics are somewhat insipid, even for a mainstream act, although I think they're really no worse than anything else, and certainly serve a point in anchoring the chant-like parts of the song.

Perhaps I could have gone with a more inspired song for my first entry, but I like this song.

Download: All Saints - Never Ever