Everybody Wants to Be on TV
Encyclopedia
Everybody Wants to Be on TV is the second studio album by the English pop
band Scouting for Girls
. It was released on 12 April 2010 through Epic
. The first single on the album debuted on the Scott Mills
BBC Radio 1
show on 15 January 2010. The album artwork was released on January 19, 2010. It is the second time that producer Andy Green has collaborated with Scouting for Girls to produce an album. The album will be re-released and include new single "Love How It Hurts
" which was released on 10 July 2011, the re-release was originally to be released on 18 July 2011, however has since been pushed back to later in the year.
when they decided it needed rewriting. On their official website, Roy Stride said
"Take a Chance", is the fourth single from the album and is the official soundtrack of the Dutch
movie Loft. It was released on 10 December, the music video was also released on that same day.
commenting:
However, Andrew Mueller of Uncut
was more positive, commenting:
John Aizlewood of Q
. May 2010. gave the album 4 stars, commenting:
at number 2, being beaten only by Plan B
with his second album The Defamation of Strickland Banks
. Despite earning a second Top 3 album, the debut album had peaked at number 1. The following week the album fell to number 5 and then to number 8 on 2 May 2010. The album has so far spent a total of 7 weeks within the Top 40 Albums, falling from number 40 to number 54 on 6 June 2010. The album also debuted on the Irish Albums Chart
at #11, which is the same placement the previous album received.
Artwork
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
band Scouting for Girls
Scouting for Girls
Scouting for Girls are a Brit and Ivor Novello nominated band from London, formed in 2005 by Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse and Peter Ellard. Stride and Ellard met in the Cub Scouts and Churchouse met Stride on their first day at school. They have sold over 1.2 million albums and over 1.5 million...
. It was released on 12 April 2010 through Epic
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
. The first single on the album debuted on the Scott Mills
Scott Mills
Scott Robert Mills is a British radio DJ, television presenter and occasional actor, best known for presenting The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1...
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
show on 15 January 2010. The album artwork was released on January 19, 2010. It is the second time that producer Andy Green has collaborated with Scouting for Girls to produce an album. The album will be re-released and include new single "Love How It Hurts
Love How It Hurts
"Love How It Hurts" is a single by the English indie pop band Scouting for Girls , The song is released off the re-release of their album, "Everybody Wants to Be on TV". The song was released as a digital download on 10 July 2011...
" which was released on 10 July 2011, the re-release was originally to be released on 18 July 2011, however has since been pushed back to later in the year.
Recording
The album took over a year to initially write and prepare but, in summer 2009, Scouting for Girls began recording the final album and had completed it by autumn. They had the initial album written but scrapped it after the 2008 BRIT Awards2008 BRIT Awards
The 2008 BRIT Awards was the 28th edition of the biggest annual music awards in the United Kingdom. They are run by the British Phonographic Industry and took place on 20 February 2008 at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London. The ceremony attracted 6.1 million viewers, 800,000 more than the...
when they decided it needed rewriting. On their official website, Roy Stride said
"We had the album written, but decided it just wasn't good enough so we trashed it and started over again. I just wanted to write the perfect pop song. We are perfectionists!"
Singles
- "This Ain't a Love SongThis Ain't a Love Song (Scouting for Girls song)"This Ain't a Love Song" is a song by the English indie pop band Scouting for Girls. It is the first track and single from their second studio album, Everybody Wants to Be on TV. The song premiered on the Scott Mills BBC Radio 1 show on 15 January 2010. The artwork was released on the band's...
" is the first single from the album Everybody Wants to Be on TV. It was described by Amazon.comAmazon.comAmazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has separate websites for the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, and...
as "a powerful, soaring song". It was released on 28 March 2010 as a digital download, with the physical release the following day and debuted at number 1 on the UK Singles ChartUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
on 4 April 2010, marking the band's most successful single to date.
- "FamousFamous (Scouting for Girls song)"Famous" is a the second single by the English indie pop band Scouting for Girls to be released from their second studio album, Everybody Wants to Be on TV. The song was released as a digital download on 17 July 2010 , with a CD released the following day, on 18 July 2010...
" is the second single from the album and was released as a digital download on 11 July 2010, with the physical release the following day. On 4 July 2010, it debuted on the UK Singles ChartUK Singles ChartThe UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
at number 97.
- "Don't Want to Leave YouDon't Want to Leave You"Don't Want To Leave You" is a the third single by the English indie pop band Scouting for Girls to be released from their second studio album, Everybody Wants to Be on TV...
", is the third single from the album and is the new name for "Silly Song". It was released digitally on October 10th and physical release on the following day. It reached number 69 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Take a Chance", is the fourth single from the album and is the official soundtrack of the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
movie Loft. It was released on 10 December, the music video was also released on that same day.
- "Love How It HurtsLove How It Hurts"Love How It Hurts" is a single by the English indie pop band Scouting for Girls , The song is released off the re-release of their album, "Everybody Wants to Be on TV". The song was released as a digital download on 10 July 2011...
", is the fifth single released from the album. It was released on 10 July 2011.
Reception
Everybody Wants to Be on TV received mixed reviews, with Arwa Haider of MetroMetro (Associated Metro Limited)
Metro is a free daily newspaper in the United Kingdom published by Associated Newspapers Ltd . It is available from Monday to Friday each week on many public transport services across the United Kingdom.-History:The paper was launched in London in 1999, and can now be found in 14 UK urban centres...
commenting:
"Everybody Wants To Be On TV is another charm offensive that's somehow easy to resist. Perhaps it's the repetitive themes, plodding tempos or clichéd observations. Their pop rock serenades don't even paint women in a particularly pretty light; they're invariably heartless ex-girlfriends, hussies or two-dimensional posh girls. Interestingly, they're open to all kinds of modern effects (including Auto-Tune on Little Miss Naughty) yet the music sounds opportunistic rather than adventurously creative. Their dogged songwriting approach makes for some naggingly catchy choruses (Good Time Girl, On The Radio) but mostly this is the sound of a band dry-humping the mainstream."
However, Andrew Mueller of Uncut
UNCUT (magazine)
Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London. It is available across the English-speaking world, and focuses on music, but also includes film and books sections...
was more positive, commenting:
"It's easy to forget, listening to Scouting For Girls' second album, that the past 15 years have happened. Everybody Wants To Be On TV is note-perfect BritpopBritpopBritpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
: jaunty tunes, strident accents, faintly superior sneering at the pastimes of lesser persons. This is fine, up to a point: the upful This Ain't A Love Song and On The Radio will energise student discos as "Girls & Boys" once did. Unfortunately, Scouting For Girls occasionally meander out of their depth. Silly Song wanders the wrong side of the slender line dividing Snow PatrolSnow PatrolSnow Patrol are an alternative rock band from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994 as an indie rock band, the band is now based in Glasgow...
from James BluntJames BluntJames Hillier Blount , better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter and musician, and former army officer, whose debut album, Back to Bedlam and single releases, including "You're Beautiful" and "Goodbye My Lover", brought him to fame in 2005...
."
John Aizlewood of Q
Q (magazine)
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...
. May 2010. gave the album 4 stars, commenting:
"There are no curveballs, no experimental digressions, nothing other than 10 of Roy Stride's focused slabs of honed guitar pop, summed up by the first 26 seconds of opening track This Ain't A Love Song, where soaring keyboards explode into a chanted "na na na". Yet for all Stride's laddishness, this is a sophisticated album that never coasts or repeats itself. Making pop sound this effortless, this joyous, is no easy task. And SFG have more reason than most to lament the demise of the single, for there's 10 of them here. A joy."
Track listing
Chart performance
"Everybody Wants To Be On TV" debuted on the UK Albums ChartUK Albums Chart
The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
at number 2, being beaten only by Plan B
Plan B (rapper)
Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew primarily known as Plan B or Ben Drew, is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, actor and film director from Forest Gate, London. Plan B first emerged as a hip hop artist releasing his critically acclaimed debut album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words in 2006...
with his second album The Defamation of Strickland Banks
The Defamation of Strickland Banks
The Defamation of Strickland Banks is the second studio album from British rapper Plan B which was released on 12 April 2010. The album is a departure from the sound heard on Plan B's debut album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words, with the rapper's sophomore effort providing a showcase for much...
. Despite earning a second Top 3 album, the debut album had peaked at number 1. The following week the album fell to number 5 and then to number 8 on 2 May 2010. The album has so far spent a total of 7 weeks within the Top 40 Albums, falling from number 40 to number 54 on 6 June 2010. The album also debuted on the Irish Albums Chart
Irish Albums Chart
The Irish Albums Chart is the Irish music industry standard albums popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on its behalf by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured electronically...
at #11, which is the same placement the previous album received.
| Chart (2010) | Peak Position |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart... |
2 |
| Irish Album Chart | 11 |
Performance credits
Band- Roy Stride – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
, lead vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Greg Churchouse – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, backing vocals - Pete Ellard – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
Technical credits
Production- Andy Green – producerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
, mixing engineerMixing engineerA mix engineer is the person responsible for incorporating all the different recorded elements of music to make the final version of a song. These mixing professionals have many years of experience and training with audio equipment which has enabled them to master the art of audio mixing... - Julian Willmott – audio engineer
- Ted Jenson – masteringAudio masteringMastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
Artwork
- Lisa Peardon; Dean Chalky; Ellis Parrinder; Lisa Gold – photography
- Fern's Dad – Artwork