That Rare Moment When A Girl Band Member Goes Solo

Best Songs Of 2013: #15-11

15. "Strangers" by Seven Lions & Myon & Shane 54 feat. Tove Lo

This is where things start to get really good. "Strangers" is an amazing dance song that starts off like a love song, then goes into fun dub step part, then gets all quiet and you can feel all the emotions Tove Lo is bringing, before properly going off into a dance floor belter. All in all, a magnificently romantic EDM song that brings Seven Lions, Myon & Shane 54, and Tove Lo to the top 15.

14. "Sweetness Alive" by Goldroom feat. Say Lou Lou

If there was a song where paradise was personified, it would be Sweetness Alive. Goldroom takes all the heartwarming synths to a tropical land of mystical romance and happiness. He even knew that Say Lou Lou could bring it to the next level thanks to their heavenly vocals. Ultimately, this song should have been number 1 in at least 80 countries. But at least it was number 1 in my heart (this was a really cheesy post I'm sorry, this song is really just that magical).

13. "Gentlemen" by The Saturdays

Oh dear god, now THIS WAS UNEXPECTED. This throwback song by The Saturdays was definitely not something anyone expected. Basically, each Saturday takes a turn talking about how guys are dicks and gentlemen are only from 1995 (the year I was born in may I add!!!) before going into a rap about hot guys. Brilliant. "GO GO GO 90's!"

12. "Work Bitch" by Britney Spears

You wanna hit single? You wanna become an icon again? You wanna create one of the best songs ever? You better work bitch! And that's exactly what Britney Spears did. 10/10 Godney, well done!

11. "Rough 'n' Soothe" by Ronika

Ronika has always been a favorite of mine and once again brought an amazing 70's disco throwback with a tropical twist this time. Even though I have no idea what the hell a Rough and Soothe is. Now, this song is spectacular, which means the top 10 must be really fucking good. Get excited!

An Artist Retrospective: The Saturdays' Finest Selection Of Hits

I know that I might have thrown minor shade at The Saturdays when I talked about the new girl group in town Neon Jungle. However, I have to say that The Sats are one of the best groups in pop and have consistently put other bands like The Script, One Direction, and The Wanted to shame. For the past 5 and 1/2 years, Rochelle, Mollie, Una, Vanessa, and Frankie have kept us dancing, singing, and crying (lots of ballads with these girls) and we Just Can't Get Enough.

With 4 and a half albums to their name, The Saturdays are readying to release their first collection of Greatest Hits. Entitled The Finest Selection, the 20 track list is mouthwatering to any fan of music. Granted, the Saturdays discography is by no means consistent. I mean their only #1 hit in the UK is the amateur trop-pop anthem What About Us, which seemed like an excuse to give Sean Paul some work (there I go, throwing shade again). However, like the almighty Girls Aloud, the lows only make the Saturdays' highs that much more monumental. Allow me to elaborate while you listen to their newest single, Song Of The Day recipient "What Are You Waiting For?"

Back in 2008, the girls got together with each girl having a signature characteristic that makes a girl group legendary. Mollie is gorgeous and hilarious.

Rochelle has some of the best stage presence in the business right now.

Una's songwriting ability and red hair divinity make her a worthy successor to Geri Haliwell & Nicola Roberts's place as the ginger goddess.

Frankie's got the moves to back up that fierceness.

And Vanessa has got some pipes that would give Christina Aguilera a run for her money.

Basically they're gorgeous, gifted, and flawless. Let's look at one last gif of their perfect hair flipping game.

But it's all about the music, isn't it? Good thing that's pretty good too. Their debut single "If This Is Love" may sound familiar but the girls turn the sample into an infectious glittery track that announced their arrival. Follow up single "Up" solidified their status as the brand new bitches in town and their first album is by far their best. JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH!

They continued their reign as pop royalty with a string of singles that included the Kelly Clarkson almost single "Forever Is Over", their introduction to clubby dance music "Notorious" and the retro referencing "Disco Love." Their discography really is astounding and The Finest Selection might be the best greatest hits album released this side of the 2010s! If you're still unconvinced, let's just look at the Saturdays best singles before the amazing "What Are You Waiting For?"

5. Not Giving Up

The Saturdays' latest single didn't make an impact on the charts that much but it is a real highlight on their newest album Living For The Weekend. The video also displays the group at their most confident on top of the positive energetic dance track, taking in their majesty as the most experienced girl group since the Aloud and Sugababes.

4. Higher (feat. Flo Rida)

Forgiving the fact that they had to team up with Flo Rida, this was the Saturdays' moment to shine and really should have been their first #1. They also lived my dream of dancing in a traffic jam, so good for you girls.

3. Work

The most underrated Saturdays song also happens to be the best song off their first album Chasing Lights. The attitude and sass from each of the girls as they tell their men to get to work is a life lesson we should all take away.

2. Gentleman

Now this was unexpected! This retro rap-pop hybrid lamenting over rude men has some of the best lines of 2013. Highlights include "I let you taste my rainbow" "He already had the milk so why would he go buy the cow?" and "if he's been cheating on me, then he'll probably cheat on you." That is lyrical gold right there. But the best part is that insane rap at the end where they basically list all the guys they want to get with. If nothing else, the girls have good taste in men (minus Kanye and Larry King). But Kellan Lutz is mine okay?

1. All Fired Up

GAMECHANGER ALERT! This song has to be the highlight of The Saturdays career as this balls to the wall raveathon went down in history as one of the top 10 moments in girlband history. Thanks to Xenomania, the girls surpassed their predecessors to finally take the lead as the best girl band in the world for a moment.

So here's to 5 years of the Saturdays helping to make pop a better place. And hopefully, there will be another 5 years together before each of the girls goes on to a fruitful solo career!

Song Of The Day: "What Are You Waiting For?" by The Saturdays

Don't cha wish you were in this selfie?

The Saturdays are back and better than ever. After four and a half adequate studio albums, around 20 singles with varying degrees of success, and one number one single ("What About Us" but let's try and forget that, shall we?), the new experts at this whole girl band game The Saturdays have decided it's time to release a greatest hits album with the single-referencing Finest Selection later this year (brownie points for anyone that can name it). And as with any greatest hits compilation, the girls have decided to record a couple new songs and have released "What Are You Waiting For?" as their newest single.

First off, no it is not a Gwen Stefani cover, although that would be equally as amazing. This insane pop song screams Song of the Summer. Created by the pop gods over at Xenomania, who created their other greatest single "All Fired Up," What Are You Waiting For? is a shouty singalong joyride that could be listened to just as well on a road trip or in da clerb. It has the same reckless quality that made Icona Pop and Neon Jungle songs so addictive but amped up 3x as much at least. I mean, there are three choruses. THREE BLOODY CHORUSES! ONE AFTER THE OTHER! This ridicumazing bonkers anthem is officially my new summer anthem and should be yours too. So as the girls would say, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? (repeated at least 20 times)

Future Smash Alert: Are You Ready for "Trouble" by Neon Jungle?

Let's not beat around the bush (did you catch that jungle reference?). We are in a severe girl group shortage at the moment and pop can never really be amazing unless one is going about somewhere making amaze balls music. In 2013, we saw the end of Girls Aloud (WE WILL NEVER FORGET) and Sugababes 2.0, which really could have ended after that last forgettable single they released. Meanwhile, the Origibabes, aka Mutya Keisha Siobhan, came back with a brilliant single and decided to go away into obscurity for a while, as all major artists do. Currently, The Saturdays are readying a Greatest Hits album only, Little Mix is nearing the end of their album campaign for Salute and Danity Kane was cut down to a trio before the release of their comeback single (Fifth Harmony who?).

Indeed, it looked as if we may have entered a dark age where girl groups died out and desolation could be heard from every corner. We may as well have gone through another ice age that killed all the dinosaurs, that's how cold life felt.

Then, out of nowhere, Neon Jungle decided to casually go about saving the world as we know it and reinvigorating life into the cliché idea of what a girl group should sound like. In summer 2013, "Trouble" by the Jungle came out and signaled the arrival of a hurricane sized force in pop. Who were these four stunning modelesque beauties trashing this house while playing with puppies? Well they happened to be Jess Plummer, Asami Zdrenka, Shereen Cutkelvin, and Amira McCarthey. With "Trouble" being their debut single, Neon Jungle cemented their position as the new girl group in town. 

The song's revolutionary ability to set itself apart from the rest of mainstream radio is thanks to its writers, the amazing pop entities known as Cocknbullkid and Fear of Tigers (those names alone deserve a Grammy).With enough swagger and badassery to earn themselves a place on Bad Girls Club, the high energy Icona Pop-like catchiness of "Trouble" will not get out of your head for at least 72 hours and this is coming from a premed student so you know it's true.  Not only did it give the girls their first top 20 chart hit in the UK and become one of the best songs of 2013, it gave them enough traction to cross the pond and perform at last year's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show alongside pop juggernauts like Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy.

The girls kept the momentum going by releasing 2 more top 10 hit singles "Braveheart" and "Welcome to the Jungle" which was essentially their way of saying, "Remember 'Spice Up Your Life'? Yeah, we're Neon Jungle, bitches!" The reckless clubby feel of these songs fit along with their debut single and their album set to be released at the end of July is sure to be among one of 2014's finest.

The best part about the band is that they know they're awesome. So awesome that they release covers of other amazing music, thereby compiling the collective amazingness into one performance. So awesome that the girls regularly show how much they love their fans through different media. And so awesome that the UK can't possibly contain their amazingness and they have decided to release "Trouble" in America THIS SUMMER! If that doesn't become a smash hit in the States, I will have lost all faith in college girls in the club who would eat this song up. But in the meantime, I'll be bouncing up and down to this song until the 72 hour rush it gives me dies away, which will probably never happen. And all I have to say to that is...