No Good Advice

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“No Good Advice”
Single by Girls Aloud from the album Sound of the Underground
B-side	"On a Round"
Released	May 12, 2003
Format	CD and DVD
Recorded	2003
Genre	Pop
Length	3:48
Label	Polydor
Writer(s)	Miranda Cooper Brian Higgins Lisa Cowling Nick Coler Xenomania Lene Nystrom
Producer	Xenomania
Girls Aloud singles chronology
"Sound of the Underground" (2002) "No Good Advice" (2003) "Life Got Cold" (2003)
The Sound of Girls Aloud track listing
"Biology" (3) "No Good Advice" (4) "I'll Stand by You" (5)
Alternate cover
UK DVD cover
Audio sample
Info "No Good Advice" (help·info)

"No Good Advice" is the second single by British all-female pop group Girls Aloud, taken from their debut album Sound of the Underground. The single was the follow-up single to the number one single "Sound of the Underground".

[edit] Release and reception

The song is about a girl who doesn't need "no good advice" and is doing things her own, independent way, but it's also got a hidden meaning—according to an interview with Peter Robinson for the Guardian in July 2004, Brian Higgins said that the song reflected his general mood of failure after a special deal between Xenomania and London Records fell through in 2000, and about persisting in spite of what people told him to do/not to do.^[1]

The single was released five months after Girls Aloud's hugely successful debut single "Sound of the Underground". While it was not as big a hit as its predecessor, it still managed to reach number two on the UK Singles Chart and became a big seller. It featured an all-new track "On a Round" as the b-side.

The explicit version of "No Good Advice" which appears on the rarities disc of The Sound of Girls Aloud special edition, replaces the line 'shut your mouth because it might show' with 'shut your mouth because your shit might show.' This is the only difference between the 'explicit' version and the album version. The song featured an introlude taken from part two of the Pink Floyd song "Another Brick in the Wall" when performed at the What Will The Neighbours Say? Live tour.

[edit] Music video

Girls Aloud in their music video for "No Good Advice". From left to right: Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Sarah Harding (on car), Nicola Roberts & Nadine Coyle.

The video for "No Good Advice" features the girls clad in metallic, silver, futuristic outfits which are seen on the cover of the original release of their album Sound of the Underground.

In one scene, the girls fade in and out around a rusty old car parked near a phone booth. They are joined by several men playing electric guitar, whom they flirt with while in various other poses. In a separate scene, while a black background with bright pinkish lights being emitted from behind, all five girls shake tambourines and dance. The last two scenes are intertwined with neon-coloured special effects animating the background.

The girls have stated in a special show, which was exclusively shown on MTV to promote their second album What Will The Neighbours Say?, that they hated the "No Good Advice" video shoot as both Cheryl and Sarah's trousers ripped and the make-up artist shouted at them. Viewers of FHM TV voted the video for "No Good Advice" as the fifth sexiest music video of all time in 2006.^[2]

[edit] Track listings and formats

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "No Good Advice".

[edit] Versions and appearances

These are the official versions and remixes and the release they appear on, of:

[edit] Charts

"No Good Advice" debuted at number two on the UK Singles Chart, held off by R. Kelly's "Ignition Remix".^[3]The single spent six weeks in the top forty. "No Good Advice" also charted at number thirteen on the UK Airplay Chart.

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