To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Girls Aloud have announced they are to release a special deluxe edition of their debut album “Sound Of The Underground” – the first in a series of exciting reissues of the band’s studio albums.
Today, the group have released an alternate video from their single of the same name, to go alongside the alternate vocal mix which was released last week.
The Sound Of The Underground Alternative Vocal Mix music video was created from the original 35mm films by editor and director Chris Fox.
Chris said: “You never know what you might find when you dig into the raw footage from a music video and we were amazed to find that director Phil Griffin had recorded each of the girls singing every line of the song… In total, the band recorded about four hours of footage and there were so many beautiful moments to squeeze into the video. I wanted to give each section of the shoot its moment to shine: the performance, the slow motion, the glitter drop. There are fewer fast-paced cuts so we can soak up every moment and bask in the glory of Girls Aloud. The film negatives were rescanned in true 4K – giving fans a crystal-clear look into the past – and the final edit was colour graded to closely match the original music video.”
Reminiscing on the creation of the “Sound Of The Underground” album Nadine Coyle recalls: “The aim was to bring in as much creativity as possible and make something as strong as the single ‘Sound of the Underground’.”
“I would sit down with Brian and he’d say something like, ‘OK, so you’re a 17-year-old girl from Northern Ireland, now living in London – what’s going on in your life?’ Those chats were really important because they helped to drive our musical direction and make our songs genuine.”
Listen to Sound of the Underground (Alternative Vocal Mix): https://girlsaloud.lnk.to/ig1
To celebrate 20 years since the release of Girls Aloud’s debut album, Sound Of The Underground has been given a full deluxe makeover with a 20th anniversary edition reissue.
Click here to pre-order the 20th anniversary edition.
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