WooWoos Interview with Popjustice

PopjusticeBlog WooWoos: some emailed answers to some emailed questions

SOME QUESTIONS WE EMAILED TO WOOWOOS, AND THE ANSWERS THEY EMAILED BACK You know how it is. You want some hard answers to some hard questions and you don't want any chitchat getting in the way. The perfect solution: an email interview. Let's see how new warbling ladies WooWoos cope in this most harsh of interview environments. So, 'WooWoos'. You are amazing. Is this correct or incorrect, and why? Jess: I'd say 'correct'. Why? Read on… What are the most exciting facts about each of you? Jess: Russell Brand is my Dad. I directed Goodfellas. I've wrestled a blue whale. Nicky: I’m fun, fearless and looking for a good time. At least that’s what it says on my dating profile. Tasie: I am on a 'save all the battery chickens' life mission. Fascinatingly all three WooWoos were all born on the same day. What are the most boring facts about each of you? JessL: Everything I just said is false. David Attenborough is my idol. (But I don't think that's boring to be honest.) Tasie: We drink copious amounts of tea. I have an abnormal obsession with crocodiles. Circles clumped together ridiculously freak me out. An example? Caviar. Nicky: Well, there was this one time where I walked down to shops to get a loaf of bread... In one word, what are your songs about? Tasie: Experiences. Jess: Life. Nicky: Vegetables. (See 'Fizzy Lettuce' for reference.) How did WooWoos come into being? Jess: Nicky and Tasie stood outside my house and threatened to kill my family. Why does good pop music exist? Tasie: Because otherwise Popjustice wouldn’t exist! Jess: Because people need a device to transport them back to key moments in life. And what is the point of this thing we call life? Tasie: To eat good food! Nicky: LOVE. Jess: Pavlova. You sound quite a lot like first-album-era Sugababes, which is great. Is that the idea? Jess: No, I dont think anyone sets out to be anyone do they? But as it happens we are changing our names to Siobhan, Keisha and Mutya. (I bagsy Mutya.) First-album-era Sugababes got dropped because nobody bought their records. Not so great. Is that also the idea? Nicky: Oh shit! WE’RE DOOMED! Jess: HA! We live in fear. But if it happens we'll just chuck one of us out. Tasie: We'll just change the lineup and then sell lots of records. We will get rid of Jess. Oh what the hey, let's just replace both of them. Are you sure about the name 'Woo Woos'? It is not too late to change your minds. Jess: No… I reckon we have about two weeks. What do you suggest? Nicky: Cheeky Girls was already taken so we had settle with WooWoos. Tasie: WooWoos is a pretty ridiculous name but then again, the music industry is pretty ridiculous. What can you do to convince the world that you are not a bunch o' fools? Jess: Hide. Nicky: Wear glasses. Tasie: Keep our mouths shut for as long as we can manage. And then give you a two hour lecture on String Theory. VERDICT: They did quite well. * WooWoos' debut single is out as a sort of 'indie' release on Moshi Moshi; their album's out on Island in 2012. You can find out more about them at their Facebook page.

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New Band of The Day WooWoos ~ Guardian

WooWoos (No 1,127)

Sassy and smart, these angels with dirty faces look set to be a subversive girl-pop group along the lines of Sugababes

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• • Paul Lester
  • guardian.co.uk, Friday 14 October 2011 17.25 BST

Woohoo for the WooWoos. Photograph: Laura Crouchley

Hometown: London.

The lineup: Nicky, Tasie and Jess.

The background: WooWoos are a girl trio with the potential to fill the gap left by Sugababes. Yes, we realise Sugagabes are still going, but we mean Sugababes when they were good, when Keisha, Mutya and Siobhan were in the group, not the three ciphers they've got now. We're not sure if WooWoos write their own songs as did the aforementioned Buchanan, Buena and Donaghy, but they have about them an air of credibility. They're even releasing their debut single on Moshi Moshi Singles Club, like Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, the Drums and Lykke Li before them, ahead of their first release for Island next year. And there's a smartness and sassiness to their songs that suggest they had some hand in their creation, that they're not just three Auto-Tuned high-street honeyz. They're funny, too, adding weight to our theory that they didn't just turn up at the last minute at the studio and sing the lyrics – which, probably not coincidentally, are sassy and smart – like blank automata. They did a terrific sparky piss-taking, self-deprecating interview with PopJustice recently in which one of them, Jess, announced her proudest moment was wrestling a blue whale while Tasie declared her intention to offer a two-hour lecture on String Theory. OK, maybe you had to be there, but it made us laugh.

We'll overlook that they failed to bring their obvious intelligence to bear on the titling of their debut single, Fizzy Lettuce, because the music's not half-bad, and besides, the naming of it signals a desire to delve beyond cliches and rote relationship rhymes, to balance out the glossy surfaces of their music with some gritty plain-speaking. Fizzy Lettuce? Apparently it's about when an affair has lost its lustre and ends up like the last bit of titular dried-up salad at the bottom of the fridge. The music itself is 90s trip-hop revisited, with a pop chorus that hardly panders to daytime radio playlist constraints ("And I yell at her, and I'm begging her, just compelling her…"). We've heard two more of their songs, and they're just as fine. Lotto is neo-Motown with a hip-hop undercarriage and another strong chorus that, again, secretes its sting within something sweet (it's about the random nature of pulling in a club). And there's one called America that is, basically, Round Round (slight return), and makes us wonder whether WooWoos have around them the same (writing/production/marketing) team as Sugababes did at their peak. The song features some name-cannibalising "woo-woos" on the chorus. But what is a Woo Woo? Their press release tells us it's "a person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena" while Wikipedia informs us that it's an alcoholic drink made of vodka, peach schnapps and cranberry juice. One website couldn't help thinking that it sounded like cheeky innuendo for female genitalia, and whether it is or it isn't, you can't help feeling that these WooWoos are sugar-babes with subversive intent.

The buzz: "Combining the cute, effortless vocals of Sugababes 1.0 and the trip hop-meets-pop production of Sugababes 2.0, WooWoos could be out new favourite girl band" – like1999.blogspot.com.

The truth: They're angels with dirty faces.

Most likely to: Acquire a cult following.

Least likely to: Acquire an occult following.

What to buy: Debut single Fizzy Lettuce is released on 21 November by Moshi Moshi Singles Club, with an album to follow on Island in 2012.

File next to: Sugababes, Remi Nicole, Girls Aloud, Mutya Buena.

Links: soundcloud.com/WOOWOOS.

Monday's new band: Family of the Year.