TNL’s the kind of station that will never let you forget the many suits Good Charlotte used to wear when they were hollering about how they ‘just wanna live’. Law suit, white suit, black suit, birthday suit…and then the falsetto chorus.And it’s never a bad thing to wave a few tribute flags to the bygones of the hit parade, when the hits are that good.
Franz Ferdinand seem to be doing just that with this World Premier, which is the second single from the FF’s album, Tonight Franz Ferdinand,.
Back in their art school suit, it’s Franz Ferdinand tossing their groovy batons with lovable flare as they march their way onto the dance floor, grinning that all-Kinks smile, while winkin’ at ya some eye-rolling pick up lines.
No You Girls uses the same intensely colorful formula that sent Take Me Out into an anthemic momentum like Rosa Parks on the Indie – chart bus. Sitting on the radio-worthy side for all the other pop-loving white folk to see.
Filled with propulsive and colorful guitar riffs and an irresistible electro-pop tempo, the song is infectiously very TNL.
And one thing’s for sure, this song will be spotted a mile away, as soon as that guitar intro begins. The riff intro and continuous underlying frills got a little glam rock, a little retro charm and a little quirky cheekiness that combine into something you can’t scowl at, whether you’re hearing it in the middle of traffic, in the middle of your employers ego trip rant or in the middle of a valentino day dream, because you just can’t scowl at four punk-pop dance-rockers grinning gleefully at you, even if they are wearing really tight pants.
No You Girls is the slower, ballad-like sister-track or counterpart of Katherine Kiss Me, which is also featured on the same album.
“Its two versions of the same event, said frontman Alex Kapranos in an interview with Rollingstone, “One with the sort of exaggeration with which you would tell it to your friends — and the other way, which is more vulnerable.”
Check out an unplugged studio version of the track here…
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And this is what it sounds like plugged in and live…
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And this is the album version…
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