Hometown: London.
The lineup: Monique Robert, Ashley Shaw, Daisy Evans, Chelsey Reynolds and Seyi Joshua.
The background: From Above are a new girl group whose meteoric rise is being managed by Mathew Knowles – you might be vaguely aware of his daughter Solange, if not Beyoncé. Well, new-ish. Some of the members have been in the entertainment industry for a while. Two of them were contestants in Dance X, a BBC reality series we refused to watch on the grounds that it made us feel like we were being unfaithful to Strictly, one was in S Club Juniors (who later turned into S Club 8, much as Joy Division morphed into New Order), one worked as a dancer for Kanye West and Ne-Yo (ie she did concerts with them, she wasn't on the pole at either 'Ye or Yo's house), and another sang with the London Community Gospel Choir in her early teens and wrote a track for Spice Girl Mel C's debut album.
This will either strike you as an impressive collective CV or a motley collection of career highs ("mediums" is perhaps more accurate). And you could go either way when you learn they are already the subjects of an MTV reality show, Breaking From Above, in which five British girls and two Americans vie for a place in the final five-woman lineup, although confusingly/mysteriously the album they're set to record is already completed (presumably by the cast listed above) and about to go on-sale on iTunes, unless we're completely mistaken, which of course we can never rule out.
Tell you what, though. Going by clips we've seen, being in a girl group these days doesn't look like much fun. Then again, as you might have read in the Guardian on Friday, 'twas ever thus – being in the Crystals, for example, was no picnic. No, but this looks like torture, a series of public humiliations, and a process of physical, vocal, media and choreography training known euphemistically as the Star Power Boot Camp, one designed to weed out the weakest of the girls. Maybe the pressure's so great because so much wedge is being spent on the venture: a list of the stellar writers, producers and choreographers involved in putting them through their paces reads like a who's who of stellar writers, producers and choreographers – suffice to say they have, variously, worked with everyone from Lady Gaga, Britney and Beyoncé to Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown and Maroon 5. Oh, and N-Dubz. [source]
The lineup: Monique Robert, Ashley Shaw, Daisy Evans, Chelsey Reynolds and Seyi Joshua.
The background: From Above are a new girl group whose meteoric rise is being managed by Mathew Knowles – you might be vaguely aware of his daughter Solange, if not Beyoncé. Well, new-ish. Some of the members have been in the entertainment industry for a while. Two of them were contestants in Dance X, a BBC reality series we refused to watch on the grounds that it made us feel like we were being unfaithful to Strictly, one was in S Club Juniors (who later turned into S Club 8, much as Joy Division morphed into New Order), one worked as a dancer for Kanye West and Ne-Yo (ie she did concerts with them, she wasn't on the pole at either 'Ye or Yo's house), and another sang with the London Community Gospel Choir in her early teens and wrote a track for Spice Girl Mel C's debut album.
This will either strike you as an impressive collective CV or a motley collection of career highs ("mediums" is perhaps more accurate). And you could go either way when you learn they are already the subjects of an MTV reality show, Breaking From Above, in which five British girls and two Americans vie for a place in the final five-woman lineup, although confusingly/mysteriously the album they're set to record is already completed (presumably by the cast listed above) and about to go on-sale on iTunes, unless we're completely mistaken, which of course we can never rule out.
Tell you what, though. Going by clips we've seen, being in a girl group these days doesn't look like much fun. Then again, as you might have read in the Guardian on Friday, 'twas ever thus – being in the Crystals, for example, was no picnic. No, but this looks like torture, a series of public humiliations, and a process of physical, vocal, media and choreography training known euphemistically as the Star Power Boot Camp, one designed to weed out the weakest of the girls. Maybe the pressure's so great because so much wedge is being spent on the venture: a list of the stellar writers, producers and choreographers involved in putting them through their paces reads like a who's who of stellar writers, producers and choreographers – suffice to say they have, variously, worked with everyone from Lady Gaga, Britney and Beyoncé to Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown and Maroon 5. Oh, and N-Dubz. [source]
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