Angels With Dirty Faces

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In 2001, while the Sugababes were on a promotional tour in Japan, founding member Siobhán Donaghy decided to quit the group (according to pop music mythology, she made her escape through a bathroom window during a press conference, which, of course, is a total fabrication). At the time, Donaghy said that she left because she wanted to pursue other endeavors; later, she would say that infighting and bullying within the band had led her to exit. Whatever the reason, she would become the first Sugababe of many to leave the band throughout their chart tenure. Stepping up to the plate in Donaghy’s stead was former Atomic Kitten member Heidi Range. And with a new member came a new record label, as well as a new sound. While the Sugababes’ debut album flirted with UK garage and R&B, the approach on <i>Angels with Dirty Faces</i> was distinctly more pop. The band lost none of its insouciant coolne, though, and the music reflected thi. They recruited unlikely collaborator, such as cutting-edge Swedish outfit Bloodshy & Avant, who would go on to produce Britney Spears’ “Toxic,” and 2000s pop savants Brian Higgins and Miranda Cooper, known collectively as Xenomania, the production group later responsible for the sound of Girls Aloud. .

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