Call the Shots

Call the Shots

Infobox Single
Name = Call The Shots


Artist = Girls Aloud
Album = Tangled Up
B-side = "Rehab" (Live Lounge cover)
"Blow Your Cover"cite web | url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000X9XOME?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwumusiccouk-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B000X9XOME | title=Amazon.co.uk: Call the Shots [CD 2] | accessdate=2007-11-03 ]
Released = "Digital" - November 19 2007 (UK)
"CD Single" - November 23 2007 (Ireland)
November 26 2007 (UK)
Format = CD
Digital download
Recorded = London, England
Genre = Pop, Electropop
Length = 3:43
Label = Fascination
Writer = Miranda Cooper
Brian Higgins
Tim Powell
Lisa Cowling
Giselle Somerville
Producer = Xenomania
Last single = "Sexy! No No No..."
(2007)
This single = "Call The Shots"
(2007)
Next single = "Can't Speak French"
(2008)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Tangled Up
Type = studio
prev_track =
prev_no =
this_track = "Call The Shots"
track_no = 1
next_track = "Close to Love"
next_no = 2Extra album cover
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Background = Pink


Lower caption = UK CD2 cover

"Call The Shots" is the seventeenth single by the British girl group Girls Aloud, and the second to be taken from their fourth studio album "Tangled Up". The single was released on November 26 2007. [cite news|url=http://www.girlsaloud.com/site.php|title=Call the Shots - Out Now!|accessdate=2008-02-03|date=2007-10-26]

Release and reception

The single leaked weeks before its radio premiere. Despite this, a 30-second clip appeared on the Girls' official website. [http://www.girlsaloud.com/site.php Girls Aloud Official Website] ] The song's first televised performance was not until their appearance on The X Factor on 17 November 2007, [ [http://itn.co.uk/news/92da279eb70130b1f9866195c63c5b92.html Girls Aloud dish out X-Factor advice] ITN] although they performed the song at a UNICEF charity ball. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UabVqfLYFV4 The Stanhope Alliance Charity Ball 2007 (part 1 of 2) - 3:25] YouTube] They also performed the song on The Paul O'Grady Show and This Morning.

Cheryl Cole told the "Daily Star" that the song is her favourite from the new album, and that it "gives me goosebumps". [cite news|url=http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/15007/Cheryl-s-flop-fear/|title=Cheryl's flop fear|accessdate=2007-09-08|date=2007-09-08|publisher=Daily Star] Kim Dawson, a writer for the same publication, said that it was "one of their best yet". [cite news|url=http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/18592/Girls-Aloud-Sketch-London/|title=Girls Aloud: Sketch, London|accessdate=2007-10-19|date=2007-10-19|publisher=Daily Star] The "Daily Star" described the song as "classy electronic Euro-pop with real edge" in their exclusive track by track review of "Tangled Up" on 7 November 2007. [cite news|url=http://www.dailystar.co.uk/playlist/view/20415/Girls-Aloud-track-by-track/|title=Girls Aloud Track By Track|accessdate=2007-11-12|date=2007-11-07|publisher=Daily Star] "Digital Spy" also praised the song, calling it "more tasteful than some of the more lurid, poke-you-in-the-eyes pop glories of previous hits". [ [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/a79696/girls-aloud-call-the-shots.html Digital Spy Music Review: 'Call The Shots'] ]

More recently the song won the 2008 Popjustice £20 Music Prize

Music video

The video was directed by Sean de Sparengo, who previously directed Take That's video for "I'd Wait for Life". It was filmed in Malibu, California, and features the girls in purple dresses performing on Malibu Beach at night with flames and white fabric surrounding them. [cite news|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=485392&in_page_id=1773|title=Cheryl Cole sends a very cheeky message from LA|accessdate=2007-10-03|date=2007-10-03|publisher=Daily Mail]

The girls are also shown in different locations with individual story lines. Cheryl is simply seen looking out of a sunny window. Kimberley is sat in front of a mirror, putting on make-up. Her boyfriend comes to get her and they hug, though Kimberley appears to be sad. Nadine is seated on a couch, flipping through photographs with her and a man. She takes a lighter to the photos and sets them alight. Nicola is lying down by a swimming pool, running her fingers through the water. Her boyfriend walks up to her with a bouquet of flowers tosses them into the water. Sarah watches her boyfriend in the shower and goes through his phone.

The video premièred on The Box, Smash Hits! TV and The Hits on October 17 2007.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Call the Shots". [cite news|url=http://www.girlsaloud.co.uk/site.php|title=Call the Shots - The Tracklistings|accessdate=2007-10-29|publisher=Girls Aloud Official Site]

Live Performances

The band performed the track live at the following events:

* The X Factor
* G-A-Y
* The Paul O'Grady Show
* Top Of The Pops (Christmas Special)
* Live At The Local
* Tangled Up Tour
* BBC Radio 1: Jo Whiley's Live Lounge
* This Morning

B-Side

On 6 November 2007, a 29 second clip of "Blow Your Cover" was previewed on the Internet through online music store 7digital.com. [http://www.7digital.com/artists/girls-aloud/call-the-shots-(1)/ Call the Shots] , 7digital.com] The song leaked on 22 November 2007, due to the Irish release of "Call the Shots". [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZSMItGquU "Blow Your Cover"] . YouTube. Added 23 November 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2007.] The song was legally available from 26 November 2007 onward, along with the A-side.

Covers

Artists such as Mark Morriss, [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBo4-DF31dQ&NR=1 YouTube - Call the Shots - Mark Morriss (Girls Aloud cover) ] ] Smashing Pumpkins [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH2vr1H4nrg&feature=related YouTube - Smashing Pumpkins - Call The Shots ] ] , David Jordan [ [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-XTVUnr2qaM Youtube - David Jordan - Call The Shots ] ] and Coldplay [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7evula1JUg YouTube - Coldplay @ Brixton - End of Square One/Girls Aloud Cover ] ] have performed versions of "Call the Shots" at live performances.

References

succession box
before = "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis
title = Croatian Singles Chart number-one single
years = 23 December 2007
after = "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis


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