- Title: UK: SUPERSISTER LOOK SET TO BE THE HOTTEST NEW GIRL BAND
- Date: 27th September 2000
- Summary: LONDON, UK (SEPTEMBER 27, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) MCU (English) LOUISE SAYING "To be honest with you, there is no real difference at the end of the day, we are just like everybody else! We are women, I think you can safely say you're not a girl, eighteen and you're a woman, so this whole girl thing is just - we are just singing about what we like singing about and if
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- Location: LONDON, UK
- Country: United Kingdom
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- Story Text: Steaming up the charts with their hi-energy disco romp are pop's latest hot property - Supersister. The three girls have a knack of brewing up a catchy tune, their latest is 'Coffee,' a homage to their kind of men - 'hot, strong...and sweet - like toffee!' Not only can the girls turn out a top pop song - they just happen to look great in bikinis too! So sure enough Reuters caught up with them in a London coffee shop - and like caffeine they kept us up all night....
Supersister look set to be the hottest new girl band on the block - their first single, "Coffee" is a guaranteed dance floor filler. But these girls aren't butter wouldn't melt teenagers - they are sexy, sassy and steamy - they are also old friends: "Tina and myself have known each other since we were seven and eight, since we were kids, and our parents used to live across the road from each other, and we started up a band about three years ago, and I actually met Louise two and half years ago, we were doing a job together, a promotions job and we had a trip from Sheffield to Norwich, and Louise happened to be in Sheffield, and so the agency put us together in the same car, and we had a four hour journey together, and Louise heard I was in a band, and she did her little audition all the way there, four hours."
With the addition of Louise, Supersister was born.
They may be peddling a lighthearted brand of bubblegum pop, the trio are very much in control of their music. They have a hand in writing their songs with the help of Eleanor's brother, Shaun, who also happens to be Tina's boyfriend. This gives their tunes a personal touch, as Tina explains.
"......Everything that is going to be on the album, which is called Lip Service which is out February/March next year, there's a real broad range of songs on there, all of which reflect our personalities in one way or another, and because Shaun does know us, and we've co-written and Shaun has written as well, it's not that somebody in Switzerland has written a song for a female voice and we'll sing it, it really is more to do with our personalities, we wouldn't sing a song that we didn't understand or feel was right, it's not the Krypton Factor, they're pop songs when all is said and done, but we do believe in what we are singing, we wouldn't sing about something that we thought was a load of rubbish."
Supersister don't see themselves as just another girl band, they are women who make their own music, and their raunchy style certainly gives them grown up edge: "We are women, I think you can safely say you're not a girl, eighteen and you're a woman, so this whole girl thing is just - we are just singing about what we like singing about and if that classes us as being different or not then that's up to everyone out there to decide." says Louise.
The band stand out from many recent pop wannabes as they are not a manufactured band - this meant they had a slightly slower start as they had to work their way up - but feel that it has all been worthwhile, as Eleanor says: "We started the band three years ago and from that point we only got signed a year ago so it has taken a longer time, but as Louise said we do feel very passionately about it, I think it's a good thing to be honest."
And Tina is very glad they are friends as well as colleagues: "I'm really glad that we know each other because I feel really quite sorry for these bands that are put together because it's like living on Big Brother, you're thrown together, you live together 24 hours a day, if you don't actually like the people you're with or get on with the people you're with, you're in for a horrible ride, because if I just went for an audition and they said, you are going to spend the next five years of your life, twenty four hours a day seven days a week with these two girls now get on with it. I'd be like, Oh My God, I'd really like to get on with them and know them and luckily we do, Eleanor and I have stayed friends for 16 years now, and obviously Louise we've known for three years, it all counts, so I actually feel sorry for them when they are thrown together and have to deal with it and always get on with each other."
Supersister's single has already broken into the UK charts in the top 20, and looks set to go higher as radio DJs catch onto the tune. But one thing is for sure, love it or hate it - you just won't be able to stop singing it. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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