The Loving Kind

Album: Out of Control (2008)
Charted: 10
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Songfacts®:

  • This electro-pop song was co-written by The Pet Shop Boys. Girls Aloud member Kimberley Walsh explained to The Sun October 23, 2008 how the girls ended up teaming up with the duo: "They were in the studio recording stuff for their album with Brian (Higgins, Girls Aloud producer) and they wrote that song for us. But it was a bit mad. When we heard it, we were like, 'That sounds like the Pet Shop Boys.'"
  • Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant explained to Digital Spy why he and Chris Lowe didn't record this song themselves: "It was written for us originally. Xenomania already had the backing track, I came up with the chorus melody and Chris wrote the verse melody. There's a bit Girls Aloud don't sing on their version actually - a really high bit on the verse. I loved the song, but Chris thought it was a bit down for us. He thought it wasn't anything we hadn't done before."

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