Annie, get your gun...
'Girls Music' is taken from Shooting At Unarmed Men's debut full-length album 'Yes! Tinnitus!' - a record hilariously described (in the industry blurb) as a "full frontal attack" after the "mere foreplay" of the band's previous releases (no secondary pun intended...but chuckled at nonetheless).
A lumbering, melodic proposition, it's undeniably raw (as you'd expect from a three-piece) and dark in tone - an undulating bass and distorted drums form the spine of this beast, though it's intermittently plastered by a thin guitar melody. The arrangement occasionally evokes The Cure's beautiful 'Subway Song' and incidentally, vocalist Jon Chapple's (ex Mclusky) style also approximates Robert Smith's - a dangerous balancing act on the edge of the 'can-he-sing-can't-he-sing?' blade. In this case however, I reckon you'd have to conclude that he really can't.
The lyrics are particularly banal - about as dangerous as encountering an enraged toothbrush-brandishing ferret in the catacombs of Exeter on a Tuesday night: "If you're gonna bite down/don't bite so hard" (again - does this seem sexual to you?) and although the track is occasionally punctuated by some clattering rock 'n' roll hullabaloo; it's all far too listless to get really excited about.
'Girls Music' is a track that exhibits little sense of purpose - what is the point behind it all? Obviously it ain't being released as a single because the record label thinks it'll go Top 5 - in the UK at any rate. Maybe Japan though...
When all's said and done, enduring deafening tinnitus would be incalculably preferable to sitting through a whole album of this meaningless jabbering. Now where did I put that Girls Aloud album...?