By Shanice Abbott
You may think you’ve seen girl bands before, but it’s been a long time since you’ve seen one quite like the Ultra Girls. Going back to the roots of what it means to be girls in a band, Lucy, Lauren, Amy and Laura are taking the essence of Girl Power but moving it into the 21st Century by adding slick dance moves, funky vocals and lashings of attitude.
“We’re young and fun. We want you to dance with us, wear your trackies with us and go crazy. It’s not ‘look how sexy we are’ its girls singing about girls lives, not taking it too seriously or being too polished.”
The girls’ personalities are as distinct as their looks. If there was an award for best stomach on a girl in pop ever, it would go to Lauren Green, 23, who brings an urban vibe to the group – though before that she went to stage school, then joining a tribute act with Tom from the Wanted – he did Take That, she did Girls Aloud.
We spoke to Lauren to find out a bit more about the girl group.
How did you all decide on the name ‘The Ultra Girls’?
At first we were called ‘Project A’, we just came up with that name on the spot. But when we began to start recording in the studio we decided that we should come up with a new name. We wanted something that would stand out, this is where ‘Ultra’ came from. Then we just put it together – ‘The Ultra Girls’.
How did X-Factor change your lives?
From the X-Factor this made us realise that we really wanted to go into the music industry, and X-Factor gave us such a good experience for this and we had such a great time. After the X-Factor we all became more confident as a group and knew this was something we wanted to do, we knew exactly what direction we wanted to go in.
So how did you all meet?
We all used to dance for Leeds Rhinos rugby club, then we started doing auditions to form a group and all decided we wanted to take it a step further.
What inspires you to be in the music industry and who inspires you the most?
I think we’re all really inspired by ‘The Spice Girls’. We all have our own style and our girl group is more about friendship and girl power and that’s something we put into our music, so it just really all comes together and works quite well.
Do you like being compared to ‘The Spice Girls’ as a lot of people do compare you to them?
They do yeah and it definitely boosted our confidence, it also puts us under pressure because when people tell us that were like “WOW”, it’s amazing to be told that and we obviously know that no one will ever match up to them but it’s really nice being compared to them, it’s a massive complement.
How does it feel to have your single ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ on iTunes now?
It’s really weird, like especially how we’ve been waiting for this for quite a long time and now it’s actually happened!
When you go out and about do people recognise you?
I think that it’s more when we are together as a group, we get people saying to each other arr I’m sure we know them from somewhere, there that new girl group! (laughs) But we do have some really dedicated fans that come and meet us at places, at the radio station and they bring us chocolate.
Does it feel weird to have fans and to have people follow you?
I remember when we went to our first radio station and there were paparazzi outside, we were all thinking what’s going on. And then we all go back in the van and we are like well that’s a bit weird.
Have you met any famous artists so far and if so who’s the most famous you’ve met?
Well I think Kylie’s the most famous, she is so lovely. Erm we’ve also met The Wanted they’re lovely obviously, and we have met Cheryl Cole, Danni Minogue, Simon Cowell and Louie Walsh, they’re all quite big names.
Who would you like to meet in the future?
Well definitely Tinie Tempah, and we would love to meet Mcfly. Erm we’ve all got different tastes, like some of us want to meet Rihanna. I would love to meet 50cent.
Who would you like to collaborate with?
I think we would really love to record a song with ‘Kylie’ if we had the chance.
If you weren’t in a band what else could you see your selves doing?
We’ve had this conversation and like even though we had our own little jobs we still couldn’t see ourselves doing anything else to what we’re doing now.
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