#the alias

Every good pop act has a megamix. Girls Aloud, the Spice Girls - even the Cheeky Girls have a megamix to fill the dancefloors back in Transylvania. This week, The Saturdays have released theirs and it's actually pretty good.

The good parts.

The Notorious/Up mashup.

The Up/Missing You mashup.

Including If This Is Love quite a bit despite the girls not actually enjoying it that much.

RAM BA DAM BA DAM

Including Not Giving Up despite it flopping on it's arse

The Just Can't Get Enough/All Fired Up mashup

Not ending with What About Us like 99.9% of us expected it to.

Managing to get all but three of their 17 singles in there.

The bad parts.

The Alias have obviously used seperate acapella and instrumental tracks/stems to mix it like everyone would but sometimes they're just a millisecond out, most obviously during Missing You. I can see what they were trying to do, but no.

There's actually slightly too much If This Is Love, which - even though it's a classic - kind of overpowers it.

Shoehorning in songs for no reason - Missing You, Gentleman and Work make the smallest appearances yet make no impact and the two lines we get of Issues sound stupid because they've been pitched. Personally, I would rather have left out songs that didn't fit rather than try to whack them anywhere unrelated.

Too much emphasis on Disco Love.

They include most of Sean Paul's appearance on What About Us - is this his megamix? Um no. All we need from him is the now iconic RAM BA DAM BA DAM which we get. Some of the missing songs could have been included in that space.

Rather than ending with a bang, it fizzles out.

But yeah, in this case I'll more than likely listen to the radio edit more.

Bara Blaque - "3rd World Hippy"

Directed by The ALIAS