Introducing XO, the essential new UK girlband whose debut single, ‘Lovesick’, is out now on Polydor Label Group.
XO are force-of-nature five-piece Emmy, Reanna, Shali, Summer and Zoe. In sound and spirit they evoke that classic lineage of world-class British girlbands, but with a contemporary, cutting-edge and completely inclusive twist. Think the unstoppable British energy of Spice Girls, as raised on the global pop-girls (Tate McRae) plus that new wave of all-choreo and all-conquering groups like Katseye and Blackpink. Yet XO strive for something more imperfect and unapologetic in their firebrand of Pop: a true representation of what it means to be young and figuring life out as it comes at you. They couldn’t have it any other way, really – because “we’re XO, and we’re probably the most chaotic girlband you’ve ever met in your life.”
XO enter the stage with ‘Lovesick’, a mission-statement banger written alongside alt-pop stars Willow Kayne, GRACEY and produced by Gil Lewis. ‘Lovesick’ summons those ephemeral symptoms of unexpectedly catching feelings – and then catching the night-bus – on a big night out (“I know it’s love / if it’s not I’m sick with something”). Fusing head knocking electropop, personality-packed vocals and a tender chorus, like much of their work to come ‘Lovesick’ is as applicable to a romantic situation as it is the more universal; themes of friendship, sisterhood, and XO’s thoroughly Gen Z vision of Girl Power.
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