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While I think she's a great performer with excellent stage presence and dancing skills, I don't personally consider her to have been the strongest vocalist in the group. That's not to say she isn't a good singer—far from it—but, in my opinion, Nadine had the strongest voice.

Of course, vocal ability alone doesn't determine who becomes the biggest star. Nadine was also conventionally attractive and undeniably talented, which makes me curious about why Cheryl achieved a much higher level of mainstream success after the group.

I'm not trying to diminish Cheryl's achievements at all. I think she's a beautiful, charismatic, and inspiring woman. I'm simply interested in understanding what set her apart from the other members, who were all talented and appealing in their own ways. What do you think made Cheryl resonate with the public more than the rest of the group?

Nowadays she has kept herself more out the public eye but i think people growing up today wont realise just how big she was from about 2008 to 2014ish. I know it was just UK fame but in Britain it really did feel like she was up there with all the big female singers of the time. I mean she was on Graham Norton with Katy Perry who was worldwide famous but still got the first seat which is usually secured for the BIG guest.

I was in primary school during her peak. I was already a huge Girls Aloud fan from pretty much the moment i could think for myself. But she was so relevant and talked about quite a lot in school. All the girls thought she was cool and all the boys fancied her. I was known as the Cheryl fan so people used to come for me if there was big news like her malaria and when she did the Piers Morgan interview. It felt like the national panic when that episode released where she had collapsed. I was met by people at the school gates 😂.

Plus she had a lot of big solo songs but Fight for this love just felt the THEE song. I mean if i had to some up that time period of the UK i would choose that song.

But yeah nowadays it feels shes still known but not the kind of way she was. I feel there are more mixed opinions on her now. She gets a hard time for her vocals which i think isn’t fair. Shes not Mariah but she can hold a note. She sounded great on the recent tour

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In an article of People magazine , Girls Aloud being snubbed in the list of girlbands that changed the music industry. Spice Girls and Little Mix are only UK Girlgroups that made the list thoughts on the erasure?

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Even in the UK. I don’t hear them on the radio and it annoys me. Spice Girls and Little Mix seem to be the only girl groups that UK mainstream radio embraces when GA and Sugababes made the best songs imo. Their songs transcended cookie cutter Pop.