Birthed from the profits of Cher’s ‘Believe’ and Geri Halliwell’s blink-and-you-miss-it reality show judging career, Girls Aloud are the biggest UK girl band ever… who no-one outside the country actually knows.  With twenty consecutive top 10 UK singles, four million albums, and some of the most bonkersly brilliant bangers of the 21st century to their name, the band hit their commercial and critical summit with 2007’s ‘Tangled Up’, and we think it’s time that this pop masterpiece got the international respect it deserves. Spanning the spectrum of 80s synth-pop and 90s house to 60s psychedelia, garage and ska, we dig deep into how Girls Aloud shaped our music tastes for years to come, whether or not Nadine is that Gemini we knew she was, and why Sarah Harding's bum note on GMTV should be hung in the Lourve. You can find this episode's companion playlist on Spotify, and follow us on Instagram at @auralfixationpodcast. Your hosts are @drew_down_under and @andrewdoyouthinkyouare.