"Some Kind of Miracle" | ||||
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Song by Girls Aloud from the album Sound of the Underground | ||||
Released | 26 May 2003 | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 3:09 | |||
Label | Polydor Records | |||
Writer(s) | Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Lisa Cowling, Tim Powell, Shawn Lee, Edele Lynch | |||
Producer(s) | Xenomania, Jeremy Wheatley | |||
Sound of the Underground track listing | ||||
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"Some Kind of Miracle" is a song by British all-female pop group Girls Aloud, taken from their debut studio album Sound of the Underground (2003). The song was written by Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins and his production team Xenomania, and produced by Higgins and Xenomania. One of six songs produced by Xenomania for Sound of the Underground, "Some Kind of Miracle" was also remixed by Illicit.
Receiving comparisons to The Bangles and Geri Halliwell, "Some Kind of Miracle" was praised by contemporary music critics as a stand-out track from Sound of the Underground. "Some Kind of Miracle" was intended to be the album's fourth single, but these plans were canceled upon the recording of "Jump" for the Love Actually soundtrack.
Following the success of their debut single "Sound of the Underground", Girls Aloud began work on their debut album. Initially, Brian Higgins and Xenomania had only produced "Sound of the Underground" and second single "No Good Advice". Higgins said, "They'd sent them off to these other Swedish guys and different people in the UK [...] I said, 'There are two completely separate groups on this record. We need to get rid of six tracks and I'll replace them'. We did that and allowed the album to stand up as a body of work." "Some Kind of Miracle" was one of six songs that Higgins and Xenomania ended up producing for Sound of the Underground.
"Some Kind of Miracle" was written by Higgins, Miranda Cooper, Lisa Cowling, Tim Powell, Shawn Lee, and former B*Witched member Edele Lynch. The song, originally titled "Should I Stay or Should I Go", has "layered vocals with its slow tempo despite being more formulaic" than other Xenomania productions. Described as "a breezy summer pop song about trying to bag a guy," the song was said to sound like "a 21st century Bangles", as well as former Spice Girls member Geri Halliwell.