This June will mark twenty years since Bachelor Girl’s debut single ‘Buses and Trains’ lit up Australian radio, selling over 70,000 copies, hitting #4 on the pop charts, and propelling their album Waiting For The Day into the top 20.
Speaking to news.com.au, frontwoman Tania Doko explained that the twenty year mark, and a resurrected interest in pop music, makes this as good a time as any for the duo to forge a comeback — despite her living in Stockholm, and musical partner James Roche being based in London.
“We’re all going through a bit of a nostalgic period”, Doko explained. “If we tried to come back five years ago, it wouldn’t have fallen on such open ears as now. People are thirsty for that era — there is a legitimate thirst for pop songs that are born from something that’s not so formulaic.
“Pop’s great right now — people like Dua Lipa and Troye Sivan are awesome — but there isn’t the variety, the diversity in pop that there used to be. Back then, pop, rock, urban and R&B was all on the charts. Now it’s mostly electronic.”
Fans of the band’s sugary sound needn’t worry they will be updating to keep with the times, either.
“The core sound is still intact, we don’t want to confuse people and turn to reggae or funk! “We’ve tried to take a lot of stuff out, keep it minimal and raw. The lyrical content’s always been important for us — tell a story, make people smile. We wrote a lot of the songs in Stockholm with my song writing community over there, so there’s a heavy influence from the Swedes.
“We have a lot more obstacles nowadays — squillions of miles between us, children, partners, so it makes it more difficult — but we want to do this. My first love is singing and being on stage, and I’ve missed that, being in Stockholm. It’s time to redress the balance.”
