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}} "Ego" is the second official single from girl group The Saturdays' second studio album, ''Wordshaker'', and their seventh single overall. The song is a strong electropop song. The song was written by Steve Mac and co-written by Ina Wroldsen and Rhys Barker, who has previously worked on the band's singles. The song was produced by Steve Mac. It was released onto radio station on 25 November 2009. The single was released by Fascination and Polydor Records on 3 January 2010 as the second single from ''Wordshaker''. It was accompanied by a B-side entitled "Flashback", written and produced by Steve Mac. The Saturdays collaborated with Ina Wroldsen and Rhys Barker again, The song has prominent electropop, dance-pop and synthpop genre characteristics. Its lyrics refer to a former relationship with someone who has a big ego. The music video accompanying "Ego" was directed by Mike Simpson and Robin Van Calcar and premiered on YouTube on 17 November 2009. The video features The Saturdays in superhero outfits, many meetings where the paparazzi are trying to interview a member of the group. "Ego" was performed by The Saturdays as part of their setlist on the Headlines! Tour. The band also appeared on ''Dancing on Ice'', ''GMTV'' and ''Blue Peter''. ==Background== In an interview with HitQuarters, Steve Mac described how he, Ina Wroldsen and Rhys Barker created the track together, "We were searching for sounds and found the basic hook sound that’s in the verse and carries all the way through. I started playing along to it and then Ina started singing along, and the song was written over that. No drums were ever put down. Once we finished writing the song together, Ina laid a guide vocal over the top of the keyboard sound and then went away and left me and Rhys to do the rest of it. So it really was built from that sound. It’s an Eurythmics kind of sound." Mac also acknowledged the influence of producer RedOne's work with Lady Gaga, "There's no question that without Gaga we wouldn't be where we are at the moment, with what Red has done and how he has changed radio in America, and what's acceptable, and where dance is."〔 "Ego" follows a chord progression of: Bm-G-D-Bm-G.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Saturdays - ( Ego chords ) )〕 On 12 October 2009, "Ego" was revealed on BBC Radio 1 as The Saturdays' seventh official single and the second and final official single to be released from their second studio album ''Wordshaker'' which was released on the same date. The band recorded a newly song for the singles B-side which was later titled "Flashback", which was recorded on 19 October and on the same day, the single's release date of 14 December, was announced. On 17 November, however, the physical release date of "Ego" was pushed back and confirmed for release on 4 January 2010. The band decided that "Ego" would be the final single from their second studio album. Rochelle Wiseman backed the album by saying "We are not releasing any more singles from the album, as we want to release a new album, not because there is no more good songs on the album." as there was people question the album's songs.〔(Rochelle backs the album saying there are plenty good songs on Wordshaker )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ego (The Saturdays song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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