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''God Help the Girl'' is a musical project by Stuart Murdoch, leader of the Scottish indie The songs of the project ''God Help the Girl'' belong to the genre of indie pop and resemble the other output of Belle and Sebastian in tone – two songs (''Funny Little Frog'' and ''Act of the Apostle'') were taken directly from the earlier repertory of this group. However, contrary to the earlier work of Belle and Sebastian (a group dominated by male performers), female vocalists (who are not members of the group) play the main role in the project. The songs themselves also tell about the problems of young girls entering adult life. == Origin of the project == The author of the project ''God Help the Girl'' is Stuart Murdoch, lead singer of the Glasgow-based Scottish indie pop group Belle and Sebastian. In 2004, during a tour promoting their album ''Dear Catastrophe Waitress'', he came up with the idea of writing a series of songs telling about the life of girls and young women which could be sung not by his group but female vocalists. Thinking about this project, he started writing new songs which were shelved for the time being; after some time the idea of arranging them in a logical whole and making a film occurred to him. Looking for performers for his songs, Murdoch placed an advertisement in a local magazine in Glasgow in 2004. The first vocalists who joined the project were Celia García from Edinburgh, Scotland, who responded to the advertisement placed in the magazine, and Alex Klobouk from Germany, who met Stuart Murdoch on the ''Dear Catastrophe Waitress'' tour. Stuart Murdoch also held an open audition on the imeem community portal – the candidates who wanted to work with the group were to send in their demos of two Belle and Sebastian songs: ''Funny Little Frog'' and ''The Psychiatrist Is In''. Brittany Stallings and Dina Bankole from the US were chosen out of about 400 applications; in February 2008 they were invited to a trial recording session in Glasgow. Eventually ''Funny Little Frog'' was sung in the project by Brittany Stallings, with Dina Bankole performing some of the other pieces. In 2008 and 2009, some other vocalists joined the project, including Asya from the Seattle-based group Smoosh, Linnea Jönsson from the Swedish band Those Dancing Days; there was also one man in this group: Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.godhelpthegirl.com/about )〕 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「God Help the Girl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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