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"Sugababes have cracked the top 40 a staggering 22 times since delighting us with &amp;#039;Overload&amp;#039; in 2000. Along the way they&amp;#039;ve survived two messy lineup changes, built a reputation as a group not to be messed with and endured constant comparisons with Girls Aloud. As they prepare to release new single &amp;#039;No Can Do&amp;#039;, we called Keisha Buchanan - the group&amp;#039;s sole original member - to find out what the future holds for Sugababes. Your new single &amp;#039;No Can Do&amp;#039; is out just after Christmas - are you excited? &amp;quot;Yeah, I&amp;#039;m really excited about it. I&amp;#039;m looking forward to people hearing another side to the album. This single has got a kind of Jackson 5 feel to it which I love. The whole album has got a really old-school, laid-back Motown sound, so hopefully &amp;#039;No Can Do&amp;#039; will get more people interested in the album.&amp;quot; Did you enjoy writhing around with the half-naked men in the video? &amp;quot;The video was really cool to make but there were a few &amp;#039;accidents&amp;#039; caused by Amelle. I say &amp;#039;accidents&amp;#039; because I don&amp;#039;t know how many times you can grope someone and call it an accident. Amelle was standing on private parts, touching butts and rubbing abs and saying, &amp;#039;Oops, sorry I thought that was a leg!&amp;#039; It was hilarious!&amp;quot; Your boyfriend&amp;#039;s in the &amp;#039;Girls&amp;#039; video. Why didn&amp;#039;t he appear this time around? &amp;quot;I had to drag him onto the video for &amp;#039;Girls&amp;#039;! He was like, &amp;#039;There is no way I am dancing in a pop video like that&amp;#039;, but I threatened to put my leg over another guy, so he agreed to come. He was kind of forced into it! He&amp;#039;s a bit of a lad and I don&amp;#039;t think he would have felt comfortable appearing on TV in his undies.&amp;quot; Heidi said recently that she&amp;#039;s upset with how the new album&amp;#039;s been promoted. Are you disappointed with how it&amp;#039;s sold? &amp;quot;No, she didn&amp;#039;t actually say that. Basically I think this is the best album we&amp;#039;ve done with this lineup. I think I speak on behalf of all of us when I say that we wouldn&amp;#039;t change a thing. A top ten album is really good and that&amp;#039;s what we got. People put too much emphasis on having a number one - we&amp;#039;ve done that every year for the past eight years. For us, if we&amp;#039;d got into the top ten with a really crap album it would have been more painful.&amp;quot; What do you think the third single will be? &amp;quot;I would love to see &amp;#039;Every Heart Broken&amp;#039; as the third single. I think concept-wise it&amp;#039;s something that we&amp;#039;ve never really spoken about before and again it shows a completely different side to the album.&amp;quot; Are you taking a break before starting the next album? &amp;quot;We want to start in February and take about a year to write it. But it depends - if everything goes well and we get a massive single, then obviously we&amp;#039;ll come back straight away.&amp;quot; What can we expect the next album to sound like? &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re going to be working with producers who&amp;#039;ve worked with Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9 and Rihanna so we&amp;#039;re really looking forward to next year. We&amp;#039;d also love to work with Cee-Lo from Gnarls Barkley - we met him when we were working with [US record producer] Dallas Austin and we&amp;#039;d love to do something with him.&amp;quot; How was it performing with James Morrison on &amp;#039;Broken Strings&amp;#039;? &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s such a nice guy and he made me feel so comfortable. It was really weird as I&amp;#039;ve never sung onstage by myself. It gave me a lot of confidence and made me think, &amp;#039;Can I actually be by myself?&amp;#039; I think even when you&amp;#039;re in a group you need to know that you can hold your own. I know the other girls can, but I was never really sure whether I could, so it gave me a lot of confidence.&amp;quot; Can you imagine having a solo career? &amp;quot;I can see us all doing other stuff. I think the girls would love to do other things as well. That&amp;#039;s what&amp;#039;s great about being in this band \u00E2\u20AC\u201C you&amp;#039;re not stifled. A lot of the time in girl-bands there&amp;#039;s one member who&amp;#039;s the leader and that can cause a lot of tension. It did with us in the earlier lineups, but now it&amp;#039;s kind of equaled out.&amp;quot; So you&amp;#039;re all best of friends now? &amp;quot;Yes, definitely. I think it&amp;#039;s really hard when there&amp;#039;s one member who doesn&amp;#039;t want to be there. That&amp;#039;s what we went through before with the previous two lineups. It was difficult because when you came into work in a good mood and that person was in a bad mood, it put your day in a rut. With this lineup we all want the same thing and from an outside perspective people can really see that.&amp;quot; Were you ever tempted to pack it all in? &amp;quot;Not at all! I left school in Year 8 to join this band and it&amp;#039;s more than a group to me. When you sacrifice your schooling for a group, you don&amp;#039;t want to give it all up that easily. I&amp;#039;ve never regretted it since then. Sugababes has been my life.&amp;quot; Sugababes release &amp;#039;No Can Do&amp;#039; on December 29. Their album, Catfights and Spotlights, is out now. &amp;gt; Click here for more from Keisha Buchanan in The Sound "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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