it took girls aloud five months to release "no good advice". nadine coyle said in an interview with the lipster, "we were no.1 for a month straight and then getting songs from all these other producers and we were, 'nah, don't like it'. we waited from december to may before releasing a second single because we knew it had to be our strong point or we might as well kiss our careers goodbye." kimberley walsh further exclaimed, "we knew it was strong enough to come back with." girls aloud reportedly had to re-record "no good advice" because "it features rude words", such as "damn" and "shit". however, the line "here i am / dirty hands, i don't give a damn" was kept intact. an explicit version of the song appears on the special edition bonus disc of "the sound of girls aloud", replacing the lyric "shut your mouth because it might show" with "shut your mouth because your shit might show". furthermore, an early demo of the song appears on a singles boxset released in 2009; this demo including the clean lyric in the first bridge and the explicit lyric in the second bridge.