For all you die-hard fans, don’t be too alarmed! The gals may have changed their look drastically (obviously for the better), but the very soul of the Go-Go’s sound, that stand-up-and-dance-your-life-away beat, is still ever present. Hell, Belinda Carlisle’s "Mad About You" and Jane Wieldin’s "Blue Kiss" could’ve easily come from the same album. And they were out to showcase themselves as "individuals." Hmmm.
Hard to find your sense of individuality when you spend years and years of being joined at the hip with one another. In the words of Jane Wiedlin: "We had this whole unwritten code that we had to be Go-Go’s every minute of the day. We had to think the same things and want the same guys. Party together. Shop together. The togetherness was ridiculous. It was probably the equivalent of ten lifetimes of marriage."
Nevertheless, after going their separate ways for a decade or so, the once-inseparable crew found their way back to each other (surely with less demanding sorority rules).
Their latest album entitled "God Bless the Go-Go’s" was a conscious effort on the band’s part to inject modern musical facets into the core style that they were and are meant to be known for.
Thanks to Boston-based producers Paul Kolderie and Sean Slade, that feat of bringing a very ‘now’ twist to the new tracks was easily accomplished without killing what is intrinsically Go-Go.