This Ain't a Love Song - Radio Edit

Scouting For Girls are a trio from north-west London comprising vocalist and guitarist Roy Stride, bass player Greg Churchouse and drummer Peter Ellard. This is the first single from their second album, Everybody Wants To Be On TV, which Stride explained to the Sunday Mail is "a heartfelt yet positive break-up song."

Stride is Scouting for Girls wordsmith and he told Spinner UK about his songwriting: "I write a lot about falling in love and breaking up. I don't know who said it, but someone once said the best songs are about the first five minutes and the last five minutes of a relationship, which I agree with. Most people have been there and I try to harness that, but I think about a situation from a character's perspective. The emotions will be ones I've experienced, so there's a truth there, but it doesn't have to be what I'm going through at that moment - I'd be so miserable if it was like that. Can you imagine? If you had to go through tremendous pain to be a decent artist, you'd have to live an awful life. Crime writers don't have to be murderers do they? That's the really creative challenge for me, to look through the eyes of a character but for it to still be personal. When people listen to your music, they have to be able to connect with it and feel what you're singing about. And that's why people like us, because we're normal blokes who sing about things everyone can understand."

This was the first UK #1 single for the London trio. They'd previously chalked up three top 10 singles in 2007 and 2008, "She's So Lovely" "Elvis Ain't Dead" and "Heartbeat."