Call the Shots

"Call the Shots"
Single by Girls Aloud
from the album Tangled Up
B-side	"Rehab" (Live Lounge cover) "Blow Your Cover"
Written	2005–2006
Released	26 November 2007
Recorded	2007
Genre	Dance-pop Europop electropop[1]
Length	3:44
Label	Fascination
Songwriter(s)	Miranda Cooper Brian Higgins Tim Powell Lisa Cowling Giselle Somerville
Producer(s)	Brian Higgins Xenomania
Girls Aloud singles chronology
"Sexy! No No No..." (2007) "Call the Shots" (2007) "Can't Speak French" (2008)
Music video
"Call the Shots" on YouTube

"Call the Shots" is a song by British-Irish girl group Girls Aloud from their fourth studio album, Tangled Up (2007). The song was written by Miranda Cooper, with inspiration from an article about the advance of women in business, and Brian Higgins, Tim Powell, Lisa Cowling, and Giselle Somerville also received songwriting credits. Polydor Records originally intended to release it the lead single for The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits (2006); however, "Something Kinda Ooooh" was selected instead. In September 2007, "Call the Shots" leaked online, and on 26 November of the same year, it was released as the second single from Tangled Up through Fascination Records, a week after the album's release.

The song was produced by Xenomania. In 2008, the song won the award for the Popjustice £20 Music Prize, an annual prize awarded by a panel of judges organised by music website Popjustice to the singer(s) of the best British pop single of the past year. "Call the Shots" proved to be commercially successful upon its release, charting at number three on the UK Singles Chart, continuing the band's string of hits by becoming their sixteenth consecutive single to chart within the top ten, and being later certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry. The song also peaked at number nine on the Irish Singles Chart.

The accompanying music video was directed by Sean de Sparengo, and features the girls in purple dresses performing on Malibu Beach at night with flames and white fabric surrounding them. Each member of the band is also shown other locations, following several story lines. "Call the Shots" was promoted through numerous live appearances, including a high-profile performance on The X Factor, and has since been performed on four of Girls Aloud's subsequent concert tours. Several artists and bands including Coldplay and Mark Morriss have covered the song.