Issues (The Saturdays song)

"Issues"
Single by The Saturdays
from the album Chasing Lights
B-side"Beggin'"
Released4 January 2009 (2009-01-04) (digital)
5 January 2009 (2009-01-05) (physical)
Recorded2008
Length3:38
LabelPolydor, Fascination
Songwriter(s)Evan Rogers, Carl Sturken
Producer(s)Sturken, Rogers
The Saturdays singles chronology
"Up"
(2008)
"Issues"
(2009)
"Just Can't Get Enough"
(2009)
Music video
"Issues" on YouTube

"Issues" is a song British-Irish girl group The Saturdays. The song was written and produced by Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers. The single was released as the band's third official single, from their first studio album, Chasing Lights. "Issues" was officially released on 5 January 2009 in the United Kingdom. The single gained mixed reviews from pop music critics.[1]

BBC Music stated that the song was very diva-ish, and the band are divas in the making.[2] Upon the release of the single, "Issues" gained a lot of chart success after charting at number four in the United Kingdom and number fourteen in the Republic of Ireland. The single also charted at number twenty-one on Eurochart Hot 100 Singles.

Prior to its single release, the lyrics to "Issues" were re-recorded after being misinterpreted as promoting violence. As the lyrics "can't decide if I should slap you or kiss you" left many people misunderstanding the word "slap" as "stab", the lyrics were changed to "can't decide if I should leave you or kiss you".[3]

  1. ^ "Discography" Archived 15 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine. TheSaturdays.co.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2009.
  2. ^ Small, Elle J. "BBC - Music - Review of The Saturdays - Chasing Lights".
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