But we’re not talking about today’s imposter Sugababes, a gaudy ersatz including Eurovision flop ‘Jade’, currently appearing at shopping centre openings and sweet sixteens for girls called Cheska. No, we crush on the original, iconic pop trio, that founding line-up of Londoners — Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan (left to right) — who provided the soundtrack to our university years with songs such as ‘Overload’ (a Y2K classic with a cheerily low-fi video that featured sale-rack styling, a wind machine and the reason we should never, ever have crimped our hair). We cried sad R&B tears when Siobhan, the mysterious redhead, left the band prematurely, when Mutya and her face piercing ‘moved on’, and when most recently Keisha was, like the others, mercilessly replaced. So on discovering that the ousted threesome, looking sexier than ever, are reforming, unequivocally, as ‘Mutya Keisha Siobhan’, and releasing new material later this year, we had what can only be described as a total popgasm.
