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Cobra Starship To Release Good Girls Go Bad Ft. Leighton Meester

• 17th Sep 2009

Cobra Starship are set to release their brand new single ‘Good Girls Go Bad’ on October 19 via Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen Records. The track features a guest appearance from Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl fame and is the first single to be taken from their forthcoming album Hot Mess, which debuted at no.4 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart last month and will be released in the UK early next year.

‘Good Girls Go Bad’ (produced by Kevin Rudolf – Lil’ Wayne, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West) has already sold in excess of 800,000 copies Stateside, has gone top 5 at Top 40 radio, and has recently been certified gold by the RIAA. A huge online sensation, the track has racked up a massive 48 million streams on MySpace. The video, filmed on New York’s Lower East Side, and featuring a co-starring performance from the uber-glamorous Meester, has been nominated for Best Pop Video at the forthcoming MTV VMA awards alongside Beyonce Britney Spears and Lady Gaga. Here in the UK the track has already been added to the Capital Radio network and has received its first plays on Radio One.

Cobra Starship are the brainchild of ex-Midtown frontman Gabe Saporta. After the inclusion of their killer track ‘Bring It (Snakes On A Plane)’ on the hit movie’s soundtrack things soon took off and it was time for Gabe to get a full band together. He enlisted old friends Alex Suarez and Ryland Blackington from This Is Ivy League for bass and guitar duties respectively, and drummer Nate Navarro, Victoria Asher took on the role of keytar and the line-up was complete. With the aim of, “teaching hipsters to not take themselves so seriously and telling emo kids to stop being pussies”, the band released their first album – While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets, and extensive tours with the likes of Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, and 30 Seconds to Mars soon followed. 2007 saw the release of the acclaimed “¡Viva La Cobra!” – which featured the singles “The City Is At War” and “Guilty Pleasure”.

Forthcoming album Hot Mess is receiving a flurry of ecstatic press reviews stateside with People declaring it “a sexy, synthed-up come on that proves irresistible,” whilst Billboard praised Hot Mess as “full of rhythmic dance songs and power-pop anthems,” and Rolling Stone hailed the album as “packed with electro-sleaze tunes that go over the top in both their bright sound – sassy hook-singing girls are prevalent – and wink-wink mien.”