I was actually looking for this Swedish band called Moonbabies, but ended up with Moonbaby.
I like their sound enough to try and find out more information on them... which apparently is not really a band, but Miranda Cooper's pseudonym.
From what I could tell, they've never officially released anything under Moonbaby, instead two promotional singles Here We Go (CD/12") and 4-Track Sampler (CD). These two items were released in 2000, so any hope of a full length is probably out of the question.
Anyroad, here's some information about Xenomania: they're a team of song writers and producers, consisting of Brian Higgins, Miranda Cooper (aka Moonbaby), Tim Powell, Nick Coler, Niara Scarlett & Giselle Sommerville (aka Mania), and Matt Gray (remixes only). They're the one that's responsible for such dance acts as Saint Etienne, Girls Aloud, Kyle Minogue, Texas, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Although I love these bands and solo artists, I can start to see how certain songs were produce by the same team!
I don't really have any other insights to offer for "Here We Go", except that it was covered by a woman named Lene (formerly of the band Aqua) for her album Play With Me (2003). According to wikipedia, they said that Lene had nothing to do with the songwriting, but she was credit as songwriter as vanity credit.
The other interesting thing is that "Here We Go" was re-written with the lyrics "here we go, here we go, on a mission, undercover and in control. we're totally spies, get on with the show. here we go, here we go." for the cartoon Totally Spies. I'm not sure what sort of legal problems they ran into, but season one and two features those lyrics, while season three just feature the instrumental version of "Here We Go".*
* I've thought about this, and it reminded me of this article I read about how music licensing plays a huge part in whether television shows get released on DVD. I'll cite some examples: The Wonder Years are in a legal battle with Joe Cocker and many, many 60s music (background scenes) because the original agreement for broadcasting did not include distribution rights for other media such as DVDs. So obviously, someone (probably the many, many record companies) want money... This was the case with Frank Sinatra's "Love and Marriage" song for Married with Children. But they got around this by releasing the DVD with an instrumental soundtrack theme song.
This is just a guess, but I'm assuming that the Totally Spies creators probably was thinking about future DVD releases and opted to pay less for the theme by using only the instrumental. It's a real shame, because television shows don't really have great theme songs anymore.
vu Links: wikipedia.org/Miranda_Cooper | www.discogs.com/Xenomania | www.totallyspies.com
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