If Shiny & New was around in the 60s...

...we would be writing about this group an awful lot. The genuine mother of girl groups, the Supremes were entirely manufactured from their dazzling wardrobe to their fabulous wigs right through to their magnificent distilled classic pop songs, beginning a grand tradition taken up by the Spice Girls and Destiny's Child up to Girls Aloud today. It's hard to explain just how perfect the songs are in words - they tend to be quite short, but they never feel like they are ending before they are beginning. They have all the vital ingredients and do all the things to you a pop song should, while "You Keep Me Hangin' On" just happens to be our personal favourite.

From the iconic opening guitar bassline, the song reeks of power, assertiveness and strength, qualities which we just can't fathom enough the importance of for a black female pop group to proudly demonstrate in the 1960s. It is a very simple fact that without the Supremes we wouldn't have bands like Destiny's Child, for some obvious and some not so obvious reasons. Listen out for Miss Ross' quote in the limelight "...and there ain't nothin' I can do about it". Fire.