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- Xenomania est une maison de production indépendante, formée par le producteur de musique Brian Higgins à la fin des années 1990. L'équipe est composée de Brian Higgins, Miranda Cooper, Tim Powell et Nick Coler. Xenomania a composé et produit de nombreux succès, entre autres pour les groupes pop féminins Girls Aloud et Sugababes. (fr)
- Xenomania è una delle squadre di produttori musicali britanniche più importanti, ideata dall'autore e produttore Brian Higgins. Il nome Xenomania significa, a detta dello stesso Higgins, "the exact opposite of Xenophobia...a love of everything, of all cultures" ("l'esatto opposto di xenofobia...un amore per tutto e per tutte le culture"). La squadra di autori si compone di , , (conosciuta anche come ), , , e . (it)
- Xenomania is an English songwriting and production team founded by Brian Higgins and based in Kent, England. Formed by Higgins with his Creative Director Miranda Cooper and Business Director Sarah Stennett of First Access Entertainment, Xenomania has written and produced for renowned artists such as Cher, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Pet Shop Boys, The Saturdays and Sugababes. In particular, all but one of Girls Aloud's studio albums have been entirely written and produced by Xenomania. Sugababes' "Round Round" and Girls Aloud's "Sound of the Underground" have been credited with reshaping British pop music for the 2000s. Gabriella Cilmi's "Sweet About Me" and Girls Aloud's "The Promise" were named Best Single at the ARIA Music Awards of 2008 and the 2009 BRIT Awards, respectively. The team has been referred to as "a Phil Spector" and "a Motown of the 21st-century". Higgins himself has said that Xenomania aspires to be a modern-day version of RAK Records. Of Higgins and Xenomania, Girls Aloud's former manager Louis Walsh says, "He just makes great songs for radio. They just jump out at you and stay in your brain." There are wide influences present in their productions, including electronic, glam rock, Motown soul, punk, and more traditional pop music. The name "Xenomania" means, according to Higgins, "the exact opposite of Xenophobia [...] a love of everything, of all cultures." Current members of the Xenomania writing and production team are Higgins and Cooper. Long term members Tim Powell and Nick Coler left in 2010. Xenomania also includes a house band who work on potential songs; members include Florrie Arnold (drums) Kieran Jones (guitar, bass) and (guitar, keyboards). French remixer Fred Falke also frequently works with Xenomania. Xenomania started a "record label" of the same name in 2008, developing artists and working on material before looking for major label deals. Artists include Alex Gardner, Jessie Malakouti, Brooke X, Mini Viva, and Vagabond. (en)
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- We first met them [the Sugababes] in October 2001 and we'd spent the previous twelve months working on our own musical direction. We were getting quite desperate as we were struggling to connect with the predominantly R&B artists we'd get sent. Our ideas seemed a bit out of place, and for that reason we connected with the Sugababes as I felt they too were a little out on a limb from the pop mainstream at the time. (en)
- On paper, Girls Aloud shouldn't still be around, so we go into the making of every record with a view that they have to do something exceptional to warrant even existing. It means their records have to try and be as competitive as anyone else's, whether it's the hottest hip-hop producer from LA, or the hottest guitar band from Sheffield. That's been the driving force of our relationship with the group—to defy expectations. (en)
- A lot of the songs have come out of a tiny place, a seed of an idea. Round Round was a beat. Biology, that was just the little piano hook at the beginning, but I remember it probably took two years to work out how to come out of that intro, what it would go into. The Promise, that track was ready to go. Brian was so sure it was going to be a huge hit that we literally planned the day that we would be writing this 'number one'. I think that was obviously when we'd had a lot of success and we were very confident. With Something Kinda Ooh he was thinking of doing a bit like a Too Funky George Michael vibe, which was actually how it started off, but then it ended up something very different. He always has a vision, he knows exactly what he's doing before we do. (en)
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- Xenomania est une maison de production indépendante, formée par le producteur de musique Brian Higgins à la fin des années 1990. L'équipe est composée de Brian Higgins, Miranda Cooper, Tim Powell et Nick Coler. Xenomania a composé et produit de nombreux succès, entre autres pour les groupes pop féminins Girls Aloud et Sugababes. (fr)
- Xenomania è una delle squadre di produttori musicali britanniche più importanti, ideata dall'autore e produttore Brian Higgins. Il nome Xenomania significa, a detta dello stesso Higgins, "the exact opposite of Xenophobia...a love of everything, of all cultures" ("l'esatto opposto di xenofobia...un amore per tutto e per tutte le culture"). La squadra di autori si compone di , , (conosciuta anche come ), , , e . (it)
- Xenomania is an English songwriting and production team founded by Brian Higgins and based in Kent, England. Formed by Higgins with his Creative Director Miranda Cooper and Business Director Sarah Stennett of First Access Entertainment, Xenomania has written and produced for renowned artists such as Cher, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Pet Shop Boys, The Saturdays and Sugababes. In particular, all but one of Girls Aloud's studio albums have been entirely written and produced by Xenomania. Sugababes' "Round Round" and Girls Aloud's "Sound of the Underground" have been credited with reshaping British pop music for the 2000s. Gabriella Cilmi's "Sweet About Me" and Girls Aloud's "The Promise" were named Best Single at the ARIA Music Awards of 2008 and the 2009 BRIT Awards, (en)
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