Caramella Girls' mini album ''Mums Mums''!

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Mitch Andrews

Caramella Girls is back with a surprise release before Christmas, the mini album "Mums Mums" released December 9th. "Mums Mums" is Swedish for "yummy" or "nom nom" as we might know in English, and is also a reference to the popular Swedish chocolate "Mums-Mums". And of course the girls' haven't disappointed!

While two of the songs are the previously released "Boop Boy" and Blue Monster cover "Take A Ride", the other 5 songs are all original tracks, and I'm absolutely THRILLED with them all! My favourites are "I Won't Let You Go" (awesome production which is reminiscent of Cascada), the cheeky "Tutti Frutti Lover", and "Love Me Baby". I'm hoping one of these will be their next single and they will include a remix or extended version for the fans.

The producers behind this project are now clearly Vasco & Millboy from Caramell, who wrote all of the songs on this mini album (including "Take A Ride" which was originally written for Blue Monster back in 2002). I wonder if some of these songs are Caramell leftovers, or if they wrote them all fresh for Caramella Girls. Either way, I think they have really cemented Caramella Girls' style, and the vocals are MUCH less high pitched which I think works so much better than their earlier tracks.

It's interesting that they didn't include "Shufflelosophy", "Venezia", "Valentine" and "Samurai" on this album, as those 4 tracks would have bumped it up to 11 tracks, making it a full album. They also wouldn't have been out of place on the album as the production and styles are similar. Perhaps it had something to do with licensing as all 7 of the tracks on "Mums Mums" were written by Vasco & Millboy, while those 4 earlier songs were penned by different artists (just a theory).

I'm absolutely loving the direction Caramella Girls has gone in, as prior to this year, while I was a fan (Lollipop and Saw You Standin There were fantastic), I didn't LOVE their over-the-top high-pitched vocals... but I think Vasco & Millboy have finally perfected the Caramella Girls style, slowed down the tempo and "normalised their vocals a bit" and are onto something truly great. I hope "Mums Mums" does really well and they continue to release great songs. I'm hoping they might release a limited CD run, perhaps a full-length feature album with all their greatest hits... wouldn't that be something? :D

"Mums Mums" feels like a love letter to fans of bubblegum dance music. Be sure to support this mini album and all of Caramella Girls' other music by streaming their music on Apple Music and Spotify, and of course purchasing on iTunes and other digital music stores! Caramella Girls is the only bubblegum dance project alive and kicking in 2022, and let's make sure we keep it alive!