Hole In The Head

Album: Three (2003)
Charted: 1 96
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Songfacts®:

  • The Sugababes are Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena, and Siobhan Donaghy. They met at a garage party at the age of 12. They were all 16 when they recorded their first UK Top 10 hit in 2000, "Overload." Since then they have had a number of international hits including several UK chart toppers. Siobhan Donaghy left the band mid-tour in 2001 due to depression and fighting within the group and she was replaced by Heidi Range.
  • Keisha Buchanan says of this in the Night & Day magazine from November 20, 2005: "I've never said this before, but Hole In The Head was about being in a relationship with J-Rock from the band Big Brovaz, and then finding out he was cheating on me. That song was written when I was an angry 18-year-old." >>>
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    Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England, for above 2

Comments: 6

  • Get Over It from AmsterdamHole in the head does not mean cancer or being shot. It's another way of saying you do not need something, particularly she needs him as much as she needs a hole in the head, and that she will leave a hole in his head since now she has gone.
  • Ec from LondonWTF - "Hole in the head" does not mean cancer or tumours. It's not slang for them either.
    If anything it means a hole from a bullet. No one wants a hole in the head, meaning they don't want that guy back. As if they would sing about cancer.

    Also, Songfacts - that is NOT Siobhan. She left and that blonde one is Heidi Range
  • Louise from Newcastle, United Kingdom"I do like some of their later songs, but this song offends me. Cancer is not a joke.
    - Mjn Seifer, Not listed for personal reason, England"

    They're hardly implying that cancer is a joke, just that this guy is...
  • Mjn Seifer from Not Listed For Personal Reason, EnglandIt's a slang term for tumor/camcers.
  • Angela from London, United StatesCancer?!? What are you talking about? Surely 'a hole in the head' is a reference to being shot?
  • Mjn Seifer from Not Listed For Personal Reason, EnglandI do like some of their later songs, but this song offends me. Cancer is not a joke.
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