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  • Awesome Moments: Some fans have touted Alesha's rap in "B With Me" as one of the finest moments from her career.
  • Awesome Music: "Scandalous", "One Night Stand", "Why?" (both versions), "Can't Get It Back", "Eye Candy" and many more!
  • Broken Base: "All I Want" is either really catchy or really annoying.
  • Covered Up: "Can't Get It Back" was a single for Blaque, which barely made a blip on the radar. The Mis-Teeq version is better known.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite Sabrina being the band's lead singer, Alesha was more popular and has remained more of a fixture in the public eye. When the group appeared on the reality show Reach For The Stars, the girl the episode focused on was an Alesha fan. It helped that a female UK rapper was not something seen in the mainstream, and Alesha was famed for being the nicest member of the group to fans.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With Girls Aloud fans. Even on a special following the latter, they arrived at a festival where Mis-Teeq were performing, and Kimberly said she was a fan of their music.
  • Growing the Beard: The garage remix of "Why?" was where the girls found their groove. Removing Zena worked out well for them too, and they broke through with "One Night Stand".
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The remixed video of "Why?" has a portion where Sabrina, Su-Elise and Alesha are all in similar clothes (black jackets) while Zena is wearing something completely different. Not helping matters was her saying she left the group because she sensed an imbalance between the members.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The "Roll On" video features a moment where Alesha is teasing the boys by keeping the basketball away from them. Then "Scandalous" gets used in the ''Catwoman (2004)' movie, in a scene where Patience does the same to her love interest.
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Some claim they listen to the songs just to hear Alesha rapping.
  • Les Yay: But of course.
    • The start of the "One Night Stand" video has Alesha calling Sabrina 'babe'.
    • The "Roll On" video has a part where Sabrina picks up Su-Elise in the lowrider that looks very much like she's picking up a date.
  • Memetic Loser: Expect discussions on why Su-Elise was even in the group at all, considering "Roll On" is the only single she gets any solo lines on. More music savvy fans like to point out that her low alto harmonies are there to complement Sabrina and Alesha's vocals, and three harmonies are better than two. Su-Elise also choreographed many of the music video routines.
  • Mis-blamed: The group got some criticism for forgetting their garage roots with "One Night Stand" and going to more radio-friendly R&B sounds. Alesha liked to point out that "Why?" had started out as an R&B track before getting a garage remix.
  • Narm Charm: The blatant early 2000s-ness of the "Roll On" video is laughable but still endearing.
  • Sequel Displacement: The remix of "Why?" is more popular and remembered than the original.
  • Signature Song: "Scandalous" is probably the first song people associated Mis-Teeq with.
  • Testosterone Brigade: All three girls had plenty of male fans and admirers. It helped that as an R&B group, their music avoided the Girl-Show Ghetto associated with lots of early 2000s girl groups. Alesha in particular became a lads' mag favourite.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: The video for "Roll On" instantly looks like it's from the early 2000s with the fashions and cars on display in Los Angeles.
  • Values Dissonance: The "Can't Get It Back" video ends with Sabrina's unfaithful husband about to suffer Black Comedy Rape at the hands of a drag queen. Such a thing probably wouldn't fly today.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Mis-Teeq occasionally appeared on family-friendly networks like Nickelodeon UK and never featured anything blatantly trashy in their videos, so many assumed they were like the other family-friendly girl groups such as B*witched, Atomic Kitten, All Saints, Girls Aloud etc. Songs like "One Night Stand", "B With Me", "Can't Get It Back" and "Scandalous" would raise parents' eyebrows. Likewise the album track "Eye Candy" has references to phone sex.

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