Atomic Kitten - Southgate You're The One (Football's Coming Home Again)

[ButterTart]

THE SPEAKING BIT

 

[VoR]

Natasha looks great. I think the last time she entered public consciousness in any meaningful way was that time she rocked up to the MOBOs in blackface.

 

[GNL]

 

[Iguana]

Still got the VOX

 

[ButterTart]

I mean, she's been singing this song for two decades, how has she still not learnt the melody?

 

[Pipo]

Jenny's mic is not turned on

 

[Penelope]

Now this TOTALLY belongs in the Pop Toilet

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

Natasha sounds GREAT (low note aside).

Liz's harmonies were definitely audible, and Jenny was serving some nice swaying!

 

[GNL]

Now this TOTALLY belongs in the Pop Toilet

Doing our country down smh

 

[straightorbroken]

Natasha looks like a roadkill Lady Kier (and sounds it too).

 

[big ron]

I feel like grown men singing this in the street topless at midnight can heal all the division in the country.

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

This is so all-round REDUCTIVE

Good for them for getting some quick coin I GUESS, but IMAGINE a band like All Saints destroying one of their legacy tracks like Pure Shores by turning it into a QUICK BUCK TERRACE SENSATION

I guess Atomic Kitten were hardly HIGH ART in the first place, so I doubt leaving a legacy means much to them

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

And obviously this of course :

 

[FetchFugly]

An interview and a quick chorus from the girls (well not Jenny, who was absent and presumably resting her voice) on Channel 4 news tonight.

Our Tash looked especially fabulous.

 

[Rita]

An interview and a quick chorus from the girls (well not Jenny, who was absent and presumably resting her voice) on Channel 4 news tonight.

Our Tash looked especially fabulous.

She had to fly back to Ibiza, darling.

 

[Pipo]

does Jenny live in Ibiza nowadays?

 

[Rita]

does Jenny live in Ibiza nowadays?

Yes, she owns The Beach Star on San Antonio Bay.

 

[Alex]

Yes, she owns The Beach Star on San Antonio Bay.

Haha come a long way from the pub down the road from me her parents used to own. It’s a Turkish restaurant now, I should tell them to get a blue plaque

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

This entire DEBACLE made me revisit their chart history, they really didn't have as many memorable hits, or indeed singles, as I seem to remember Especially as You Are, Cradle and Anyone Who Had A Heart BARELY COUNT!

https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/8582/atomic-kitten/

Weren't Love Doesn't Have To Hurt and If You Come To Me essentially the SAME SONG?
There's very little I'd ever put on voluntarily. Be With You or The Last Goodbye if FORCED!

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

The Last Goodbye is slightly iConic!

 

[VoR]

Their biggest problem I think was that they had incredibly cheap production. All their ballads basically have the exact same backing track - which is a shame because The Last Goodbye could have been a gorgeous song with a bit more money behind it.

 

[jivafox]

The Last Goodbye is one of the best songs ever put to record.

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

It's OK! was lovely too but has lost a bit of lustre since its summery heyday back in Primary 5.

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

Their biggest problem I think was that they had incredibly cheap production. All their ballads basically have the exact same backing track - which is a shame because The Last Goodbye could have been a gorgeous song with a bit more money behind it.

First time listening to that in most likely over a DECADE, and totally agree. There's a really nice pop ballad in there but the production is HORRIBLE and so so dated
The tempo also sounds like it's been recorded several times faster than the song needs to be.

An orchestral Sugababes ballad reading of it would have likely been STUNNING!

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

How was this chosen as a LEAD SINGLE?



Dame Jenny Frost FRONT AND CENTRE in the video too

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

I'm listening to It's OK(!) now actually and it hasn't lost its lustre at all.

So good.

 

[VoR]

It is genuinely near-identical to their terrible cover of Eternal Flame. It's like they just wrote a (much nicer) song over the top of it.

And at that point they were arguably the biggest girl group in the UK and selling loads of records in Europe! There was NO NEED for them to sound that cheap!

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

Fiddle up.

 

[ButterTart]

The Last Goodbye is one of the best songs ever put to record.

Am I right in thinking it's about suicide? Surprisingly dark for a band whose discography also includes a cover of the theme from The Big Country.

 

[jivafox]

Am I right in thinking it's about suicide? Surprisingly dark for a band whose discography also includes a cover of the theme from The Big Country.

Yes! It’s about chucking yourself off the bridge on a motorway. Emotive and beautiful.

 

[jivafox]

I'm listening to It's OK(!) now actually and it hasn't lost its lustre at all.

So good.

The “It’s alright and it’s okay THAT YOU’RE NOT HERE WITH MEEEE” outro is gorgeous

 

[Rowan Tree 🌳]

Their songs were generally a bit cheap and ropey (though I had the revamped version of Right Now the album on cassette and loved it), but Tash really is quite underrated as a vocalist, especially given that they were big in the era of S Club and Hear Say and the rest of the Now 48 CD 1 cast.

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

Be With You had a near note-for-note cover by an obscure Japanese girlband




A Japanese number 34 smash

There was also a Spanish version of The Last Goodbye allegedly, called 'Algun dia de adios' but I can't find trace of it online. I wonder if noted IBIZA RESIDENT Jenny Frost took lead vocal on that version

 

[Indie]

I watched this live, because football. It's slightly surreal because it's atomic kitten with the Horne section as session musicians.

Did it exist before the programme or is it where it started?

 

[Pipo]

I really liked Someone Like Me when it was released mostly because it stood out. I know pop bands In the early noughties were all about being ropey but, talk about sticking to a motif and running with it for too long. Nearly every single ballad they released sounded like a cover of their cover of Eternal Flame. They could easily release a 20 minute medley of all of them.

 

[Rita]

It’s OK should be renamed It’s PHENOMENAL. What a song.

 

[Rita]

Whole Again is also a CLASSIC.

 

[Tisch]

Well, looks like I've put on their Greatest Hits. You've caused this Moopy!

 

[Soldi]

Oh I fancy an Atomic Kitten morning actually

The Last Goodbye is one of the best songs EVER, don’t believe anything that bitch wurst tells you

 

[Samanta TinAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAAaaaA]

Oh I fancy an Atomic Kitten morning actually

The Last Goodbye is one of the best songs EVER, don’t believe anything that bitch wurst tells you

FAKE NEWS: The Last Goodbye is absolutely Atomic Kitten's BEST SONG! (it's just got quite dated production)