Now, how often do you get to say that these days and mean it? You’d think that might be quite enough excitement for one album, but pleasingly, instead of padding out the remaining half an hour or so with boring, boring ballads and ill-conceived cover versions, there are at least four or five other songs on ‘Right Now’ that would make great singles. It’s fantastic, and it’s only track four. Some hen night hollering and electro beats get lobbed into the mix, before the whole thing finally topples over with the Kitten girls muttering like a late night chip shop Salt ‘n’ Pepa. In a moment of inspired pop lunacy it throws up the stirring theme from ‘The Big Country’, a sample not heard round our way since The KLF took their ‘Last Train To Trancentral’ and MC Tunes boldly declared his rhyme in ‘The Only Rhyme That Bites’. It’s a belter.Īll the singles are here of course: the title track’s heady rush of utterly daft disco, its follow up ‘See Ya’, a giddy two and a half minute nursery rhyme, and latest release ‘Follow Me’, a surprisingly crisp and criminally overlooked acoustic shuffle.īest of all though is third single ‘I Want Your Love’. Three cheers then for Atomic Kitten who with ‘Right Now’ have, against all odds (and oh, how it pains me to write those three little words) come up with a fizzing pop album unashamedly fun, funky and shot through with class. Whilst the Spice Girls vainly attempt to convince us that there’s always been a sophisticated R&B element to their music, and everyone from Limp Bizkit to Robbie Williams wants us to check out their pain, pop acts that can’t quite make the transition into grown up Radio 2 album artists are getting dropped in their droves. Pop music is a serious business these days, and not just for the Radioheads of this world.
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