Skip to main content

Weekly Music Video

This week's video is Be With You by Atomic Kitten. They are a British girl group who formed in 1998. The original members when the group debuted were Natasha Hamilton, Liz McClarnon and Kerry Katona. (In the first place Heidi Range from Sugababes was a member but she was replaced by Natasha). The group was formed in Liverpool, where Natasha and Liz are from. (Kerry is from Warrington, Cheshire).

Atomic Kitten's debut single Right Now was released in 1999, followed by See Ya, I Want Your Love and Follow Me in 2000. Their debut album came out in October 2000. They were successful in the UK and were also well received in Japan.

In January 2001 Atomic Kitten weren't doing so well and were on the verge of being dropped by their record label but they released their 5th single Whole Again and it revived their career, reaching No 1 in the UK Singles Chart. It also got to No 1 in several countries around the world  and is one of their best selling singles to date. 

During this time Kerry left the group to have her first baby Molly with her fiance, Westlife singer Brian McFadden and was replaced by Jenny Frost, formerly of girlband Precious. Whole Again was re-recorded with Jenny's vocals for the re-release of Right Now and the music video was shot again with her in it. The Right Now re-release got to No 1 on the UK Albums Chart.

Some of Atomic Kitten's other successful singles are Eternal Flame (a cover of 80s group The Bangles' song), The Tide is High (Get The Feeling (a cover of 70s/80s band Blondie's hit), both of which got to No 1 and The Last Goodbye and Be With You (both No 2). 

In addition to Right Now they have released two more studio albums, Feels So Good (2002) and Ladies Night (2003), and 5 compilations, including Atomic Kitten (2003), Greatest Hits (2004) and The Essential Collection (2012). Feels So Good was also a best seller.

The group drifted apart in 2004, due to Natasha taking a hiatus to look after her son Josh, and then Jenny and Liz pursing other projects. They reunited occasionally for performances but it wasn't until 2012 that there was a proper reunion with the original line-up of Kerry, Liz and Natasha. 

They got back together for the TV show The Big Reunion, along with other 90s and 2000 pop groups, such as Liberty X, 5ive and the Honeyz. Jenny didn't take part because she was pregnant with her twins Nico and Blake at the time. The Big Reunion was a hit and the bands released a charity single I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, a cover of glam rock band Wizzard's song.

Atomic Kitten took a break during 2013 and 2014 due to Kerry having her 5th child Dylan- Jorge. They were set to tour with other groups late last year but the tour was cancelled. Their Greatest Hits tour was also cancelled in May. Kerry stated last November that they planned to release a new album this year.

Atomic Kitten were one of my favourite groups. I have the original version of Right Now and the other two albums as well. Be With You is one of my favourite songs. I've just read that it's an adaptation of the song Last Train to London by the Electric Light Orchestra. It was released in November 2002 as a double A-side with The Last Goodbye. It's not on the UK Feels So Good album but is on other versions, and you can also find it on Ladies Night. :)




For more on Atomic Kitten check out their website: www.atomickitten.com


Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

South Indian Videos

I've written several Bollywood posts this year but I don't feature South Indian music/films as much. So today I'm sharing some music and dance videos from Tollywood ( the Telugu language film industry) and Kollywood (the Tamil language film industry). :) Oo Antava Mawa- Pushpa- Dance Cover by Sonali First up is a dance cover of the song Oo Antava Mawa..Oo Oo Antava from the 2021 Tollywood film Pushpa: The Rise- Part 1 . I previously featured a dance cover of Oo Antava Mawa in a Dance Videos post in August last year. That one is by Rang De and you can see it here: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/08/dance-videos.html This cover is by Indian choreographer Sonali Bhaduria, from LiveToDance with Sonali and was uploaded in January 2022. It's a shorter video.   For more on Pushpa and to watch the official Oo Antava Mawa video, check out my Tollywood Videos Round-up 2 post from September 2023: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/09/tollywood-videos-round-up-2.html ...
Post a Comment
Read more

K-pop Comebacks- BTS

Sorry the 2nd post is later again this week, I didn't manage to get it finished yesterday. :) Last month I started a mini series called K-pop Comebacks, featuring the comebacks of K-pop groups during 2026. The first one was about BLACKPINK and you can see it here:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2026/03/k-pop-comebacks-blackpink.html Today I'm focusing on BTS (one of the most popular Korean boybands ). They debuted in 2013 and are a 7-member group, made up of leader RM, formerly known as Rap Monster (real name Kim Nam Joon), SUGA (Min Yoon Gi), Jin (full name Kim Seok Jin), j-hope (Jung Ho-seok), Jimin (Park Ji Min), V (Kim Tae Hyung) and Jungkook (Jeon Jung Kook). * Since then, the boys have been very successful, not only in South Korea but internationally. They are probably one of the most well-known K-pop bands worldwide.  In June 2022, the group took a break while the members served their  mandatory military service in Korea and have also been concentrat...
Post a Comment
Read more

Weekly Music Video

Sorry there wasn't a 2nd post last week, I was going through a bit of a stressful time and didn't manage to get one finished. :) This week's video is I CONDEMN by Australian singer and rapper The Kid LAROI . It was the first single from the deluxe version of his second album BEFORE I FORGET. The original album was released in January and the deluxe version came out on 24th April. It contains 9 extra tracks, including  I CONDEMN and latest single PIECES. I wasn't aware that there was a deluxe version until I saw that some new songs had appeared on Spotify! I like BEFORE I FORGET and my favourite songs from the original version are ME + YOU, JULY,  COME DOWN and RATHER BE featuring Australian rapper and singer Lithe . One of my fave songs on the deluxe version is QUIT YOU, and I also like HOLD STILL and I CONDEMN. The newest single PIECES came out on out the same day as the album. I CONDEMN was released on 17th April. As with the songs on the original BEFORE I FORGET, it...
Post a Comment
Read more