![]() Of course I did, because that was 30 years ago! I talked to Bananarama about it – it drives us all mad. A photographer spotted me outside the 7/11 in Piccadilly and took a picture of me from below, up my nose, and that’s the one online the next day, with the writer saying: oh, she looks so different to how she used to. A few years ago, I went to the premiere of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, as I helped the writer, Dan Gillespie Sells, on a rap section when it was in development. ![]() Is it different being a woman in pop now? As an older woman, I find the first thing people say is “what does she look like now?”. Watch the video for Get Me to the Weekend by Betty Boo. A major label would have reined me in, told me what to do. But I didn’t feel like I’d missed out, because when I launched my solo career, I’d taken control of everything – written my music, produced it, had the freedom to look the way I wanted to look. I went into survival mode looking after my granny and family. I didn’t want to be that other person any more. To be a pop star, you have to be full-whack all the time and I just melted. What made you give up your pop career at the end of the 90s? My mother got very ill, then she died, then my aunt died 10 months after my mum. Now I think I’ve made the record I should have made when I was 25. It was great to enjoy it again because I’ve had times when I didn’t even listen to music through the years. My husband would do the shopping and I’d park facing a wall, playing tracks, so no one could see me singing along. So you started writing again? Yes, in the supermarket car park in the first lockdown.
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