Louise: 90s so magic

STAR MISSES POP PACK

POP beauty misses the “magical” 1990s because everyone making music was part of a gang.

The star, who rose to fame in girl group Eternal before being voted the Sexiest Woman Alive by GQ, believes today’s stars don’t have the same enjoyment as she had in her heyday.

Louise explained: “The good old days of the Smash Hits roadshow, Top Of The Pops and CD:UK, they were all such fun times.

“I feel like in the 90s a pop star was really a pop star – it wasn’t a flooded market by any stretch.

“Now it’s so open and the good thing is there’s so much choice.

“Sometimes my sons play music that has had billions of streams and

I’m hearing it for the first time and I think,

‘I’ve never heard of this person.’

“You are always discovering new artists and different generational things, but there’s something pretty magical about the 90s. There’s something about how you all knew each other. You were very much all in it together and that was a fun time.” Louise has just released a new greatest hits collection, featuring three decades of classics, reimagined versions and a few new tunes too. “I made the decision that if I was gonna do a greatest hits, I would do it and offer a lot of difference to it so it wasn’t all of the normal songs that are just out there circulating already,” she told Euphoria.

“I did some new versions and re-recorded some of my songs and some Eternal songs. It’s something nice to do as it was 30 years [ago].

“But bringing new life to those tracks, I think, as I still do festivals and shows, it was important to put those versions on the record to reflect how I was performing them on stage as well.”