What do you think of this song? 50 year old former pop star is trying to reignite her career.

Who is this bird? Is she one of those “big in Europe” types?

Her big 90s hit.

Loved her in Eternal. She looks good for 50.

She always sounded like a dollar store Janet Jackson to me.

R4 Louise agrees

I like it. I was singing along by the second chorus.

I like it. Kinda reminds me of Vanity 6 musically

I don’t know who she is but the song is catchy as shit. Very 80’s and funky. Better than Kylie’s Disco album which sounded cheap and pastiche.

People really don’t know who she is?

Her music has always played second fiddle to her whoring in the lads mags.

Classy

Demure

I went along to one of her concerts about 20 years ago and, although I'm not particularly a pop fan, I thought it was really good. She included a few Eternal hits as well as her solo stuff, and had a couple of dancers join her onstage for some slick choreographed moves.

This is fun! Very Janet / Sheila E.

R10 I spent my life exploring, the subtle whoring, that cost too much to be free. Lady, I've been to paradise.. but I've never been to me.

Unless there is a Tina in front of that Louise I. Am. Not. Interested!

She has no charisma and she sounds like Janet Jackson.

That video has been up 7 months and has only had 131K views. It's a huge flop. Just like Janet Jackson's titty and career.

Way too Janet jackson.

Unless there is a Sing Out in front of the Louise, I am not interested

R17 The accompanying album was just released and she’s about to start a tour. She hasn’t done much press until now. Also, she’s not signed to a major label. Cut the old girl a break.

Louise is a victim of being known as a celebrity first, and pop star second. She’s famous in the UK for her celebrity relationships, fashion, talk show appearances, tabloid stories, getting her kit off in racy mags… the music was always secondary. I do think the new song is produced really well and leans more Dua Lipa than Kylie, so good on her for managing to sound current. Other than “Padam” I just can’t get into Kylie’s recent stuff, it’s so cheap and dated sounding.

Sing out!

R9 Seems like the chocolate girls did all the heavy lifting and whitey was just there as window dressing.

And yet she became the breakout star. Typical racist England R23

I'm a big fan of JJ but I like L's version at R5 better.

Me too R25. Louise also did a blatant knockoff of Janet’s Runaway that I prefer to the OG. Ha.

She has a pleasant, nothing-y voice. Like a vanilla wafer.

What about the husband?

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Jamie Redknapp can sit on my face anytime.

Same here R30. Yum!

R29 Shades of Ben Affleck. I would like him in me QUITE deeply.

Louise tried to hustle for a free birthday party at my old PR firm. She wanted to find a party planner, bakery, entertainment etc who’d all be willing to do it in exchange for a few column inches in some sleazy tabloid. We had to tell her - respectfully - that no one gave a damn about her, and to pay for her own party.

The song is fine.

More about the hot husband. Here's some pics of him in speedos.

They've been divorced for a few years but yes, he is hot. Former soccer player.

Yummy thighs.

Nice enough song but not single material.

Better than anything I heard on Renaissance

I like it better than anything Madonna has put out in the last ten years.

Kylie and Madge have dug the channel for all of the others in the post-menopausal water to now swim in.

coming soon: The Monsters of Vaginal Dryness tour! Sponsored by Lululemon and box wine!

I listened to 'Naked' and the new one and her sound hasn't changed much honestly. Forgettable but fun pop.

Also, I have never heard of her before.

How did she get this and not Britney?

I always get her confused with another British singer named Rachel Stevens. I lived in London in the early-mid Aughts and this song was huge at the time.

Apparently it was written for Britney but she turned it down.

Indeed written for Britney, who opted to pick Toxic from the same writer (Cathy Dennis) instead. I still dream of her doing it, or anything off of Rachel's follow up album Come & Get It, the Dusty in Memphis of aughts electropop.

But Rachel suffered the same celebrifate as Louise so this isn't entirely unrelated.

Oh wow I didn't know Cathy Dennis wrote those! Love her 90s releases.

I love that song, r43. The Bimbo Jones club remix is a bop

Jamie Redknapps bulge looks like, a Ken doll in both those pics. Where is the vpl.

If only her former band mates had the same drive for their careers. They were so good and I loved Easthers vocals, one of Britain’s best vocalist. Someday, I Am Blessed and this…

I think marketing is an ignoble profession and you're all glorified streetwalkers who are overpaid. By a lot.

Get it Louise!

I don't know her

R43 Rachel Stevens was my guilty pleasure while I was living in London. She was so, so famous for a brief moment - she felt like the heir apparent to Kylie, and then *poof* she was gone as fast as she came. “Some Girls” remains a fave!

Seriously, if Rachel's Come & Get It had Britneys name on it it would be as beloved as Blackout

I would have liked it. Thirty years ago.

R54 It’s supposed to be a Janet/Prince throwback. The 80s are in. Just listen to The Weeknd or Dua Lipa.

R53 Nothing Good About This Goodbye deserved to be #1 for ten weeks.

Bland look, bland music, bland singing.

Why bother?

Poor Louise. Not even enough interest to keep her thread from getting hijacked by Rachel Stevens

The two sisters in Eternal were a pair of bullies. After Louise left the group the two sister were horrible to Kelly, the other remaining member. Famously they made her sing her lines for their latest album over the telephone so they wouldn’t have to have her in the studio. Kelly is still around and works on TV as a panellist and an actress. The two cunt sisters? Haven’t heard anything about them in many years.

In one of their final songs as a four piece band poor white Louise was almost completely edited out of the video, this was to try and market it for the US market were multi racial singing groups were not so common. Louise left the band after this, she was bar far the most popular member anyway.

All of them are terrible. No charisma, average singers and poorly constructed music with no hook. I can't put it any more bluntly.

She even just flat out covers Together Again at R5. Is she supposed to be a Janet Jackson impersonator? She's not very good.

I love Cathy Dennis though. She had stacks of charisma, an average/good voice and very well crafted, catchy, memorable music.

Louise was popular because she is a pretty girl-next-door type who sang sexy songs and married a handsome footballer (every chav whore's dream), but she wasn't the breakout star of Eternal, R24. She was reasonably successful and had a few sizeable hits, but Eternal were HUGE in the 90s. It's not like her career took off and they were forgotten, so keep your accusations of racism for some other time.

Also, R10 - R11 - R12 and R21 are right. Louise soon realized that she could make more money by whoring it up for the tabloids than by singing, so she started to get her clothes off and court controversy instead of releasing music. Also, her voice is stronger than Janet Jackson's paper thin whisper vocals, but she was never going to impress anyone with it... Still, if Kylie Minogue has managed to make her career last for over 30 years by basically whining her way through almost identical songs, I don't see why others shouldn't have been able to do the same.

R44, I've always wondered what happened to Rachel. She was MASSIVELY successful and then, she disappeared in a puff of smoke. To me, her music was an acquired taste, but it was a million times more original than the rubbish released by other singers, who have been much more successful by doing less (the likes of Rita Ora, Charli XCX, Ella Mai and Anne-Marie come to mind).

Kudos that this former slag pop tart keeps it rather klassy in this video. There's nothing embarrassing about the song or the voice but it's forgettable as well.

^^^ Coming from a council estate chav like yourself that’s really saying something.

I don't think Rachel was ever massively successful, not musically, she did the LA ex song and Some Girls but the rest were minor hits at best. Not to say the second album wasn't an absolute classic, it just didn't sell, it was put together by Girls Alouds team. I always loved I said Never Again (but here we are), everyone says it about anal! ha.

As for Eternal R59 I think that's only partly true, Kelle wanted out, then they had a number one and she wanted in again so she stayed but the Bennett sisters were tired of her always threatening to leave and changing plans, so they eventually fired her by fax for breach of contract. The record company spent a fortune just before this on top producers from USA to produce some stuff for them including a cover of Fleetwood Mac Dreams, but it was all scrapped as Kelle wouldn't commit to a tour of the USA.

R62 Thanks gurl.

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Wow - I didn't know Chris Jansing had a pop career!

She’s trying. I wish Louise well. Whoever she is.

If she wanted more success she'd have needed to change that dreadfully old fashioned and frumpy name.

Louise sounds like a name at the retirement community.

What would you suggest, R69?

R70 Cherry Charms 😍😍 Or Minka Monroe.

Louise

Yes but what about Tamara and the Seen?

[quote]Now she’s back and trying to compete with the likes of Kylie/Dua Lipa. Thoughts?

Who's Kylie? Dua's grandmother?

Louise is about to start a tour, who’s going?

Never heard of her but not bad.

She's the whitest puffy fluffy bland thing, poor thing.