And going out on the road again, some of the old classics might be getting a new shine to them in 2022. Anastacia has secured three UK Top 10 singles in her time, as well as six Top 10 albums. I didn't know half the way what a hit song was, if it was a hit song, if people would even enjoy it." " was not on purpose," she says on her legacy.
And since lockdown, music matters more and live music matters even more, because it was taken away."įor British pop fans, Anastacia was a chart staple during the first few years of the brand new millennium, and songs like I'm Outta Love, One Day In Your Life and Left Outside Alone have not only become radio staples, but the kind of songs that are played at parties and at weddings - the kind of pop hits that seem fundamentally British, even if the woman singing them isn't. "Even going into double digits, it's a beautiful thing. "At this point, you're very grateful to have more than one ," Anastacia tells us.
MORE: Anastacia's Official Charts history in full The new tour comes a little late to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut album Not That Kind (a Number 2 hit on the Official Albums Chart) thanks to the global pandemic, but the 22nd anniversary of anything in the music industry is something to be celebrated. "I might need to change a couple of the other songs too," she says on the theme of the tour, "How about Left Inside Alone?" And I started singing I'm Outta Dooooove and I thought when this is over, I could call my tour I'm Outta Lockdown. "It was a joke," she tells, " I was out of Dove soap. The title, of course, riffs off Anastacia's debut single and one of her biggest hits in the UK, and it was apparently thought up by Anastacia herself after she went a little loopy in the first lockdown. Say what you want about early 00s pop diva Anastacia, but the title of her upcoming tour - 2022's I'm Outta Lockdown, announced today for dates across the UK and Europe - is superb.