Last Friday, Betty Boo re-released her albums Boomania and Grrr! It’s Betty Boo on magenta coloured vinyl, CD and cassette.

By Veronika Lapuridi

The iconic ’90s hip-hop artist and inspiration for the Spice Girls is celebrating the 35th anniversary of Boomania with this exciting re-release of her most loved dance hits and remixes.

Ahead of her first ever UK tour, Betty Boo, platinum selling Brit and Ivor Novello award winning singer songwriter and rapper, re-released her hit albums Boomania and Grrr! It’s Betty Boo 35 years later.

The albums boast a collection of her most loved hits, including Doin’ The Do, Hey DJ – I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing), Where Are You Baby? and Let Me Take You There, providing non-stop dance anthems. Even through the mellower tracks like Leave Me Alone, Betty Boo raps and sings through light and bubbly feel-good tracks with catchy melodies and strong rhythms. The sassy and powerful sound she’s famous for evokes imagery of dance-floors, coloured lights and disco balls.

The Boomania re-release includes twelve tracks not on the original album – an assortment of more rhythm focused, versions of her most famous songs such as the three additional remixes of Where Are You Baby, which had been released separately – with a more electronic sound. This version of the album keeps everything that was loved from the original, and adds to it to create a more complete impression of Betty Boo’s dance-fuelled sound.

Similarly, Grrr! It’s Betty Boo features twelve additional tracks, remixes collected from several separate releases.

This re-releases come ahead of her summer tour where she is set to perform all of her hits from Boomania, GRRR! It’s Betty Boo, plus cuts from 2022’s phenomenal comeback Boomerang and 2024’s Top 40 smash Rip Up The Rulebook, at fifteen venues nationwide this Summer, with the Glasgow show already sold out. She comes to Hull on 21 June 2025.

You can listen to and buy both Boomania and GRRR! It’s Betty Boo on Betty Boo’s website.