YMMV / Atomic Kitten

• Awesome Moments: Natasha performing the dance to "The Tide Is High" while eight months pregnant. They even choreographed the dance around it.
• Awesome Music: "The Last Goodbye", "Whole Again", "It's OK", "Nothing In The World".
• Best Known for the Fanservice:
  • The "If You Come To Me" video is remembered for featuring sequences where all the girls are nude - with animations of clouds and butterflies on their bodies. It's one of their only blatant Fanservice videos.
  • To a lesser extent "It's OK" is memorable for the opening scene of all three Kittens emerging from the sea in their bikinis.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Jenny appears to be the favourite of the Kittens. After the group split, she was given the most offers and has remained in the public eye the most - albeit as a presenter rather than singer. Some people admit to watching Snog, Marry, Avoid? just because she presented it.
• Estrogen Brigade: These days, Natasha is held up as a "girl crush" for many early 2000s females.
• Fans Prefer the New Her: Jenny's extensions for "Someone Like Me" only came about because Natasha copied her original hairstyle, but they look quite good and suit her better than the bob.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The girls were extremely popular in Japan, even having a single released exclusively over there ("Cradle"). The girls also got four number 1s in New Zealand despite their tracks never being promoted over there. In fact, if their single didn't do well in the UK there was bound to be another country where they got to number 1. Their final singles did poorly due to low promotion but still got to number 1 in Taiwan.
• Growing the Beard:
  • The Right Now album is thought to be the odd one out, not just because it has Kerry's vocals on some of the tracks. Most of the songs are very 90s, more akin to the Spice Girls. "Whole Again" was something of a Black Sheep Hit and the group didn't really find their sound until Feels So Good. Right Now usually had the least amount of songs performed from it at concerts - usually just "Whole Again" and the cover of "Eternal Flame" (which is different to the album version anyway).
  • The Ladies Night album was regarded as even better, given that there were less covers on it. Just the titular "Ladies Night" (which was requested by Kool & the Gang themselves) and the girls were more directly involved with the writing of their songs this time around. It didn't sell quite as well as the previous two, although that may have been down to Natasha's commitments to promotional work slipping as she became a mother.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The Feels So Good album was around the time Liz suffered from depression.
  • The in-universe reason Natasha isn't in Mike Bassett: England Manager is because one of the players gave her food poisoning. During the third album, Natasha would become infamous for no-showing publicity events and gigs. She'd even no-show a whole concert in Dublin, and the official line was that she was ill. On the same show, Jenny would have to perform with food poisoning, frequently rushing off the stage to vomit into a bucket.
• Les Yay: Not that much but it was definitely there.
  • "It's OK" has a very sexy shot where all three walk out of the ocean in bikinis, and sing from a very enclosed rock pool. Word of God is that in the backstory, all three split up with their boyfriends and took a holiday.
  • "Love Doesn't Have To Hurt" has a moment where the video keeps cutting back and forth between shots of Natasha and Jenny sighing "love" - making it look like a Distant Duet.
  • "Eternal Flame" has a sequence where the girls are all quite close and hugging each other as they sing. Especially as Liz sings "give me your hand".
• Memetic Mutation: Many jokes have been made about "It's OK"'s lines "it's alright and-uh it's okay and-uh" into wondering who Anna is and why she needs so much reassurance.
• Moe: Liz was The Cutie of the group and always seemed to be promoted as such. The fact that she suffered from depression increases her status as The Woobie.
• More Popular Replacement:
  • Jenny is more popular and remembered than her predecessor Kerry. Some people forget Kerry was even in the group.
  • The 2005 version of "Cradle" is preferred to the original because it shares the vocals with the rest of the girls rather than just Natasha.
• Narm Charm: "Cradle" is very sappy but still so very sweet and heartwarming.
• The Scrappy: Kerry quickly became this due to her scandalous personal life. She redeemed herself the second time around; eventually distancing herself from the media circus and performing with Natasha and Liz again at reunions.
• Sequel Displacement:
  • As "Whole Again" was the first single with Jenny, a few think that this was actually the group's first single altogether. It was actually their fifth, although it was a Breakthrough Hit for them.
  • In an inversion, a lot of people assume "The Last Goodbye" was their last one - when a whole other album was released after it. It wasn't even the last single off Feels So Good; "Love Doesn't Have To Hurt" was.
• She Really Can Act: The video for "The Last Goodbye". The first time the girls had to properly act a story in a video as opposed to just dancing and posing. And they nailed it.
• Signature Song: "Whole Again", "The Tide Is High" and "Eternal Flame".
• Silly Love Songs: "Love Doesn't Have To Hurt", "Cradle", "You Are" and countless album tracks.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: "It's OK", "Eternal Flame", "Love Doesn't Have To Hurt". Album tracks "Feels So Good", "Nothing In The World", "Always Be My Baby".
• Tear Jerker: The "Cradle 2005" video is mostly light-hearted and the clips from the girls' trip to Africa just show Liz and Jenny having fun with the kids. But after the second chorus, there's a shot of Jenny standing next to a sign that reads "Guidance and Counselling: HIV/AIDS Club".
• Testosterone Brigade: Due to their music teetering on the edge of the Girl-Show Ghetto and the attractiveness of the three, the Kittens had some male fans too. Many guys have since come out and said they were fans of the music but were afraid to admit it back then. Jenny seems to get named as a 'girl crush'.
• Unnecessary Makeover: Jenny and Natasha's separate attempts at short hair. Natasha's actually resembled a bad wig more than anything else.
• Vindicated by History: At the time they were around the group had a hatedom from people who thought their music was too sappy or cheesy, and from the amount of covers they released. This hate has died off over the years and they're remembered much more fondly now.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: The costumes worn in the video for "I Want Your Love". The video was frequently featured on the music channels' 'Worst Dressed' type of lists.