Westlife's Mark Feehily says he regrets the band's 2004 albums of Rat Pack covers. He's told reporters that the boy band was in a state of disarray after the departure of Brian McFadden that year, and that when their label suggested the Sinatra-aping album 'Allow Us To Be Frank' they didn't think it through properly.
Feehily: "Let's forget that , actually. That was a weird time in our career. I'm not making excuses for it, but Brian McFadden had just left. We kind of didn't know what to do".
Commenting on his band's new album 'Where We Are', which is out today, he continued: "Our new album, 'Where We Are', is genuinely a move in a certain direction. I mean it's definitely not the predictable same old thing, covers or whatever".
So that's nice. You know, when it comes to Westlife I like to forget 1999's 'Westlife', 2000's 'Coast To Coast', 2001's 'World Of Our Own', 2003's Turnaround', 2005's 'Face To Face', 2007's 'Back Home', as well as 2004's 'Allow Us To Be Frank' and 2006's 'The Love Album'. Give it a week and I'll probably be ready to add 'Where We Are' to that list. But those weaker albums aside, I'm a big fan.