Bananarama celebrate a lifetime of friendship with the release of their latest single Forever Young.
The track is lifted from the duo’s 12th studio album ‘Masquerade’, which became Bananarama’s highest-charting studio album in 38 years last month.
Reflecting on the meaning of the single in an interview with Retro Pop’s August 2022 issue, Sara Dallin said: “Forever Young is quite sweet because I wrote it with Alice, but I kind of wrote it with Keren and mine’s relationship in mind
“We’ve been friends since we were kids and been through so much that, when I listen to it, it almost makes me cry.
“And I hope when we do it on stage I don’t cry, because there’s just those joyous memories and nostalgia, of how we grew up together, went to clubs and had all these adventures.”
In a review of the album, Retro Pop said: “Four decades into their career, Bananarama have delivered one of their strongest albums yet and, if ‘Masquerade’ is anything to go by, they have plenty more music left in them.”
‘Masquerade’ is available now.
Speaking in an exclusive Retro Pop cover feature, Bananarama open up about how their approach to releasing music has changed over the past decade as they celebrate their 40th anniversary as independent artists.
“It has been such a turnaround for us – which we only really discovered in 2019 after not doing an album for 10 years,” says Keren Woodward. “You just sort of think, ‘Oh my God, you can do it yourself and have complete control,’ which is obviously something that we’ve always hankered after.”
She explains: “Most of our albums and most of our career has been mostly under our control, but there’s always stuff you have to give away to someone else because they’re the people with the money and pulling the strings.
“But, you know, for us now, it just seems to sit so well with us. We choose exactly what we do and when we do it.”
