Creativity Quote by Rachel Stevens

There is something almost radical about this kind of modest pop canon-building: Rachel Stevens isn’t claiming genius, she’s claiming credit. In an industry that loves to treat bubblegum hits as disposable and girl-group members as interchangeable faces, “Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics” is a quiet act of reclassification. She’s taking tracks that were once filed under kids-TV ephemera and insisting they deserve a sturdier shelf: not guilty pleasures, not ironic throwbacks, but classics.

The phrasing does a lot of work. “Songs like” signals she’s not litigating a definitive list; she’s pointing to a vibe, a cultural residue. Those songs weren’t just chart products, they were communal objects: school discos, Saturday-morning optimism, a pre-social media monoculture where a chorus could feel like public property. Calling them “pop classics” isn’t nostalgia for its own sake. It’s an argument that durability can look like joy, not just angst or “serious” artistry.

Then comes the second sentence, and the temperature changes: “I’m really proud that I had a part in them.” Not “I made them,” not “I wrote them,” but “a part” - a shrewd acknowledgment of pop’s assembly-line realities while still refusing the erasure that often follows. The subtext is about authorship without pretending pop isn’t collaborative, and about adult self-respect for work that was once dismissed as lightweight. It’s also a signal to the culture: stop treating happiness like a lesser achievement.