[4] Writing for The Guardian in August 1990, Lucy O'Brien noted the difference between the "quietly spoken" Clarkson and her "lovable toughie" pop star alter-ego, describing the latter as "a cartoon combination of Betty Boop, Barbarella and Buck Rogers".

[4] Commenting on her time spent supporting Public Enemy on tour in the US, as well as working with Professor Griff in the recording studio on the song "Give It a Rest",[3] Boo revealed that things did not go as expected: "They were producing our single and I thought it would sound like their stuff, but it didn't at all.

"[6] Her big break came when she appeared as a guest vocalist on the 1989 number 7[7] UK hit single, "Hey DJ – I Can't Dance (To That Music You're Playing)" by the Beatmasters,[4] which was included in original form on their album Anywayawanna.

[9] Her career suffered a setback when in July 1991, while touring Australia, Boo was revealed to be lip-synching at a concert rather than performing live.

The 21st Century Dance Club in Frankston, Australia received "hundreds of complaints" after her performance, during which Boo fled the stage after dropping her microphone, revealing she was miming to a backing track.

[7] A further single, "I'm on My Way", featured a musical quote from the Beatles' "Lady Madonna" which, unusually, was not a sample—the song's brass riff was re-created using all the original players[citation needed].

[4] Despite working to create "an album of experimental yet accessible 21st century pop",[4] just one single emerged from their musical partnership, the self-titled "WigWam" released on 3 April 2006 via Instant Karma Records.

[11] In June 2011, Clarkson featured as Betty Boo (and is credited) on the track "Virtually Art" by the Feeling on the double-album edition of their 2011 release, Together We Were Made.

After her solo career effectively ended when her mother contracted terminal cancer in the early 1990s,[18] Clarkson turned to songwriting, at the request of Chris Herbert,[8][18] who was in the process of forming a new, all-girl group.

He asked me to get involved in this other band he was putting together, Girl Thing, because he wanted this signature Betty Boo sound, a bit of hip-hop.

Although the group's A&R man, Simon Cowell, initially rejected her song,[18] it was included in the Japanese edition of Girl Thing's self-titled debut album, released in 2001.

[18] The song went on to win the Ivor Novello Award for the biggest selling single of 2001,[2][4] however despite finding renewed success by writing for other artists, Clarkson criticised the audition-based, manufactured pop process which created them.