Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark members and Atomic Kitten founders, Andy McCluskey and Stuart Kershaw, were among the album's principal songwriters.
Right Now was subsequently released in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2000 with a slightly modified track listing, but at first there were no plans to focus on the worldwide market.
After the success of "Whole Again", the video was reshot and the album was re-released globally except for the United States with Frost's vocals added to a number of tracks, including a newly recorded cover song, "Eternal Flame", as well as an additional single for the European, Australian, South African and New Zealand audiences, "You Are", giving the album a more mature pop sound.
[10] Andrew Wagstaff from British music website NME called Right Now "a fizzing pop album; unashamedly fun, funky and shot through with class.
"[11] In a less enthusiastic review of the 2001 re-release of Right Now, his colleague Steven Wells wrote that "the fact is that Atomic Kitten have conquered the ickle girl, camp gay and dirty ole man markets and, for this week (and this week only), they are the cock-a-hoop, lustily crowing ding-dong King Kongs of Britpop.
"[12] John Raftery, writing for RTÉ, found that "the album is a 14-track wade through the most risible, sugary mess you could ever find yourself in [...]The fact that three young women are performing it does not excuse the excruciating boredom and, frankly, disquiet, that listening to the orgasmic pleadings of these three creates [...] This album may be the first sign of the decline of Western civilisation as we know it – or just the worst record of the new millennium.
In New Zealand the album was certified platinum in and it peaked at number twelve, managing to spend twenty-five weeks on the chart.
The album features an exclusive song entitled "Real Life", the final mix version of "Holiday" (included as the B-side to the single "Whole Again" in demo form), demo versions of "Cradle", "I Want Your Love" (titled "All the Right Things"), and "Whole Again" (mainly featuring Katona speaking all of the verses), and an exclusive remix of "Right Now".
Also included are new versions of "I Want Your Love", "Cradle", and "Whole Again" (where the verses are sung by Natasha Hamilton and Liz McClarnon); the latter song reaching No.
"See Ya" and "I Want Your Love" were not re-recorded and were relegated to bonus tracks at the end of the album, while "Do What You Want" was excluded in favour of new songs "Tomorrow & Tonight", "You Are" and the re-issue's lead single (sixth overall), "Eternal Flame", which would become another big hit for the group, becoming their second No.