Brian McFadden would love to re-team with Westlife to battle fellow boybands JLS and Take That - because he's tired of the Irish group's "emotive" songs losing out in the British charts.
MCFadden left Westlife in 2004 to pursue a solo career and has always ruled out a reunion with the band - but he's re-thinking his decision after the four-piece's latest solo offering, Safe, entered the U.K. singles chart at number 10 on Sunday (22Nov10).
The star admits he dreams of rejoining the line-up to "challenge" bands JLS and Take That - whose new singles took the first and second places, respectively, in the same chart - and "reclaim" Westlife's former chart-topping "glory".
In a series of posts on his Twitter.com page, MCFadden writes, "If I'm to be honest yes I would love to do an album with (the) boys and show JLS and Take That what we are really made of! If the boys wanna challenge these newcomers I am always up for a fight. They know where I am. Armed and ready to reclaim glory!
"The reason I'm feeling like this is I watch my boys release an incredible emotive song and video and it play third fiddle to average. When will folk (give) them the credit they deserve. They are not (an) X Factor band. They (are) hard working creative machine (sic) who sacrificed a lot to get here. They will always be my brothers. No matter what happens I will support them til the day they hang up the mikes."