RIP. Thanks for posting this, I've heard a particular cover of this song many times but I was unfamiliar with the disco-tastic original. Always nice to learn when a familiar version isn't actually...
RIP. Thanks for posting this, I've heard a particular cover of this song many times but I was unfamiliar with the disco-tastic original. Always nice to learn when a familiar version isn't actually the first one recorded.
I wonder if anyone here can help me locate the cover I'm thinking of? I went searching for it but none of the listings I checked on WhoSampled or my Spotify search results are a match. The version I know is a fairly mellow electronica track, probably from 2003-2013 or so. It's a solo female vocalist, in English with no discernible accent. Sounds like The Bird and The Bee, or maybe Ladytron. I saw that Goldfrapp covered it, which seemed like it would be right, but that's not it (theirs is a lot crunchier / bassier than the one I'm thinking of, and in a lower key). I've heard this song a bunch of times, probably via Pandora years ago, but now that I'm looking for it it's unfindable! I'm kind of having a Mandela effect moment over here today, haha.
That's the closest version I've heard, but it's not it. The instrumentation has a similar dreamy, chime-y quality, but Sophie Ellis-Bextor's retains more of the original's driving beat and disco...
That's the closest version I've heard, but it's not it. The instrumentation has a similar dreamy, chime-y quality, but Sophie Ellis-Bextor's retains more of the original's driving beat and disco strings, that aren't (as?) present in the one I'm thinking of. Her voice is more... commanding, I guess... than the one I know, which I would describe as "soft and sweet," and the vocalist in mine sounds American to my ears.
RIP. Thanks for posting this, I've heard a particular cover of this song many times but I was unfamiliar with the disco-tastic original. Always nice to learn when a familiar version isn't actually the first one recorded.
I wonder if anyone here can help me locate the cover I'm thinking of? I went searching for it but none of the listings I checked on WhoSampled or my Spotify search results are a match. The version I know is a fairly mellow electronica track, probably from 2003-2013 or so. It's a solo female vocalist, in English with no discernible accent. Sounds like The Bird and The Bee, or maybe Ladytron. I saw that Goldfrapp covered it, which seemed like it would be right, but that's not it (theirs is a lot crunchier / bassier than the one I'm thinking of, and in a lower key). I've heard this song a bunch of times, probably via Pandora years ago, but now that I'm looking for it it's unfindable! I'm kind of having a Mandela effect moment over here today, haha.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor?
That's the closest version I've heard, but it's not it. The instrumentation has a similar dreamy, chime-y quality, but Sophie Ellis-Bextor's retains more of the original's driving beat and disco strings, that aren't (as?) present in the one I'm thinking of. Her voice is more... commanding, I guess... than the one I know, which I would describe as "soft and sweet," and the vocalist in mine sounds American to my ears.
And, of course, RIP María Mendiola...