Listen to this one with your headphones on.Follow the click of the lady heels until they morph into a midtempo metronome pacing a plucky synth-harp and a vocoder tease. A couple of sassy cabasa twists later and your heart is thumping comfortably to a bass drum that's just thick enough. Quarter Pounder thick, slapped between fuzzy hand claps doubling as a hi-hat. And while the harp makes off with the leitmotif the vocoder left behind, the song opens up and you're awash in harmonies straight Off the Wall. Or maybe out of Ne-Yo's back pocket. This infectious jam, like Ne-Yo's entire oeuvre, is reminiscent of early solo-MJ. And it belongs to none other than the reigning American Idol, Jordin Sparks, who studiously sells this tasty ditty by holding that big voice back just enough to keep things buoyant until a gratifying bridge curves us right into her pliant upper-register.
Who woulda thunk Robbie Nevil of C'est la Vie fame (1986) could crank out such a timely pop gem more than two decades later? Nevil collaborated with a smorgasbord of Swedes to write this track. Beyond IKEA, meatballs and social services, Sweden's greatest contribution to contemporary culture has got to be ear candy. Think ABBA. And of course, Max "Baby (One More Time), "I Want it That Way," Since U Been Gone" Martin.
In the frenzy of the holiday season and semester's end, sit back and sip slowly on the simplicity of this single-to-be's songcraft and message: "one step at a time...there's no need to rush." - (KT)
P.S. Special thanks to Princess Charles (aka Scexpatriate) for giving this album to Kangagi, who in turn shared it with me on a digestive drive home from the LBC.
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