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Top Danish singer Whigfield aims for her 5th UK smash with the ludicrously catchy 'Big Time'... Her previous hits include the legendary 'Saturday Night' and 'Think Of You'.They can't have written that with a straight face, can they?
It's not very surprising that dimishing returns were setting in by the time of the fifth Whigfield single, and even the chart position it did manage was presumably helped by the fact that it was released here as a double A-side with her version of 'Last Christmas'. I was still a bit surprised at just how bad this track turned out to be though. You know you're not onto a winner when it starts with her singing "hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho", although I suppose that makes it a logical way to follow the Outhere Brothers track. The rest of it is very very vaguely Caribbean-sounding, in a way that seems to prefigure 'Coco Jamboo' by Mr President, but this is nowhere near as good as even that. And it seems to drag on for hours too.
According to her Wikipedia entry "it has been demonstrated on numerous occasions that Whigfield does do her own vocals, whilst touring in Brazil with a live band and being requested to sing live by Neil Fox, a UK DJ. She sung all her own songs, not vocals by Annerley Gordon or somebody else." And I'd be inclined to believe that because, after all, if you were going to fake the vocals, you'd make them sound better than this. In case the name sounds familiar, Annerley Gordon co-wrote the lyrics (yes, apparently it took more than one person) and also has a credit on the Corona track from this album. She subsequently had a hit of her own as Ann Lee.
Also appearing on: Now 29, 31
Available on: Whigfield
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