Saturday 3 November 2012

Sonique 'It Feels So Good'

Chart Peak: 1 [3 weeks] (originally peaked at 24 in 1998)

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Internationally acclaimed DJ/singer/songwriter Sonique started her illustrious career as a teenager when she signed her first record contract and joined forces with Mark Moore as "S-Express"... So far, the biggest track of the summer, 'It Feels So Good' spent a formidable three weeks at the top of the UK chart.
If I'd realised being a teenager was a career, I wouldn't have spent eight years doing it for free. It was in fact shortly after I'd stopped doing so that this song was first a minor hit, long before success in the US (where it eventually made the Top 10) prompted this reissue. And much better it did this time, making the year-end Top 3 and the decade-end Top 40 (although the latter is arguably not a wholly fair fight since sales were so much higher at the start and end of the decade than in the middle). It briefly made her a major star with three Top ten hits in twelve months, but only one other single ever made the Top 20, or indeed the Top 40 (not counting a couple of hits during her time with S-Express, which were long after their biggest success).

It's a song that seems determined to merge several different styles: pop, trance and soul, and doesn't care how much it has to ruin them to squeeze them in. On top of it, I always found her vocal annoyingly monotone and lacking in emotion. There's something very watered-down about the whole production that irritates me.

Also appearing on: Now 47, 48
Available on: Hear My Cry

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