--- "Alan R. Lockett" <aloc8145@mail.usyd.edu.au>
wrote:
quoted 9 lines Weirdness. One night a few weeks ago I accidentally
> Weirdness. One night a few weeks ago I accidentally
> caught _Top of the Pops_
> (a bit like catching clap these days only more
> embarrassing and painful) on
> TV and there was yet another of those girlie
> threesomes, this one doing a truly
> execrable r'n'b-talk-rap over a largely untampered
> with backdrop of Gazza's
> _Are Friends Electric?_
(I hope nobody else followed this up already)
That trio was "The Sugababes". The vocals they were
singing was the song "Freak Like Me" by Adina Howard,
released mid 90s if I remember. Richard X alias Girls
on Top took the Adina Howard vocals and stuck them on
top of the Are Friends Electric instrumental (bit) and
released it as a "bootleg". (They were big in the UK a
while back)
Virgin (or whoever the hell) then signed Richard X and
asked him to basically replicate that same track
except have the Sugababes sing the vocals. The result
being a lot poorer than his "original".
Richard X/Girls on Top has also done some other stuff
like mixing Whitney Housten (how do you spell her
second name again?) and Kraftwerk, and TLC with The
Human League. Catchy.
-skkatter
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