Jazmine Sullivan - Dream Big
Jazmine Sullivan was responsible for one of last years most impressive debuts, gathering all critics as her fans with the voice of Lauryn Hill. Her stylistically unfocused but well performed album wasn’t my cup of tea, but a couple of songs like ‘Busting Your Windows’ and ‘Call Me Guilty’ were impossible not to fall for.
Above is the video for her new single ‘Dream Big’ (pardon the poor quality, I’ll find a better version tomorrow), a great song but with a dubious feeling I never could ignore. Below you find the Swedish legend Stonebridge’s remix of the same track which erases all uncertainty about the song’s attempts, and makes it the true dance floor banger it wants to be.
Jazmine Sullivan - Dream Big (Stonebridge Remix)
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Hmm, I think you’re wrong here. If they wanted it to be a dance floor banger, they would have made one. The Stonebridge remix is in my opinion the result of how it absolutely not should be. Where the original is carried and pushed forward on the fact that it samples dance music (Daft Punk-”Veridis Quo”) and made it into a cool and different urban/soul track, the remix just takes it back to dance again. The remix is not bad, just pointless. Just thoughts.
Mmm, you might be right. Guess I sould have written: the remix makes the track the dance floor banger “I want it to be”, and not just a so so song sampling the Daft Punk classic in a rather uninspired way.