A while back, I wrote here of my initial excitement over the reappearance of Australian soft-popsters Air Supply both in stores (with their new album Mumbo Jumbo) and on the U.S. charts (with the song “Dance With Me”), and then of my serious disappointment with the music itself. It had been nearly 25 years since I’d been excited about Air Supply, but it only took a moment for that hot air balloon to […]
Taio Cruz made his U.S. chart debut this year with “Break Your Heart”, but he’s been a known quantity in Europe for a couple years now where that song went top 10 in at least a half dozen territories last fall. When his current album (his second) Rokstarr was released internationally, this song was its sophomore single. If Cruz was warning us not to fall in love with him in “Break Your […]
As VH-1 has proven time and again, there is life after one-hit-wonder-dom. In the case of the Carribean-born 90s Eurodisco titan Haddaway, there was “Life” after his one hit “What Is Love”. “Life (Everybody Needs Somebody To Love)” was Haddaway’s follow-up single but it stopped just short of the Top 40, and like everything else Haddaway’s put out since, it has since been completely obscured by the afterlife of its predecessor, immortalized in […]