"Sorry" - another review

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Zog · #1 Post by **Zog** » Mon 27 Feb 2006, 10:30 am

... and, sorry if this has been posted before:

http://dancemusic.about.com/od/reviews/ ... rryPSB.htm

Madonna - Sorry (Pet Shop Boys Remix)

from Jason Shawhan
The eight thoughts that emerged in my brain while listening to the Pet Shop Boys

Guide Rating ***** rating

1. How has this not happened before? The two most continually relevant and iconic dance artists of the eighties (and nineties and aughts, for that matter) never managed to work together before?

2. Those bright bouncy Whitney "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" bleeps, and a slightly oomphier bassline than the original version, but there's a remarkable use of a double breakdown in the intro.

3. The added Neil Tennant vocals make the spoken word intro much easier to deal with. No longer does it seem silly.

4. Then Madonna's voice hits that first chorus and the production hits you like the most delicious 80s bonbon.

5. Make no mistake, the sound is aggressive, very butch for PSB and Madonna, with a muscular lead synth and a serious subsonic hook.

6. There's a glorious break just before the five minute mark, leading inexorably to the reentry of that delicious pounding drum program.

7. This seems to me to be the perfect fruition of the Pet Shop Boys' dancefloor sound, incorporating elements of their various own detours into subgenre and refining them into a unified theory of energy, and when I say energy, I mean NRG.

-Zog

Zog · #2 Post by **Zog** » Mon 27 Feb 2006, 10:35 am

Also from a guy in Melbourne:

http://www.madonnalicious.com/

"I was at dance party yesterday afternoon that takes place in a park in the city of Melbourne. It was part of the Gay & Lesbian Mid Summa Festival.
When the Pet Shop Boy's Sorry mix started people ran to the dance floor and went crazy (there was easily more than 1,500 people there).
When it came to the chorus, everyone was jumping up down and singing the words out loud together. It was an amazing 'Madonna loving' experience.
It looks as though Sorry will be a huge hit Melbourne."

-Zog

Hmmm · #3 Post by **Hmmm** » Mon 27 Feb 2006, 1:27 pm

Thanks for posting .

psb-freak · #4 Post by **psb-freak** » Mon 27 Feb 2006, 3:39 pm

It´s PSB hitting the dancefloor. Maybe people wouldn´t have danced if it was the normal single-version.