I’ve said it time and time again, that I hate dance music. And yet, I seem to like an awful lot of dance music these days. Lolly, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Geri Halliwell, Madonna, Gwen Stefani … I guess what I’m really trying to say when I say I hate dance music is that I hate most of it … or to be more general, that I hate bad music, or to be even more general, that I hate music that isn’t musical. Which I guess goes without saying.

Tiffany’s last album really blew me away, but this is worlds away from the acoustic angsty stuff of “The Color of Silence”. To me personally, this album is what would happen if Lolly recorded a new album in a few years time. It’s very Lolly-ish … but a lot more mature, lyrically and musically.

Having said about not minding the dance nature of “Dust off and Dance,” I wanna say, I’d love to hear other versions of these songs. They’re not the usual simple repetitive patterns you get laid over a single pounding kick drum. “Artificial Girlfriend,” for example, has a major 60s vibe to it, I can imagine it being done with a “Bangles” type approach.

The star of the show for most people, including me, will be the new version of “I Think We’re Alone Now,” Tiffany’s biggest hit way back in the Eighties – this song has been remixed before, and I wanted to slaughter the perpitrators … but give it to the girl who originally made the song so beautiful, like what, 20 years after it was a hit? And it’s still cheesy-ass dance remix stuff … but it rocks. That this track doesn’t look to be appearing in any pop charts anytime soon (‘normal’ people probably think Tiffany is either dead or homeless, reminds me of when I told some relatives I saw Vanessa Paradis in concert in 2001 – “what is she still alive??”) is a crime, this is the track of the summer (for little old me, at least).

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