There's a Danish group called KLM who've done about ten remixes of it so it's playing a lot in Scandinavia. "I'd definitely be up for doing it again. How would you feel about 'Saturday Night' being re-released? I don't want to lock myself into one thing." I've been producing and songwriting with some German DJs and also making a lot of chilled and trance music. I got in touch with my management and did some more gigs and projects with people like Benny Benassi. "I stopped touring in 2001 and took some time off but I got bored very quickly.
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I never really got stage-fright, but I did get nervous when I did things like TV and promotion. It wasn't just me on the bill, but it was breathtaking. And I did a show in Gorky Park in Moscow to about one million people. "Stepping out of airplanes and having photographers following you was always pretty crazy. What was the most memorable moment of the 'Saturday Night' craze for you? I was in Portugal about six months later when I had a phone call from the BBC asking me to come over because it was about to get to number one in the UK." It was a very social event every time the song came on. A radio station in Madrid started playing the song every Saturday night and people started doing the dance routine on the beach and in the clubs. "We tried to get the song released through many different labels in 1993, but eventually found a company in Spain who took it up. How did your success with 'Saturday Night' come about? As part of a new weekly feature, we called up Sannie Carlson - as Whigfield's known to her friends - to find out what happened to her. She notched up four further top 40 hits, but then it all went disappointingly hush-hush. Just equip yourself with a handful of strangers, a dingy club and some flat shoes, and you’re set to link arms and spin the night away.Uniting the world with its feelgood Euro beats and memorable dance routine, 'Saturday Night' shot straight to number one in 1994, making Denmark's Whigfield a star overnight.
This dance is a WAY better version of Zumba, that burns far more calories, and is much more fun. Not strictly a 90s song, but re-released in the fourth year of the wonderful decade, so hey ho. Not only did this inspire generations of university girls (and some boys) to dress as naughty schoolchildren for fancy dress nights forevermore, but this song is one of the best-selling singles of all time – even though we’re not actually 100% sure what it means. Pre-head shaving and divorce, Britney was an innocent teen strutting her stuff by the school lockers. Apart from, perhaps, the Chicken Man’s rendition of it on the X Factor. For the rest of you guys, no excuse to like this song. We bloody know Backstreet’s back, all right? Every time it gets played, it’s an embarrassing reminder that we really, really fancied Nick Carter – because of, and not in spite of, his floaty blonde curtains.Ī perfect anthem for those who were the appropriate age to play with Barbies at the time. Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) – Backstreet Boys Especially the bit about the three little pigs.Ħ. Say you will, say you won’t, say you’ll do what I don’t – say what you like about the band’s dodgy outfits and hairdos, you definitely still dance furiously when this comes on. Proof – before the days of Nicki Minaj – that you really don’t need to say anything at all in a song for it to be a stonking success. For years, you could barely listen to anything else on the radio. Wannabe was their first song – and who’d have thought they had an A-list designer in their midst back in the days of Union Jack dresses? I always pray for this song to come on so I don’t actually have to come up with my own dance moves.Įven though the lyrics to this song are most definitely incorrect (if you wanna be my lover, you’d most definitely better NOT get with my friends) the Spice Girls are an enduring symbol of 90s pop, girl power and fabulous outfits. Not one person knows the real words to the chorus of this song (by the way, it’s ‘dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena, que tu cuerpo es pa’ darle alegria y cosa buena, dale a tu cuerpo alegria Macarena, heyyy Macarena!’) – but by God is it legendary. This song stayed at the top of the charts for a whole month. Jumping too soon, making up hand movements and even singing the wrong words. Of course we always get the order of this dance wrong.