One Beat Wonder

Most bands whose songs all sound the same - The Beatles, for example - are complete and utter wank, but Cascada, be-shorted purveyor of all things THUDTHUDTHUD, has managed to turn the simple act of starting and ending all her tunes the same way into an art form.

Previous album ‘Every Time We Touch’ was remarkable for the fact that every single song on it - bar the ballad - featured exactly the same beat, dutifully ushered in near the start of each track, following eight or twelve bars of conspicuously unbanging melody.

It also had an amazing cover of ‘Kids In America’ on it. Cascada’s new album ‘Perfect Day’ pulls much the same trick, only this time the covers are even better than before.

First up for the Casio treatment is Avril Lavigne’s don’t-judge-a-book-by-its-skateboard hit ‘Sk8r Boi’, transformed here from angsty punk snarl into MASSIVE CLUB BANGER at the touch of a button (the one marked ‘demo mode’).

And just when you think things cannot get any more ridiculous, along comes an amyl o’clock version of Pink’s ‘Just Like A Pill’, which forgoes Misszundasszsztood’s whingepop priorities in favour of cranking the lipgloss up to eleven and having a good old dance.

You’ll probably fancy a pill after hearing it. For your headache.

Cascada - Just Like A Pill (MPTHREE)

Enjoy. x