Someone said to me how everything is going retro these days, i think it was in connection with Amy Winehouse’s take on sixties’ soul. The resurgence of BEN was discussed here a few days ago. I also find that my favorite eurotrash tracks are increasingly being covered by aspiring artists on Idols and such. And so I was searching for a decent video of Lindsey de Paul’s “Sugar Me”, when I found a recent version of that great song: a modern rendering by Nasia Christie. What can I say? Everything that made the original an instant hit has been sacrificed to packageability: the piano, the quirky organ, the classy sensuality of it. And there’s a huge difference between Lindsey de Paul and Nasia Christie. It was de Paul’s high class delivery of what is essentially a very trashy sonf and the era in which the song was released that made it what it is: she never had a hit quite like it.
Lindsey de Paul
Nasia Christie
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