Fancy Some Extra?’s remixes are break up into two discs, one that includes vocalists and the opposite producers. (The discharge additionally features a third disc, that includes the unique tape.) Scanning the visitor record is, I think about, what it’s prefer to flick via Pink’s iPod. On the vocalist facet, you have got Okay-pop stars (SEVENTEEN and Yves from LOONA) alt-pop it women (Oklou, Rachel Chinouriri, Ravyn Lenae, Bladee), and centrist stars with underground clout (Zara Larsson, JADE, Kylie Minogue, JT, Sugababes). The producer disc largely options artists who bore clear affect on Fancy That (Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Joe Goddard) alongside upstart locals (Nia Archives, Leod, Kilimanjaro) and in addition Kaytranada, seemingly saved on retainer by the main labels for any remixing wants. The mission is rounded out by a coterie of Brazilians—Anitta, DJ Caio Prince, Adame DJ, and Mochakk—which, optimistically, indicators the sound of future PinkPantheress music.
The overwhelming majority of those remixes completely bang, and plenty of of them serve the perform of want achievement. Have you ever (like me) ever needed “Unlawful” to really feel even sooner and extra disorienting? Nia Archives, London’s premiere younger junglist, makes the entire music really feel like a 90-degree drop on a rollercoaster. Have you ever been scouring SoundCloud for a mashup of “Stateside” with its religious forebear, Kylie Minogue’s “Sluggish”? Right here’s la grand dame herself whispering “Are you prepared for me?” and eliciting goosebumps when she sings “By no means met an Aussie woman, you say.” The sky appears to crack huge open when the Sugababes drop into “Good to Know You” and supply a hi-fi rendition of the hook Pink sampled on the unique model of the monitor.
The simplest remixes flip the unique songs on their head: Basement Jaxx flip “Tonight,” one of many least dance-forward tracks on Fancy That, right into a throbbing, shimmery big-room banger, its five-minute runtime virtually begging for a 12” model. In the meantime, Caio Prince and Adame traverse baile funk, Miami bass, and fight-ready massive beat on their flip of the beforehand light-weight “Stars.” Oklou drags the Basement Jaxx pattern on “Lady Like Me” as far out of its unique context as she will be able to take it, making the liberated chorus of “Let all of it go” sound much less like dancefloor hedonism and extra like a determined try to recover from a lingering heartbreak.
Except Kaytranada’s “Lady Like Me”—which sounds roughly the identical as each different Kaytranada remix in current reminiscence—it appears like all these tracks have been made with a degree of care unusual for a significant label remix album, which so usually really feel simple money grabs or makes an attempt to delay an album cycle that’s operating out of steam. Fancy Some Extra? appears like a rowdy, well-earned celebration and reaffirms the primary concepts PinkPantheress has gestured towards for a lot of the 12 months: Heavy reference doesn’t inherently go hand-in-hand with an absence of ingenuity. Successive generations of dance producers don’t must be at warfare with one another. Pop music, carried out proper, can really feel like the important thing to a world that is smarter, extra free, and far more enjoyable.
