‘The Boy Does Nothing’ It was one of those songs that, examined over the long term, one never knows if they were fortunate or unfortunate for their performer, Alesha Dixon. It happens a bit like with ‘Blurred lines‘ of Robin Thicke. Yes, it gave her tremendous success, it became ‘the song’ of her career but… should that really be the song of her career? Didn’t he deserve Alesha Dixon that she will be remembered for another type of cut? And above all, she put a pop-camp label on it that is very difficult to remove. Also, to be honest, it’s not like she put much effort into confronting him.
That is Alesha Dixon She is one of those singers with better value as a performer than a discography per se. And for a sample, click on her latest single, ‘ransom‘, which machine-guns the classic of Ini Kamoze ‘Here Comes The Hotstepper’. One of the most irritating songs ever, if you ask us. But she has presented it in ‘Britain’s Got Talent‘ as if the success of the song in the market depended on that performance, as if it were 2009.
Alesha He took the opportunity to remember his, let’s say, legacy during the performance. And not only with ‘The Boy Does Nothing‘, converted into something darker and heavier to remove the mambo from a time when the mambo didn’t work at all: it has also gone through several hits from My–Teeqrefreshing our memory: a Dixon We knew her as the rapper of the group. And decades after that, she still has the phrasing on point, to be honest.
has remembered ‘All I Want’, ‘Be With Me’ either ‘Scandalous’ making a couple of things clear: that it would not be bad if My–Teeq get together for a little return momentum and it wouldn’t be bad for them to Alesha Take note of why those themes worked at the time. In this two-mile revival, lady Dixonwhat better than to bring back some garage and R&B of the time instead of continuing to insist on recording outtakes from Jason Derulo.
It will be your thing if: you need someone to hire for the Valladolid parties; you love reggae, you listen to Rihanna’s ‘Man Down’ a lot; You have a rented loft inside a ‘Love The 90s’.
