Search - Sasha Alexander :: If You Believe

Believe me -this is fabulous!

J. Taylor | United Kingdom | 05/01/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"OK forget everything that you have heard or read about this German teen hero Sasha (who is -I think we all understand this now, don't we- not the UK club DJ! ) and open your mind because this is absolutely fantastic! The original Backstreet Boys-type ballad is gone -remixed, reworked, replaced with this incredible US debut package. The Lenny Bertoldo edit is a slightly more uptempo version that introduces us to the man and the song. Then we get the mixes by Bobby D'Ambrosio and Wamdue Project that shoot us way up to the top floor and take this song to a whole new level! The Osio Club mix is the best thing D'Ambrosio has ever done -a gorgeous, David Morales-like journey with heavy, chunky beats, and light, seductive keyboards that tease underneath Sasha's cool vocals. The closing minutes are fantastic with a playful piano, Sasha's adlibs and the uplifting beats taking us to Peak Hour Heaven! If you adored the remixes of Marc Anthony's I Need To Know or Clapton's I Get Lost, then you'll LOVE this! It is so refreshing to hear a male pop vocal on the dancefloor. The Wamdue Club Mix stands also as the best thing the Project have done -way better than the epic mixes of the recent EBTG hit. A sublime, majestic remix with the club beats playing under dreamy percussion and the vocals (with a reworked chorus) floating over the top. I don't think I would play the original version over and over as much I do the remixes. That said, the song itself is simple yet easy to listen to with a catchy, seductive chorus and Sasha's vocals are superb. A classy debut that is well worth checking out. Congratulations, once again, to Reprise Records for providing the song-breaking, fabulous remixes!"

WARNING! WARNING!

Adrian Thacker | 04/01/2000

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I picked this one up thinking that it was the Sasha of "Xpander" fame. Well, I was mistaken. What we have here is a "power ballad" (if you can call it that) by some cute boy. Absolutely useless and embarrassingly bad. Each mix sounds the same as the next, so what is the point of having a remix?Anyways, this song is bound to make teenage girls swoon, but it does absolutely nothing for me."