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Cascada-Perfect Day

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So im guessing this is the latest single, also the title to their new album... Correct????? Anyway, not a bad song, if you like the other Cascada songs, you'll like this one. Same Euro Beat as the other songs. I like it better than What Hurts the most.
 
Doubtfully.... I havent heard it before.. JP can tell ya for sure.
 
It's neither a Dylan cover or an announced 2nd single. In fact, I'm willing to bet that it's not a 3rd single either. Not that it's a bad song. There's just newer stuff that has probably jumped ahead of it on the single possibilities chart.

As for the songs that CHRles posted links to, only one of them is on the US album.

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CHRles,

A common knock from people that don't like, get or understand Cascada is that all of their tracks sound the same. I think you can look at it a number of ways. The first is that you probably shouldn't mess with success. Prime example is a group like AC/DC, 30 years in and they've been playing the same 3 chords on every song on every album. They are world famous, sold millions upon millions of records, have fans around the world (myself included) and it works for them. And that's really all that matters.

Cascada is one of, if not, the biggest selling dance act in the world. Yes, the world. So while you may call it "mediocre junk", people love the music they put out. They support the group on tour, with merchandise and by purchasing the music. So call it what you wish but it's what works for this group at this time.

Now let's look at the other side, what if they did change their signature sound and everyone hated it? Then people would sit back and say see their one-hit wonders, they suck. It's really a no win situation like a lot of the dance game. How's that old Don Henley song go, "Kick 'em when their up, Kick 'em when their down." That's ok, they'll continue to sell millions of records to those that get it regardless of the haters.

So maybe instead of spewing venom and calling what you don't like "mediocre junk" in an attempt to discredit the group, just say hey it not my cup of tea but I can respect that they are reaching an audience and making dance music more accessible for the community even if I don't understand why. Hey, maybe one day your championing of "Jumpstyle" will pay off. You know it's not my cup of tea...

jp
 
JP, I actually like some Euro-Dance, and liked some of Cascada's older records. A lot of Euro acts go with a tried and true formula yet the best ones mainly release records that aren't remakes. Da Buzz, Lasgo, Milk Inc., and from the 90s you had brilliant Euro acts like Culture Beat, Snap, and Jam & Spoon. All 3 are from Germany, like Cascada, yet Cascada is very mediocre compared to them.
Italy for example got really annoying in the early 2000s when every act sounding like Eiffel 65 with that annoying vocoder (which is now everso present in Hip Hop with T-Pain and now Snoop) and the same bassdrum.
Cascada remade "Sk8er Boy" for crying out loud. There might be a serious cheese storage in Wisconsin if this song picks up steam :p

You're absolutely right that a lot of Rock acts fall in that same trap, especially when it comes to the harder Death and Doom Metal bands of the 90s. AC/DC though are great with "Thunderstruck" or "Back In Black", just like Green Day were awesome with their 3 chord records, like "Longview" (fantastic gen-X lyrics), "Welcome To Paradise", "Brainstew", and their big hits. Or you have thhese awesome theatrical bands like Iron Maiden's "666 (Number of the Beast)", or "Fear of the Dark".
And again what does Cascada bring to the table? An Avril Lavigne cover song, yippee...
 
What Cascada brings to the table(in USA) is success,sales and CHR crossover, the only dance act to do so in the past year;
if success,sales and CHR crossover means nothing to the hard core heads around here,that explains dance's dire dilemma
 
Cascada's success has never relied on hardcore Dance fans such as myself. That's why they've never won anything at the WMC. Instead they've won over many Pop fans, which is not exactly a bad place to be in ;) I'm not a big fan of some of their records, but do enjoy some of their music.
 
In addition to all of the things that Jimi stated, they also bring something that most dance acts today lack, entertainment value.

In answer to your belief that they never relied on "hardcore dance fans", that's simply not true. As we've discussed before, there are plenty of dance fans that love different sub-genres within dance none more important than the other. It was those very "hardcore dance fans" that you say they didn't rely on that made "Everytime We Touch" a massive success. They were all over that song before pop radio was. It was those fans that jammed the clubs of Chicago and Long Island that made them one of the biggest dance draws ever. I've seen crowds line up around the block trying to get in to see Cascada. That all happened before Z100 championed the record.

Also they were named "Best New Artist" at the International Dance Music Awards at the same WMC where you claim they "never won anything."

Just sayin'....

jp
 
well,the point is that many here like to gang up on pop dance acts that dare to be successful,and basically dismiss them in a snooty,holier than thou stance which is the calling card of most in dance these days;
then the same people will jump all over me when I post a contrary point of view,declare it sour grapes because my tracks(here in USA) didn't make all the silly little charts of the dance world that mean nothing in the real music industry in America,and they'll tell me to stop being negative because I'm so bitter..
and then in the next post they'll be back to bashing Cascada,Robbins type output,etc in the most scathing negative terms,and have no problem doing that..
it's all a bit of a tragic joke, isn't it, my dah-lings?
 
Oh brother. First of all Jimi, most of the people on this board simply don't like your records, plain and simple. Doesnt mean those people don't like underground records, it just means they don't think your records are all that interesting.
Secondly, just b/c I respect JP and Robbins, doesn't mean I'm gonna suck up to someone if I'm not a fan.
I like CHR radio yet don't like every song on the charts. I like Dance music, but don't like every Dance record or artist that crosses over. I don't like every single House and Trance DJ either. Not every record Tiesto, Oakie, or PVD release are gonna be big with me.
What's obvious is that I don't have to like Cascada to like some Euro (or in my case Cascada's remakes) just like I don't have to like "Dancefloor" by Lalumia to like underground Electronica.

Stop boxing people into these neat little squares - not everything's so black & white.
I don't think Dance music is in a bad place. I think it's great that a lot of Dance fans aren't sheep that all like the same 5 songs, as is a lot of times the case with the more mainstream Hip Hop and Rock fans.

Again, Cascada have found their niche, and are in some small way comparable to Nickleback or Soulja Boy. People aren't always going to say nice things about them, but they're laughing all the way to the bank.
 
I could care less who likes what, the point of the paragraph dealt with the double standard hipocracy in many posts,I could care less who does or dosen't like my work here,much heavier people have expressed their pleasure in my little projects,worldwide, but that's not the subject matter here..
and if you don't think dance is in a bad place in America(no stars,no best selling cds/albums,no prescense in tv shows, soundtracks; shunned for the most part by CHR in the US from coast to coast,no impact at MTV,VH1, Fuse,etc,no scene associated with dance except for guidos and behind the times gays in NY and Florida,I could go on..)then I guess you don't know what a bad place in the music industry is;not to mention the fact that the music industry itself is in it's death throes
 
Insitgator is a pretty cool dude. He may not like Amy Winehouse ;D but he's very passionate about Dance music. Keep it up bro.
 
Lalumia, alot of us like the Danity Kane track, but there is no need to keep bringing it up, it makes me look bad, and im trying to be friends with Chrles, I still have alot of respect for him even though we dont always see eye to eye on whats a good Dance record. We are both huge fans of CHR music as well, and we usually agree with each other on what makes a quality top 40 record, we also both love International Hits and Dance from Europe and some from Latin America.
 
It's all good Clubber. Jimi is just trying to get a reaction out of people. I suppose the Danity Kane ain't horrible, but as the Favorite Tracks Right Now thread shows, there are plenty of records out right now that I feel are better (or am into).
I don't think a place like the Bunkhouse is my cup of tea as it seems all they play is "Dancefloor" by Lalumia, mash-ups like Soulja Boly vs. Lalumia, and Pop records like Danity Kane. I'm very excited though about the fact that Sasha & Digweed will be spinning together in Nashville in April!
 
in argreement:
i meant w/ the Cascada, "all sounding the same"/and continuing the trend of the
"dance remake" , or as the general populus calls it

"they make a techno mix outta it "
 
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