Craig David Bowie?
October 29, 2007 by Ailbhe Malone
Filed under Anablog
Craig David’s sampled Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ and mushed it into a song that…well….is actually ok. Granted, I have certain misgivings- mainly that the chorus has the decidedly mid-90′s opinion that a ‘Sexy thong, mini-skirt, stilletos’ are all that are needed to excite a young gentleman on the dancefloor.( Is that where I’ve been going wrong all these years?)- but as a whole it’s a lot less heinous than I had first imagined.
I guess if you’re going to sample Bowie, it’s probably safest to pick a sub-par, not-very-Bowie song such as ‘Let’s Dance’, though, really, I think Samantha Mumba has aced Craig in the Bowie stakes. While I can’t really listen to this song without thinking of that drinking and driving ad campaign that was out a few years ago, let’s close with a reminisce… By the way, note that our Sam isn’t wearing her seatbelt in the car. Geesh.
Not a bad song, but I don’t think Craig David actually remixed it himself! Seems like its attributed to a mashup artist called ‘Charlie Sansom’.
Y’see, that’s not right. In an in-depth interview in this week’s Irish Times Magazine, Ker-aig David himself told the interviewer how he had to ask Bowie’s permission. So unless this Charlie Sansom’s a pseudonym or something? Doubtfull…
Certainly no Seven Days.
Did she decline? No
Didn’t she mind? I don’t think so
Was it for real? Damn sure
What was the deal? A pretty girl aged 24
So was she keen? She couldn’t wait
Cinnamon queen? let me update
What did she say? She said she’d love to
rendezvous
She asked me what we were gonna do
said we’d start with a bottle of moet for two
Honeys, stilettos, cinnamon queens. There’s a strange misogyny – which doesn’t seem entirely benevolent – that runs through David’s oeuvre.