Such a lovely song this. Much prefer the album version though compared to the single remixes though.
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Again yes! Single tried to be too much Black Box
And not working out in the slightest! At least I think so.
That has to be my least favourite vocal lock effect of all!
I agree the album version intro is kinda abrupt but I love how it just gets stuck right in, making you sit up and take notice. It’s like a fanfare.
Add me to the single of I Don't Wanna Get Hurt love! Great song all round though, even if Donna herself I believe wasn't too much of a fan.
Still don’t get what happened there. So she was happy enough to record it in the first place… but then didn’t want it to be a single so refused to make a video (maybe it was just the remix she didn’t like?)….. but then agreed to lip synch it on TOTP (which I don’t think she did for the first single)?
I agree, doesn't add up somehow. At least she did some promo for it all the same I suppose.
I agree, the remix sounds a bit ‘wrong’ to my ears, as it omits some of the really satisfying hooks in the original arrangement - I’m waiting for these little melodic pay-offs that never happen, as they’ve been removed!
I always think when the second single is radically remixed it shows a lack of faith in the material and in this case it was unfounded.
Which is funny because they made the Love’s About To Change My Heart single one of the gayest mixes ever committed to tape.
'I Don't Want to Get Hurt' is... fine. A little juvenile for Donna in my opinion, but fine. I do think she was right about not being the best second single, the album had at least 3 better choices.
Donna was always right on the money with single choices, 'Oh Billy, Please' was ROBBED.
Donna was always right on the money with single choices, 'Oh Billy, Please' was ROBBED.
It's that time of year when we can listen to the definitive version of this song
Sonia makes famine sound cheery!
Sonia makes famine sound cheery!
Yes, my go to version for this for sure-and not sorry either!
So many classic moments on this. It never gets mentioned but Lisa Stansfield’s no ra-a-a-a-eeeeeen or r-iiiiii-ver flooooows cracks me up just as much as Sonia.
Unpopular opinion but I think I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt was totally wrong for Donna. It’s a teenagers song so should have been Sonia. Donna was all about belting it out, which Love’s About To Change My Heart captures perfectly for her
I already have listened to it yesterday! (And the Yuletide Sleighlist Mix of When You Come Back To Me and SAW Mix of Every Day’s Like Christmas)