Kate Ryan

There are similarities between steroid-taking baseballers and trancepop. You take a fairly normal body, pump it up artificially and then take it on the road to perform in superdomes. Only there, in the spotlights and watched by thousands, it is most effective. Trance and trance-pop are my pet peeves, but if pushed, I'm willing to acknowledge that when played up to 11 in big arenas (or with a heavy foot on the gas pedal), it sure works. Phil Wilde knows this too, that's why he produced millionsellers for 2Unlimited and Belgian blonde Katrien Verbeek, better known as Kate Ryan. Her cover of Mylène Farmer's Desenchantée was a major hit in 2002. It's a steroid version of the original, just as her new single Voyage Voyage is a superdome makeover of Desireless' eighties-classic. Not my favourite covers ever, but at the right place, and the right moment, i do feel imaginary glowsticks in my hands. [By the way: what do you think of the Mylene Farmer-clip to Desenchantée?]

Kate Ryan - Desenchantée (clip)
Kate Ryan - Voyage Voyage (clip)
Mylène Farmer - Desenchantée (clip)
Desireless - Voyage Voyage (clip)

I did not find the mp3 of this, but here's another (very funny) Voyage Voyage-cover:
Vincent Malone - Voyage Voyage