It killed off Wet Wet Wet (probably forced Pellow to smack). “Saturday Night” to me is a cultural milestone. But does go to some way to explaining why I consider “Think Of You” Whigfield’s only proper song. Oh the schadenfreude!Īll of of which is STILL not about “Think Of You”. This sweet little pop confection that came WITH A DANCE! That was what Ibiza ’94 was all about. So when I finally heard the fruits of this hardkore summer of action I was abit surprised.
All though the summer the all new down with the kids Radio One, I mean One FM, had been banging on about Ibiza, Peter Tonging from the Island during its club heavy weekends. I had just left University, and the island of clubs was a post-exam destination for lots of people I knew (and didn’t much like ). But my primary memories of “Saturday Night” is associating it with Ibiza. It also had the extreme good fortune to knock Wet Wet Wet’s “Love is All Around” off of the top of the charts engendering Whigfield with an indie cred that could not be derived from the song itself. By the time it was finally released in the UK it had a ready made audience.
But “Saturday Night” was a holiday pop song which came from Ibiza, the ubiquitous pop club banger which everyone knew on their way home. The “holiday” song was not a new phenomenon by the time summer 1994 came around. Indeed Aqua seemed to be Whigfield fronting the B-52’s* such their equivalent lasting appeals and places in pop. If hard pushed to name another Whigfield song, the smart people may remember “Think of You”, but would be easily sidetracked into saying “Turn Back Time” by Aqua. You can’t talk about Whigfield without talking about “Saturday Night”, and the problem with that is that in the end “Saturday Night” is probably all you end up talking about. What do I think of when I think of “Think Of You”?
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