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Sensitivity, we learn, is an unreleased Chic demo from their
halcyon days of the 1970s, when Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards and friends
were disco pioneers, rarely accredited for their substantial influence over
popular music. Shapeshifters, meanwhile, are the folks who gave us
Lola's Theme and Back To Basics a while back. The song is heavily geared
toward 'summer anthem' status, almost with inner city parking lots awash
with boy racer cars in mind.
(As a mildly amusing aside, the first time I heard Lola's Theme I thought
the vocalist was singing "I'm a rollercoaster", and pondered over the
possible subliminal message being conveyed here, only to learn that no, this
wasn't an exercise in theme-park-feature-personification but a cry of "I'm a
different person").
This isn't as immediate as Lola's Theme or Back To Basics, but does have
the odd flash of Chic genius in the driving bass, chicken-scratch guitars
and dramatic strings which punctuate the number. That said, Shapeshifters
seem intent on neutering the once mighty Chic with their meat-and-potatoes
dance fare, thus rendering something potentially dazzling into something
rather ordinary.
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