I give up. Abandoning his previous husky-voiced balladry and pop-rock, Dutch singer Jim returns with a new single and new style. "Feel You Love" is a RedOne ripoff with a level of shamelessness not heard since Cascada's "Evacuate The Dancefloor," only with the budget RedOne-style beats made even more stop-start. It is incredibly cheesy, I'm not sure I'd introduce it to any of my friends, and the music video opens up with a shirtless male model and ends with a couple undressing each other--because jumping on the sound-of-the-moment bandwagon wasn't desperate enough, apparently...
...and yet every time it comes on, I find myself fighting the impulse to jump up and down, hands in the air. I'm surrendering to the stupid, mindless giddiness, no longer able to resist: if you're looking for cheap fun with minimal risk of negative aftereffects later, a sort of counterpart to Enrique Iglesias's "I Like It," "Feel Your Love" comes highly recommended.
Jim's single "Feel Your Love" is available on iTunes internationally here.
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Ohhhh, what a voice! Yep, RedOnish a lot but it's a top-stuff - great production, high catchiness and fantastic vocal are there. So tell me this guy has more songs sounding like this and I'll be a fan!
Yay, Damian! So glad to hear that. He really does have a great voice. This is kind of a reinvention for him--he's been much more pop-rock for his past couple albums, though b-side/album track "Altijd" is the rare electro-flavored exception. His signature song is probably his debut single, a ballad called "Tell Her;" both Jim and the song are pretty rough around the edges at that early point, though, but there's still a sweet cheesiness to it. I've always kind of been partial to "Fenomeen" from his second-to-most-recent album, but, once again, that's not at all in this style. Hopefully he'll keep making songs this strong and of this type, though--it suits him surprisingly well! I really think it's not just random-European-act-on-a-small-label-good, but genuinely full-on, wherever-you-are and in-whatever-context good.
At the end of August his 2nd single will be out called 'wave' (theres a snippet on youtube) His new album will be full of this great stuff :D
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