paula lobos - your life (royalty remix featuring honestly)

i remember hearing about paula lobos in '02 after "fuss & fight" had been released and i saw the video for it on swedish music channel ztv. they showed the håkan lidbo remix and i was hooked on the first listen. it had that kind of twisted 4x4 garage wonk that was sort of reminiscent of the todd edwards remix of håkan lidbo's own "walk away" which featured lobos on vocals.

i bought the cd-single for "fuss & fight" and the following single "your life", much like the previous one i heard it on ztv and liked it a lot. it had a more dramatic hiphop sound which was different from the former who had a sort of a stripped down slow house sound.

this single also featured a dancefloor burner by a hugh jorgan (oh and this has to be a moniker because i fail to see how it could be a real name) and a electro rerub by swedish house producer niko belotto of tangent beats. but the version i listened to the most was the last track on the single.

it was a remix by royalty record's alex k who did production & was part of malmöbased group prominent. it also featured rapper honestly who was also featured on the remix to prominent's "say hey" which i was also fan of. i quite liked the first prominent records, both the ep with the killer "all these ladies" and then the bangers "she" and "say hey".

i really like alex k's beat and it fits the track really well but the changes done to the track is somewhat hard to swallow. in the original she talks about a friend who fell through the cracks and it's a serious song but most the verses were taken out in the remix.

then the song is spun into a different direction from a serious song into a club banger with the focus on honestlys verse. lobos' bridge is worked as the main verse for the track and it even that clashes with honestlys topic at hand. but to really honest, this change only bothered me when i listened to it again a short while ago.

back then it was maybe understood that the royalty remix was meant as a club track but i do still really like this track so this annoyance is just overblown maybe.

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