1994 Baby D: Let Me Be Your Fantasy

An archetypical old school 90's British dance anthem, 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy' shares an acre of common ground with D:Ream's 'Things Can Only Get Better' in that both use a piano led house backing to carry an uplifting vocal refrain set to auto repeat. Which can describe most dance tracks I guess. I can say upfront I think 'Things' is the better song, but it failed to realise its potential through the lack of the main thing 'Let Me' has in its favour - that is, a powerhouse vocal from Dorothy Fearon that raises roofs and spirits every time she opens her mouth to deliver the invitation of the title. Like the pin that holds a Catherine wheel to the post, Fearon is the pivot around which the rest revolves, and the rest gets all the duller whenever she's not around. So it's a shame that things take a sharp detour at 3:10 into the dead end of a different tune in a different key that's playing at a rave where Fearon clearly wasn't invited. Maybe writer/producer Floyd Dyce thought it needed something to break up the repetition and maintain the interest, but it only serves to lob a brick through the state of blissed trance effected so far and the song never recovers from the intrusion. Better by far to have faded it early I think.