1998 The Tamperer featuring Maya: Feel It

It's interesting how quaintly quaint Italian house music now sounds in 1998. Based around a sample of The Jacksons 'Can You Feel It?', 'Feel It' doesn't do much thinking outside the genre box and serves up a dance by numbers track whose main point of interest is surely the "What she's gonna look like with a chimney on her?" refrain. It paints a comic book question mark over 'Feel It' and hooks the ear, but all comes kind of clear when you realise it's a metaphor for someone falling pregnant and that the whole song is a fling of bile from Maya against a rival who had a one night stand with her boyfriend and is still hanging around ("You got it on the side, a little one night thing"). But all's well that ends well because she's sure he wont find her quite so hot when he finds out she's with child. Well get her. Other than that bizarre scenario, the main selling point for me is the Jackson sample; every time it starts up I'm dying for it to launch into 'Can You Feel It?' proper, but it never does. Which means that 'Feel It' doesn't so much leave me wanting more as not give me anything in the first place. A bit dull all told.