Beyoncé feat. Jay Z. - Déjà Vu (2006)

Beyoncé - Déjà Vu - Freemasons Remix (2006)
UK#1, HUN#2, Euro Hot100 #2, IRL#3, NOR#3, CH#3, US#4, IT#4, FIN#6, BE#8, DE#9, SWE#11, AUS#12, AT#12, NL#13, NZ#15, DK#16, CZK#21, FR#23, SVK#43



Lyrics:

Baby, seem like everywhere I go I see you
From your eyes I smile, it's like I breathe you
Helplessly I reminisce, don't want to
Compare nobody to you

Boy, I try to catch myself but I'm outta control
Your sexiness is so appealing, I can't let it go, baby

Know that I can't get over you, 'cause everything I see is you
And I don't want no substitute, baby, I swear it's deja vu
Know that I can't get over you, 'cause everything I see is you
And I don't want no substitute, baby, I swear it's deja vu

Baby, I can't go anywhere without thinking that you're there
Seems like you're everywhere, it's true, gotta be having deja vu
'Cause in my mind I want you here, get on the next plane, I don't care
I'm missing you, that I'm having deja vu

Boy, I try to catch myself but I'm outta control
Your sexiness is so appealing, I can't let it go

Know that I can't get over you, 'cause everything I see is you
And I don't want no substitute, baby, I swear it's deja vu
Know that I can't get over you, 'cause everything I see is you
And I don't want no substitute, baby, I swear it's deja vu

Know that I can't get over you, 'cause everything I see is you
And I don't want no substitute, baby, I swear it's deja vu
Know that I can't get over you, 'cause everything I see is you
And I don't want no substitute, baby, I swear it's deja vu

Faith Evans - Mesmerized (2005)

Faith Evans - Mesmerized - Freemasons Remix (2005)
NL#12, AUS#41, UK#48, US#111



Lyrics:

Now let me holla at you for a minute
‘Cuz I just got somethin’ that I need to say
You ever heard about that thing?
I mean that reeeal thing?
I mean sometimes when you just can’t even sleep, you can’t think
You just lose yoself, wrapped all up in it
Hmm, shit baby, you got me mesmerized
Let me sing it for you

You don’t know
What you do to me
Let me tell ya
How ya make me feel
I need yo lovin’
It’s so good to me
I can’t even sleep. Oh!
Boy, you got me weak. Yeah!
My heart is on fire since you put that thang on me, ooh
You put that thang on me, that thang, baby

Ooh baby, baby, baby, baby mesmerized
I said 1…2…3…4 hit it, uh!
Ooh baby, baby, baby, baby mesmerized

You got me mesmerized
I don’t know what to do
Baby got me hypnotized
I think I’m in love with you
You got me so caught up
Baby, I’m spellbound
I’m floatin’ on cloud nine
And I don’t think I’m comin’ down
Don’t you know
What you do to me?
Baby, baby, it’s like ecstasy
I can’t even sleep
Boy, you got me weak
My heart is on fire since you put that thang on me, ooh!

Ooh baby, baby, baby, baby mesmerized. Ooh baby.
I said 1…2…3…4 hit it, uh!
Ooh baby, baby, baby, baby mesmerized
Baby, I’m hypnotized, yeah

I just can’t understand, I can’t understand
You got me lookin’ so crazy, baby
You got me lookin’ so crazy right now
Make me wanna clap my hands
Make me wanna stomp my feet
Make me feel real, real good
When you put that thang on me
Let me tell you now

I can’t even sleep
Boy you got me weak
Your love is so sweet
Said you knock me off my feet

Ooh baby, baby, baby, baby mesmerized
I said 1…2…3…4 hit it, uh!
Ooh baby, baby, baby, baby mesmerized

You’ve got me mesmerized
Don’t know just what to do, I’m hypnotized
Oh you got me, oh you got me, yeah, yeah, yeah
C’mon! Ain’t it funky now!

You got me mesmerized
I don’t know what to do
Baby got me hypnotized
I think I’m in love with you
You got me so caught up
Baby, I’m spellbound
I’m floatin’ on cloud nine
And I don’t think I’m comin’ down
Don’t you…

Serdar Ortaç - Dansöz (2006)

Born 1970 in Istanbul, Serdar Ortaç today is one of the most popular and successful artists of the Turkish pop scene. While many younger singers enjoyed the support of the more established stars in the country's entertainment industry, such as Sezen Aksu, Serdar was left to fight for himself - and made it to the top. Having received the KRAL (Turkey's answer to MTV) Award for male breakthrough artist in 1994 for his debut album Aşk İçin, which sold over 2 million copies in the Turkish language region, it wasn't until 2006 that I heard of him after getting to know my husband Mehmet and Gee, whom introduced me to a Turkish/Greek/Arabian Club Night 'Yalla' in London's Green Lanes.
Dansöz was one of the first Turkish tracks I grew fond of. It tells - of course - a story of love and a broken heart, rebound and that that there are 'so many fish in the sea', except that that is expressed as 'there are so many dancers (dansöz)'

Serdar Ortaç - Dansöz (2006)



Lyrics:

İtiraf ediyorum sana itiraf.
Başladı yaralı aşklara tadilat
Masumum, dışarıdan daha masumum,
Maalesef, bunun için sana mecburum.
Yüksek uçan kuşun, yüreği sarhoşun.
Acı çeker gibi, kölesi olmuşum.
Kavga edenlere, bana küsenlere.
Yüreği çark edip, geri dönenlere.
Affet diyen kim? Ez geç diyen kim?
Aşktan çeken kim? Benim kadar...
Ölene kadar aşık olamazsın
Birisi çıkar onu anlayamazsın
Sen o tür oyunlara katlanamazsın
Senin bir kalbin var...
Hadi diyelim biri çok deli sevdi
Senin için her şeyi her şeyi verdi
Ya bir gün olur sana bel kıvırırsa?
Binlerce dansöz var...

Black Box

One of the leading exponents of a wave of Italian house music that flourished on the dancefloors of the late 80s and early 90s, Black Box comprised of three Italian studio musicians: Daniele Davoli, known as DJ Lelewel in Italy, largely at the Marabu Starlight Club and responsible for the hit single 'Grand Piano', another prime example of sampled Italo-house, Mirko Limoni, the computer and keyboard whizz kid of the trio, and Valerio Semplici, a clarinet teacher playing in the Music Orchestra in Bologna. Collectively they are known as Groove Groove Melody. Based in the Reggio Emilia area in Northern Italy, the team made use of Catherine Quinol as a front woman for Black Box. Born in Pointe a Pitre, on French-Caribbean island Guadeloupe, Catherine was raised in Paris, where she completed her studies. She made her debut in the haute couture world at an early age, working as a model for famous fashion designers.

Daniele, Mirko and Valerio noticed her in a disco and launched her music career of lip-synching to pre-recorded Black Box music tracks in both music videos and live performances. Catherine never actually contributed musically to any of Black Box's hits.
The British music industry soon spotted Ride On Time, as the first one of a dozen singles a year the trio was churning out. After securing international copyright, of their re-production of Loletta Holloway's 'Love Sensation', it became the first of a series of Italian house records to crossover to the UK charts, staying at UK#1 for six weeks in 1989, becoming the best dance selling record of all times. It was remixed and re-released several times thereafter.
Although this was by far Black Box's biggest hit, they didn't make much money from it as Loleatta Holloway sued them. There is still no love lost between them. Loleatta got an expensive fur coat out of the compensation money they had to pay her. Other producers later also covered (such as the Freemasons) and sampled Loleatta's vocals from 'Love Sensation', including Cevin Fisher on '(You Got Me) Burning Up' and Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch on 'Good Vibrations', although unlike Black Box, both credited Loleatta Holloway.
After the success of the debut single, Black Box followed up with a string of follow-ups, all included in their 1990 album Dreamland.
The Groove Groove Melody team were also behind the production of several other synonyms, one of them being Starlight's 'Numero Uno'.

Black Box - Ride On Time (1989)
UK#1, IRL#1, SWE#2, AUS#2, FR#3, DE#5, CH#5, NOR#5, AT#8, US#39



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'Marky' Mark Wahlberg

There was Donnie (of New Kids On The Block fame) and then there is his brother Mark Wahlberg, youngest of nine siblings from Dorchester, suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, a.k.a. Marky Mark.

Apart from being an (ex-)Rapper, Mark is also Actor, as well as TV and Film Producer. He was known as Marky Mark in his earlier years, and became famous for his 1991 debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He was named #1 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90's.
Mark's family is of Irish, English, Swedish and French Canadian ancestry and had a Roman Catholic upbringing.

At age of thirteen, he, along with his brother Donnie, had been one of New Kids On The Block's original members, but, uninterested in the group's bubblegum pop and squeaky-clean image, he soon quit. It was his departure that eventually allowed Joe McIntyre to take his place as the fifth member of the group. Mark began recording as Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch, earning a hit with 'Good Vibrations', produced by Donnie.
He later collaborated with the Prince Ital Joe on the album Life in the Streets. The project combined Rap and Ragga vocals with strong Eurodance music (as in the singles Happy People and United, courtesy of Frank Peterson and Alex Christensen as producers.
Mark is known for his impressive physique. He first displayed it in the Good Vibrations music video and most prominently in a series of underwear ads for Calvin Klein shot by Herb Ritts, following it with Calvin Klein TV ads, which would sometimes feature Mark exclusively or accompanied by model Kate Moss. Annie Leibovitz also shot a famous session of Mark Wahlberg in underwear for Vanity Fair's annual Hall of Fame issue.

Mark then began an acting career, making his debut in the 1993 TV movie The Substitute. His big screen debut came the next year, with the Danny DeVito feature Renaissance Man. A basketball fanatic, he caught the attention of critics after appearing in The Basketball Diaries in 1995, playing the role of Mickey alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, in a film adaptation of the Jim Carroll book of the same name. He also starred in the 1996 James Foley thriller Fear.
He has earned many positive reviews after successful movies like Boogie Nights as Dirk Diggler, Three Kings, The Perfect Storm, The Italian Job, and Four Brothers. Mark was originally cast as Linus Caldwell in Ocean's Eleven; Matt Damon played the role instead. The two later worked together in The Departed. While he was also considered for a role in the film Brokeback Mountain and it being originally intended to star him and Joaquin Phoenix, he was uncomfortable with the film's sex scenes and his role ultimately went to Jake Gyllenhaal.

Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
US#1, SWE#1, CH#1, NOR#2, DE#3, AUS#4, NZ#8, NL#10, UK#14, AT#15, IRL#16, FR#35



Marky Mark feat. Prince Ital Joe - United
DE#4



Marky Mark feat. Prince Ital Joe - Happy People
DE#1