Buzz

This album opens with a cover of the Goddess Kylie's 'Better The Devil You Know'. It's pretty much a photo-copy of the original, except for the extra oomph you can now get 'cos the machines have come on some since SAW days. Steps are assuming that their audience won't be familiar with the song. And they're probably right.

The second track on this third offering from Steps, 'Stomp', is described on the sleevenotes as a "tribute" to Chic's Bernard Edwards and Nile Rogers. It actually is a styleless pastiche of 'Everybody Dance'. Now, if the kids who are going to hear this 'version' first ever hear the original they'll think it 'sounds like Steps' and they won't think Chic are better because the baby-teeth of their musical reasoning have been rotted by this penny-candy-pop.

There are original creations here, including collaborations involving Lee and H, both unburdened by any mitigating factors whatever; they're not even bad enough to be funny.

Remember when the human race fell in love with the combustion engine 'cos it was convenient and easy and then it turns out we've probably irreparably fucked the entire planet? This is the musical equivalent.

For God's sake, think of the children.