Jossette ~ Rockell? - the battle - "in a dream"
"In a dream" (funhouse show mix) by Jossette was my favorite song back in 1997. I remember the first time I heard it I just could not believe it. It was too much. Then I kept calloing the radio station trying to figure out what it was and they couldn't even give me a right name. Finally I go to the store and see a Rockell single, and bought it just because it was Rockell. I listen to it and to my surprise it was the song I wanted!...but............ NOT the version I wanted. So I just gave up because back in those days I didn't know much better, I thought I just had to accept the single with whatever versions it had. THEN..........ONE DAY...............I walked into a store and saw a single for Jossette "where are you now". Even though I was kind of dumb as a dj back then, I still was able to SENSE it when I saw something that COULD be freestyle, I don't know how, but from years of doing it, somehow I learned to know what things to look for that would indicate that it might be dance or freestyle. Then when I picked it up and saw "where are you now" (freestyle mix), I knew I was right on. So I just purchased it for the hell of it, because I knew it was freestyle (and in my years of having to guess and play by trial and error, I've only been off, or misjudged a c.d., maybe about 15% of the time, where it turned out to be all house, trance, or euro, and I think once it was totally off, like some pop or rock........but MOST of the time I knew what would be freestyle or booty bass...). I listened to it and BAM!!!!!!!!!!! To my surprise, it sounded VERY SIMILAR to "in a dream". To keep a long story short, I just put 2 and 2 together and figured it out, and I got what I wanted. Those where the days! "I can see" by S.F. Spanish Fly, "can't get you out of my mind" Lil Suzy, "La Bamba" Johnny Z., "a little bit of ecstacy" Jocelyn Enriquez, and for those of you who know me, i must add "SUMMERTIME SUMMERTIME" by CORINA..........It was too much, those days were just too much, but now it's all over now. Things have all changed up now, and it just isn't the same anymore. But back in those days, I remember how picky I was and how quick I was to reject things that didn't have a certain sound. But now, it's kind of funny because suddenly I am REALLY liking A LOT more things, even more of the things I just kept in my c.d. case or cassette case, or even gave away! I even had to BUY BACK a lot of the things I got rid of just because in those days I didn't want anything that got "old". I used to not even like albums, just various artists, now I am so open that.......... I don't even know how to describe it. I just find a lot of albums and singles I had for a long time beginning to grow INTENSELY on me now, and I don't know why. I think Jossette was the best because it brought back the MEMORIES...........memories.........sorry, just thinking about Jacqui Cenci and Lil Suzy just a li'l bit....... but, that was the song. However, I must say that Rockell's beat was more "crisp", and Rockell had a more radio friendly sound, the way her song was arranged turned out actually BETTER, but we humans don't ALWAYS choose what may be better, notice that verb "choose", we don't always CHOOSE what's best, we CHOOSE what we think is best to US, in other words, we choose what we like. BACK THEN, I was only bumpin' Jossette, and even recently, I still CHOOSE to do so, but over all, I now like and appreciate BOTH, and they are BOTH quality made, good songs. So if there were to be a war between Rockell and Jossette, the result would be that we come to the conclusion that it was pointless, because in the end we would find out that they were BOTH good, but they BOTH dropped "weapons of mass destruction" when they dropped their singles. They were powerful, despite the fact that they both "stole" it from someone else....... but so did MON A Q and FRANKIE J....etc.... Rockell may be beautiful, but I've always wanted to go out with Jossette, I don't know why, but she is the only one I though of doing that with since I was younger. I now have all 4 of her songs, well 5, but my friend never gave that extra one back.......but that is ANOTHER story for ANOTHER chatroom.
