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I Wanna Have Some Fun

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The albums before this were slight flirtation of pop dance fun, but this album brings it all home. Samantha brings her talents to the table big time on this album which is just more than straightforward dance excess. It's full of new kinds of music that will move you in some way. It's a dance movement rather than just some record.

Sam's biggest hits come Full Force and courtesy of the group as well with the femme fatales call to party in "I Wanna Have Some Fun". I think maybe the single edit works better because a back ground singer saying those few lines just makes the song drag. Still it's a pretty cool song with R&B pop hooks. Samantha also makes some heat on the super sexy "Next To Me" with Full Force working as a background group. It's energy in R&B form as she sings "touch me baby" and Full Force echoing "I Need To Feel Your Body". It's not "Touch Me" but a new dance groove. The innocent but naughty fun pop of songs like "Love House" and "Your House or My House" brings American house and British pop together. Even more cutesy dance tunes can be found like on Stock, Atiken and Waterman soundalikes such as the blissful "Walking On Air" and "Ready For This Love". The SAW team actually work their magic on two tracks. Most notably a very peppy "I Only Want To Be With You". Three of the most experimental tracks are really the best. The pure rock and roll excess on this strictly pop album of "Hot For You" is a nice touch. Sounds like something that would have made "Touch Me" a better debut. The co-written "Confession" is an out of mind dance record with experimental beats that just can't be classified as dance pop. It's got an electronic edge and the lyrics are very sharp. It's the smartest song on the album. Thank you, Sam. The ender is the tradition two albums strong of Samantha. A big powerful ballad that her little voice manages to lift up. In this case it's the near ethereal meets eighties hook sound of "Out Of Our Hands". You'd be surprised how effectively she sings her.

Another great Samantha Fox album. She really diversified herself into many areas on this 12 tracker that her shorter albums just couldn't reach. You always felt there was some lacking, but not her. Listen to it and fall in love with Sam and her eighties dance grooves.

This is one of Sam's best albums and probably will be the one that people remember her by. It starts off with the song that almost everyone knows "I Wanna Have Some Fun." Next is "Love House" one of my favorite Sammy songs. "Your House Or My House" is sure to get your party going and "Ready For This Love" is perky pop of the best kind. "Next To Me" is a laid back ditty that sounds good anyway you listen to it. Sam's remake "I Only Wanna Be With You" has become a classic for her (I still hear it on the radio 11 years later!), and the rest of the CD is just as good. This album really surprised a lot of people who didn't believe in Sam, but this album helped prove them wrong.

With a successful formula on her second album, I wonder if Samantha Fox theorized that the more producers the better, a strategy that works to some extent for Jennifer Rush. In addition to the Steve Power/Steve Lovell team and that of Stock-Aitken-Waterman, I Wanna Have Some Fun boasts two songs each done by Rob and Ferdi Bolland and Fred Zarr, with others doing one song only, and yes, their distinctive styles emerge. 80's dance pop definitely predominates here, but there are a few surprises here as well.

The title track might as well be called "Naughty Girls Still Need Love." "Hello it's me again/don't you know it's hard to keep a good woman down/but then again, maybe that could be fun." After a giggle, the song begins in earnest with a funky bass backbeat and harmonies by the Full Force boys and some monologue rap in the middle.

"Are you ready to do things tonight that you never dreamed were possible? Follow me." With that spoken intro, we get "Love House", a more danceable single, which has harmony vocals, a cacophony of rap-scratched words, strange voices, special effects, and ominous vocals of the guide of the house. I initially thought this was produced by Full Force, because of the heavy bass beat but it's a Bollands production. I really enjoyed my visit to this house, all right.

Samantha must have really fallen in love with drum machines and bass beats, as "Your House Or My House" mixes those and sundry keyboards, computerized voices, and a strong backing chorus and monologue by Sam. Pure dance pop, call it Stock-Aitken-Waterman vanilla with some chocolate mousse and sprinkles.

The Full Force-produced "Next To Me" is similar to but injects a trice more fizzy pop to Full Force's 80's R&B formula.

Fred Zarr produced "Ready For This Love," a spright thumping drum machines and funky synths that resembles something Kim Wilde might have done on her Close album, also released in 1988.

Power and Lovell were responsible for the haunting "True Devotion" on her eponymous album. They do another one, "Confession", which explores sin in a religious aspect, only this time, a heavy bass synth beat, drum track, quick bursts of string synths, and satanically deep voice saying things like "Je t'accuse." The rhythm reminds me somewhat of Mick Jagger's "Just Another Night."

Then comes the two typical S-A-W bubblegum songs, the first one, a single, being a cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Only Wanna Be With You." It's only fair to give Foxy a 60's song after Kylie did "The Locomotion," right? "You Started Something" is of a slightly slower tempo, though the sound is unmistakable. On both these songs, Foxy blows the S-A-W bubblegum without it messily sticking on her face like those who don't chew Hubba Bubba gum-remember those commercials?

If S-A-W was upbeat, then what does one call "One In A Million"? S-A-W songs on steroids? The Bollands produced this song, with a rapid fire chorus and a sound Bananarama would've peeled their skins for, there's even a fierce guitar solo midsong. A must have on any disco mix tape.

"Walking On Air", produced by Fred Zarr, is more Kim Wilde, Close-era pop and reduced the BPM compared to the previous barnburner.

The next song, "Hot For You" boasts synths but also a guitar that's alternatively wails and grinds like light metal. Is she trying to do Pat Benatar or Vixen, I ask, complimenting the laudable guitar solo that could fit in 80's pop-metal? Nothing wrong with the song.

"Out Of Our Hands" is another atmospheric Power and Lovell ballad, sporting piano, bombastic power synths, and haunting vocals by Sam.

The variety of sounds, be it Full Force-style R&B/pop, bubblegum synth pop, or the attempt at pop-metal, makes I Wanna Have Some Fun a masterpiece for Foxy. And just think, when I first got this, I was thrown by what I perceived to be an incoherent mess.

When Samantha Fox released this album in the late 80's, she reached the peak of her popularity. It spawned three succesful singles (the title track, "I Only Wanna Be With You" and "Love House"), and heralded her first-ever world tour.

What surprises the most with this album is how good it still sounds today. The big variety of producers makes it for quality listening, and it's an album that doesn't stall on the same sound twice. Most people were turned off by the fact that Samantha was a former porn star, and that she didn't have the most powerful voice in the world, but hey, she could still carry a pop tune and make you feel what it's about.

There were many, many great moments on this album. Of course, the three singles were fantastic ("Love House" was even totally ripped by Madonna on her classic "Vogue" single - same beat, same funky piano solo near the end), but I always wondered why there weren't more singles from the album. "Ready For This Love" in particular is a magnificent pop song, highly danceable and almost euphorical; if this one doesn't put you in a good mood, then chances are you're already dead. "One In A Million" was also a very catchy dance song, very energetic; and "Hot For You" was arguably one of the album's best songs, adding a surprising rock and roll touch to an album that was mostly dance and pop. It was a nice reminder that Samantha had initially opted for a rock and roll orientation for her career. "Confession" is also a standout, with its ambiant mood and dark edge. And the closer, the beautiful rock ballad "Out Of Our Hands", proved that she had the versatility to do a great job on ballads.

There are only a couple of duds on this album : the boring "Next To Me", which proved that Full Force had little creativity as producers and could only rely on two hooks; and "Walking On Air", too generic and repetitive for its own good.

After this album, Samantha said in interviews that she would go in the direction set by songs like "Hot For You" and "Out Of Our Hands", meaning more rock records. Unfortunately, her record company wanted to milk the dance formula to death and they hired Full Force once again to work on Sam's follow-up, the boring and half-baked "Just One Night". Thus ended the career of Samantha, proving that an artist should be the one to have creative control, and not the record company. Still, "I Wanna Have Some Fun" lived up to its title - and still does 15 years after its release.

This is a good album by Samantha Fox. It features the hits "I Wanna Have Some Fun" and "I Only want To Be With You". Unfortunatley after this album her career faded into oblivion and I have no idea where she went. I don't think people gave her a fair chance and once the nineties came she disappeared. I hope she returns to the pop scene soon.

Samantha Fox's third album is chockful of potential hit singles. The production team of Full Force (Backstreet Boys, N Sync) provide her with pulsating urban dance beats which she uses to full effect on songs like "Love House", "I wanna Have some fun" and "Your House or my House". The Stock Aitken Waterman-produced tracks "I only wanna be with you" and "You started something" are superb too. One of the most consistent dance records of the late 80s.

This album is another work of art by Samantha. The best dance songs are Love House and the title song I Wanna Have Some Fun. Confession, which she co-wrote, should have been a single. Her remake of I Only Wanna Be With You is better than the original.

Her Third Gold Album ,A Dance Album,No Bad Songs On Album,Its A Favorite Of Mine

The 3rd album by the super-sexy but not overly suggestive Samantha Fox (born 4-15-66) has many fine moments as well as her most commercially successful song "I Wanna Have Some Fun" (the only one to hit the Top 40 in R&B as well as pop). Other highlights include the non-hit "Next To Me" and the Dusty Springfield cover "I Only Wanna Be With You." Not as strong as her self-titled 1987 album, mainly due to the lack of anything as hauntingly mesmerizing as "True Devotion," but still several steps above her stale efforts of the 90s.

Some people might see some difficulties with the mix of all kind of styles on this album, but personally I don't mind because I think it works: you find producers like Stock Aitken Waterman, Full Force and others here. So you have pop-tracks like "Hot for you" and "Walk on air" plus R&B tracks like "I wanna have some fun". You can see that Sam did this album when she was still enjoying fame, because it's an album full of good songs - like she picked all the goodies for herself from the producers. Well done