“Champions were crazy about sweet and sour things, they called it,” StoneBridge, now 60, recalled on the phone from his studio in Stockholm. He dialed the Korg M1 synthesizer to the next preset, landed on Organ 2 and played the baseline. It was an elastic, sweet part. The sourness is the squeaky sound of opening a song that is a product of his DX100 Yamaha synth, and he played in red to distort it. He did it all, and dusted Robin S.’s vocals a bit late. The result was minimal, like Chicago’s early house music, but sparkled with a novel sound. Stonebridge wasn’t sure about his formula, but the deadline forced him to submit it.
When Robin S. heard it, it blew her away, she said in an interview last week. Finally her song was completed.
While she was suffering from the flu, she was recording her vocals a few years ago on a single take (not counting ad libs), she recalled by phone from her home in Atlanta. She wasn’t impressed with the song at first. And with the revision of Stone Bridge a few years later, her popularity has exploded worldwide. “Show Me Love” wasn’t the first house song to feature the M1 Organ 2 sound, but it was a hit more than any previous song.
Last week, Robin S. received a phone call from his son informing him that he was trending on social media as a result of a reference to Beyonce’s song “Show Me Love.” This is a duplicate (with a different rhythm) of the sound of M1 Organ 2. ). Neither she nor Stone Bridge knew what was coming, she said. StoneBridge discovered her connection while searching for her name on her Twitter.
“I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry,” said Robin S., 60. “She chose mine from all the songs she could access, from all the songs her team could access.” The singer said that a dance artist like her would work hard on them. Despite this, she said she was particularly impressed because she felt “I couldn’t get their props.”