Kanye West's remix of R&B songstress Cassie's "King of Hearts" went around a while back, and now here's Richard X's take, which finds the UK producer throwing a thousand pounds of gorgeous-sounding glitter over the proceedings (see also: his work on Saint Etienne's excellent recent single "Tonight").
Kanye West's remix of R&B songstress Cassie's "King of Hearts" went around a while back, and now here's Richard X's take, which finds the UK producer throwing a thousand pounds of gorgeous-sounding glitter over the proceedings (see also: his work on Saint Etienne's excellent recent single "Tonight").
Cassies isnt a story of unrealized potential so much as its about sadistically bottling anticipation and never allowing a release. You cant follow her career so much as close your eyes and hope when you open them she wont be gone forever. When songs like this one leak out, or like when Official Girl came out five years ago or Deadboys remixes from 2010, its hard not to get overexcited, hard to hear straight. But this feels real: British producer Richard X, formerly Girls on Top and a collaborator with Annie and M.I.A., just remixed his way into the Cassie hall of fame, refashioning a delicate and detached frame for King of Hearts thats more dance than R&B, exactly where she was meant to be all along.