A Little Sound Goes a Long Way: she teams up with Sugababes to drop a fresh DnB adaptation of their hit song ‘Overload’
Single Review: ‘Situation’ by A Little Sound and Sugababes
For people who like…drum and bass, electronic, pop.
A Little Sound flaunts her vocals and adaptability in her latest single with Sugababes, helping them to dabble in DnB as they rework their hit song ‘Overload’ for the dance floors.
Drum and bass vocalist A Little Sound has been going from strength to strength over the last couple of years – from winning the Drum&BassArena award for best vocalist in 2022, to now becoming something of a household name in the scene as a singer, writer, DJ and MC. Her climb to notoriety is now pushed even further with a DnB banger collaboration with pop sensations the Sugababes, now approaching half a million streams within the first month from release in August.
Now signed to Ministry of Sound Records, bringing her in to revamp a dated Sugababes hit for the bass filled fields of Boomtown or DnB dancefloors of Ministry makes complete sense – and that’s exactly what’s gone down.
Discovering the single in a clip from the exuberant music video on her IG, the music that accompanies it is equally as lively. Listening to the full track from the beginning, there’s a familiar tone as A Little Sound kicks off with a verse describing the journey to a rave, backed up by clean break beats and atmospheric bass.
The familiar sound is masked somewhat with strong drum and bass vibes from the outset, but then as the chorus arrives you’re left thinking “I have heard those lyrics somewhere before…” and if you’re like me it takes a few squinty views of the video before I ask myself “hold on, is that the Sugababes?”
The answer to this is made clear when they sing the lyrics to their 2000 hit song ‘Overload’. A Little Sound’s verses compliment this impeccably, as the bass line whomps away and the hi-hat flutters like a true DnB anthem.
With all of them coming together in the final choruses I can’t help but think her name A Little Sound is really an antonym for her actual sound…which is BIG. It all comes together so perfectly that it’s almost like ‘Overload’ was made for a drum and bass remix; and what better artist to see it through than the big sounding A Little Sound.
She definitely puts her own imprint on this rework brilliantly; and as we really do love genre bridges being made here at SoundSight Mag, I can confirm this is nothing short of a brilliant example. Go give it a listen below!
