MIRACLE - CASCADA
While “Everytime We Touch” is a fun, knee-bobbing sing-along anthem, it sounds like hundreds of high-energy songs that have preceded it. And yet, after years of shunning the genre, pop radio was primed for a non-hip-hop rhythmic track and propelled Cascada into the Billboard Hot 100’s top 10. But as label Robbins is well aware — via its 2005 smash with D.H.T.’s “Listen to Your Heart,” whose successor was DOA on radio — such songs seldom engender artist development (how many are even aware that Cascada is a German trio, not a solo act?). So the potential for follow-up “Miracle” is shady, especially considering that the track is cut from precisely the same melodic cloth as “Touch.” A new U.S. mix attempts to differentiate it ever so slightly, but there’s no denying that this is more redux than new. Seven mixes might give the song some retail muscle, and dance radio should indulge, but Cascada already sounds like a one-hit wonder.–Bilboard
