Show Me Love!

December 13, 2023 3:53 PM

Robin Stone was a singer from childhood, from morning to night. But her background in R&B wasn't particularly aligned with the style of early single Show Me Love, full of New Jack Swing flavors and synths and even a saxophone, typical to 1990 production. But this song was revived in 1993 when a Swedish production duo laid her vocal on top of a new track in a new style: Robin S - Show Me Love. It was a huge global hit! Here's Robin S. telling the story of Show Me Love [14m, DJ Mag], full of her own wisdom gained across the decades,which has an unexpected coda. When Beyoncé released Renaissance and her song Break My Soul, Robin S. found herself once again a focus of world attention.

Robin S. Show Me Love Wikipedia
Beyoncé Break My Soul Wikipedia

Not to be confused with:
Robyn Show Me Love
Robin Shultz Show Me Love

posted by hippybear (9 comments total)

(Or with More Rockers and Marilyn McFarlane's Show Love.)
posted by snuffleupagus at 4:26 PM on December 13, 2023

Oh my--I never knew there was an original version of the song--I don't know how many millions of times I must have heard the 1993 version!
posted by mittens at 5:57 PM on December 13, 2023 [2 favorites]

I spent years being confused between the Robin S. song and the Robyn song. I think I downloaded a mis-labeled mp3 from napster.
posted by allegedly at 6:36 PM on December 13, 2023 [3 favorites]

The Robyn track sounds tremendous at the end of Lucas Moodysson's Fucking Åmål aka Show Me Love
posted by porn in the woods at 7:00 PM on December 13, 2023 [1 favorite]

The 1993 version of Show Me Love is one of the best house music songs of all time, full stop, bar none. When I was still actively DJing and working a mixed (e.g., not house heads already off their gourds) party, that song was the litmus test - if they didn't dance to Show Me Love then my job was basically already over, they weren't going to dance to anything.
posted by 1adam12 at 7:39 PM on December 13, 2023 [10 favorites]

Am I the only one who doesn't hear the sample in Break My Soul? At best I hear the same synth preset but they're not playing the same line at all.

> The 1993 version of Show Me Love is one of the best house music songs of all time, full stop, bar none.

Could not agree more.
posted by STFUDonnie at 4:27 AM on December 14, 2023 [1 favorite]

When house music is this good, not much contemporary EDM can match it.
posted by DJZouke at 12:16 PM on December 14, 2023 [1 favorite]

I don’t think I had ever heard the 1990 version before. It’s not bad, though definitely not one of the best house songs of all time like the later version.
posted by snofoam at 1:28 PM on December 14, 2023

Part of what feels unusual about this to me is that it is such a recent song that got repurposed into house style. I feel like a lot of house stuff drew vocals from disco music much older, from the actual disco era, but this was a song from just a few years before.

Am I wrong about feeling this is unusual?
posted by hippybear at 3:37 PM on December 14, 2023