The Saturdays and Vince Clarke Save Music

The date is November 29th, 2008. It's a Saturday (COINCIDENCE??? I THINK NOT) and we were going about our normal weekend schedule--making a hearty breakfast, idly channel surfing, perhaps daydreaming a little about Daniel Craig and how we haven't seen Quantum of Solace yet, and of course reading a week's worth of posts on our favorite pop blog, Popjustice.com. It's when stumbling upon a post about The Saturdays, a rather, to be frank, hit-or-miss girl group currently making a name for themselves across the pond. We were about to scroll down the page in with our usual sigh of "OH WELL, NOTHING TO REPORT AROUND HERE" when suddenly, a name caught our eye. A glorious name: VINCE CLARKE. I.E., Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode/Yaz/Erasure fame.

UM, HOLY SHIT.

Turns out Vince decided to do the world a favor and remix "Issues" The Saturdays' (quite terrible) obligatory third single ballad. It wouldn't be quite as bad if they had somehow worked "Oh Jack, I wish I could quit you" into the chorus (you'll see). That would have been pretty rad, but instead it's just kind of boring and goes on for a bit. Anyway, Vince makes it all better, so here's that.

The Saturdays - Issues (Vince Clarke Radio Edit)

Amazing.

And here's the original if you're interested.