Daily Music—A Neverending Dream
Jun 30th, 2008 by Butter
Today’s musical piece will be a bit briefer. Here’s German Europop band X-Perience with “A Neverending Dream”:
Released in 1996, when the band was a year old, it reached number four in Germany and remains the band’s most successful hit. That’s probably because it’s damn near the perfect pop dance song. It has a catchy and happy, but not ingratiating, melody, and its lyrics are angsty and emotional, but not melodramatically so. It’s the Goldilocks of dance tunes, I guess. But what’s most remarkable is lead singer Claudia Uhle’s mesmerizing voice. She exhibits such control, and her tone quality is so gentle. She’s also stunningly beautiful.
Cascada, another German pop act, covered “A Neverending Dream” in 2006, but Natalie Horler’s voice—which I love otherwise—just doesn’t have the light touch that makes the original so graceful.
As to the video, I will point out that the (fake) blond, Claudia’s brother Matthias, is fairly hot, and that it has swans.
Claudia Uhle reminds me a little bit of Evanescence — the music is definitely more pop-ish, but they both have that particular ethereal quality.