It feels like it’s been ages since my last entry in the Beyond the Wonder series, which covered Bertie “Key Largo” Higgins’ debut LP. In fact, I had a piece for Right Said Fred’s 1992 debut album — Up — in draft status but kept putting it off forever. Dance pop isn’t really my thing so I didn’t want to judge the record too prematurely. I’m glad I waited, as it turns out it was better than I thought on first listen.

Well, parts of it were anyway. It seems that Up is a strange hybrid of canned, forgettable dance pop (minus the immortal “I’m Too Sexy” of course) and surprisingly decent mainstream pop. But you can read all about that on Popdose now. In the meantime, let’s get sexy!

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