![]() ![]() Three chorus girls, rapper Rob Birch and various samples decorate the landscape, but it is the sucks of the "two rhythm groups" that lock "Connected" into the memory and body of the defenseless listener." Andrew Smith from Melody Maker complimented its "forbidding funk", "which marries a lazy, Mondays-style swagger with Curtis Mayfield-like melancholy". A great sound sampled from half a beat KC and the Sunshine Band pulls back, while Owen If whips the drums forward. Per Reinholdt Nielsen from Danish Gaffa praised the song as "a clever lesson in funk. In its current form, "Connected" is a sturdy precursor to an evening or a fine way to wind down into daylight." In January 1993, Flick remarked that this "mid-tempo retro-funk affair" has been making inroads with urban-minded DJs for several weeks now. A shuffling groove supports cool horns and a contagious chorus that is phattened by nifty femme vocal chants. Larry Flick from Billboard described the song as "an instantly insinuating hiphop/ funk workout. In Australia and News Zealand, the song peaked at number 24 and 47, respectively. It also charted on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart (26), the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart (4), the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 chart (38), and the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream chart (11). In the US, "Connected" reached number 15 on the Cash Box Top 100, while peaking at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside Europe, the song made it to number seven on the Canadian RPM Dance/Urban chart, while peaking at number 32 on the RPM Top Singles chart and number seven on the RPM Adult Contemporary chart. On the European Dance Radio Chart, it was even more successful, peaking at number four ten months later. Additionally, "Connected" peaked within the top 30 in France (27), and the top 60 in the Netherlands (54), while on the Eurochart Hot 100, it was a top 40 hit, reaching number 36 in January 1993. It stayed at that position for two weeks. In the latter, the single peaked at number 18 in its second week at the UK Singles Chart on 27 September 1992. In Europe, it entered the top 10 in Austria (5), Sweden (8) and Switzerland (6), and the top 20 in Belgium (19), Finland (14) and the United Kingdom. "Connected" was a major hit on the charts in several countries, and is the group's most successful song. The way every race is trying to separate from each other." Chart performance It's about the way everyone tries to categorize everything. ![]() Group member Nick Hallam told Billboard about the song's lyrics, "The song "Connected" is about human beings and the lack of connection there is between anything today. QC and Post Production Duplicates by Marty Munsch (CPI). The song uses a bassline sampled from Jimmy "Bo" Horne's song "Let Me (Let Me Be Your Lover)". The song later appeared in the 1995 movie Hackers, and it was the theme to the Rob Lowe programme Dr. NME and Melody Maker ranked "Connected" number 16 and 19 in their list of "Singles of the Year" in December 1992. Its music video was directed by Matthew Amos. Internationally, "Connected" peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Austria, Sweden and Switzerland, and entered the top 20 of the charts in Belgium, Finland and the United States. The song samples "Let Me (Let Me Be Your Lover)" by Jimmy "Bo" Horne and peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart. It is the title track of their third studio album, and was released in September 1992 as the album's lead single. " Connected" is a song by British hip hop/ electronic music group Stereo MC's. ![]()
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