hurt me! hurt me!

though samantha fox broke onto the scene as a cross between lita ford and kylie minogue (that would be early kylie, before she flitted off to japan and reinvented herself and the diva du jour of the ultra-hip queer clique), _just one night_ finds her attempting to expand her audience base into the urban genre. with production and songwriting by full force and c+c music factory, and back-up vocals by full force proteges and powerhouse vocalists cheryl "pepsii" riley and ex-girlfriend, fox does successfully transition from a pop/rock to a pop/r&b vein, but it proves to be too little, too late. with the exception of the lead track, "(hurt me! hurt me!) but the pants stay on", which is a stand-out sheerly because it's such a novelty song, the material on _just one night_ sounds like b-sides from more talented artists of the day, like milli vanilli, new choice, seduction and pebbles.

Hurt Me! Hurt Me!...Yeah, well it hurt my ears anyways.

With this title Samantha falls flat on her face. "Hurt Me! Hurt Me!(But The Pants Stay On)" and the title track "Just One Night" are the only songs worth the effort. The single version of "Another Woman" [available on the 1992 Greatest Hits CD.]greatly surpasses the PWL hip-hop version on the album. Luckly for Samantha her next efforts "Gimmie Shelter" [1993] and "Go For The Heart" [1995] put her back on track, which is greatly shown in her 1998 effort 21st Centuary Fox. For casual fans, skip this one, you'll be doing your ears a favour. For die hard fans, get the single to "Hurt Me! Hurt Me!(But The Pants Stay On)" the disco mix "But The Pants Come Off" is to die for...I guess by the end of the album, she got tired of keeping her pants on...

Not her best

"Hurt me! Hurt me!" was the best tune on the CD, but it wasn't as good as her earlier work. Although in the video she still looked hotter than the lid of a pot-bellied stove. I heard for the title track she had to sing completely in the nude to get just the right 'atmosphere'. She apparantly sang it to Paul Stanley of KISS because Paul had written a song about her called 'Heart of Stone' which appeared on the KISS album 'Revenge'.

I think Miss Fox was scraping the bottom of the barrel for material on this album. She didn't do much writing anyway, but the Full Force gang had ridden it's course by 1991. She sould have found herself some new writers and got away from the third rate B-sides she was trying to push.