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Each of thos With the second US single from the album, "Because the Night," slated for release next month, Cascada hopes that Perfect Day will continue to brand a trademark sound of crossover club sound. "I don't think there's a major difference from the first album," says Horler. "We've definitely evolved a little bit, and going into a more pop direction. But this is still dance music… we've evolved, but the winds aren't going to change completely." "When 'Everytime we Touch,' became huge… God, we never knew it was going to happen," reflects Horler on the success that's come. "I couldn't believe it, especially that we would break America and become successful. We're a small little group from Europe! Who'd have thought we'd get as far as we did." "I take each day as it comes," she says. "I wait and see, hoping for a nice surprise and no disappointments." That attitude has helped Horler overcome another misappropriated label in the dance music business: not the T-word (techno), not the C-word (Cascada), but the D-word. Diva. "My friends, and people who know me very well know that I am not a diva at all," she says. "In fact, I'm more of a tomboy type. I'm not a typical girly girl at all. I'm into cars and that sort of thing. I can hold my own drink." "I'm not a typical girl," she adds. That much, it seems, goes without saying.
Billboard Hot 100: #106 Billboard Dance/Club Play: #8 Cascada's first single introduced the thumping, driving sound that would become signature to future releases. Appropriately enough, it bubbled under to the US pop charts; but most exciting for the team, it became a Top 10 club hit. Not bad for an out-of-the-box attempt.
Billboard Hot 100: #10 Billboard Dance/Club Play: #1 Cascada's biggest single to date. It became a summer time anthem in the US in 2005, one of the biggest Euro-crossovers in years. The music video further helped solidify Cascada as a dance act with extraordinary stateside appeal. The track garnered some criticism, though, from devout dance music fans who questioned whether the production – and the trademark Cascada beat - was an appropriate representation of dance music's knack for nuance and complexity.
Billboard Dance/Club Play #14 A remake of the Savage Garden ballad of the same name, this single continued Cascada's club streak in the US.
Billboard Hot 100: #52 Billboard Dance/Club Play: #1 Another #1 dance smash for Cascada, and another remake that seemed to match the popularity of its source material. Few acts have successfully transformed country music into stomping dance material, but Cascada sealed the deal with this hit.
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e songs was a full-on Eurodance assault on American ears, hiding a hooky, sing-along chorus under a frantic, incessant beat that sounded like a raucous soccer (sorry, football) game on Ritalin.
