Songoftheday 11/28/23 - I don't wanna say I'm sorry, 'cause I know there's nothing wrong...

 

 

"Something" - Lasgo

from the album Some Things (2002)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #35 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 1

 

Today's song comes from the dance music group Lasgo, who came together in Belgium at the end of the 1990s. The original incarnation of the group had singer Evi Goffin backed by producer/musicians/remixers Peter Luts, David Vervoort. The group released their debut single "Something" in continental Europe in the summer of 2001. Written by Luts and Vervoort and produced by the latter, the song is a throwback to the Eurodance heyday of the last decade, with club-thumping beats and pulsing synth production anchoring a English-as-a-second-language plotline of a struggling relationship. There's much repetition of the "hold me in your arms" and "I Don't wanna say I'm Sorry" with obviously no context - it's all about the groove here, though Goffin puts in a respectable performance bringing the drama. With a music video that is so abstractly European, and the trio scored an international hit that eventually found its way to American shores on the dance oriented Robbins Records label...

 

 "Something" became Lasgo's first and only top-40 hit on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 in February of 2003. On the radio, the song peaked at #21 on the Mainstream Top-40 airplay chart, and #34 on the dance/R&B-oriented Rhythmic format. Despite its popularity as a dance pop track, "Something" only made it to #29 on Billboard's Dance Club Play list, as Eurodance was way behind that current scene. Internationally, where the song had made it a year before, the single reached the top ten in the United Kingdom (#4), Belgium (#5 Flanders), Romania (#6), Denmark (#7),the Netherlands (#7), Germany (#8), and Austria (#9), and also made the top-40 in Spain (#14), Ireland (#18), and Australia (#19). The Some Things album, released in October of 2002 in America, missed the Billboard 200, but rose to #10 on the Dance/Electronics Albums chart. 

The second single from Some Things was "Alone", which sported the same equation of forlorn lyrics sung to a percolating Eurodance beat. The song climbed to #2 on the new Dance Airplay chart in Billboard, and stopped at #83 on the Hot 100. Overseas, it was a top ten success in their Belgian home (#3 Flanders) as well as the UK (#7). That was followed by "Pray", an even more frenetically-paced dance track. It landed a third British top-40 hit at #17, while just missing the top ten in the Flanders side of Belgium at #11. 

Lasgo returned in 2004 with the lead single from their sophomore effort Far Away, "Surrender", which spent three weeks at #1 on Billboard's Dance Airplay radio chart. It also brought them back to the top ten in Flanders-Belgium at #6, and the top-20 in Britain at #17. 

By the time of the act's third and most recent studio album Smile in 2008, Vervoort and Goffin were replaced by Luts with producer Jef Martens and singer Jelle Van Dael. Nevertheless, the set was their highest-charting album in Belgium at #8, while the single "Out Of My Mind" made the top ten on the American Dance Airplay chart at #7. A following single, "Gone", hit #15 on the dance airplay list. Meanwhile, Luts had already started his own solo career under the studio creation Dominico, releasing the single "What A Feeling" that topped the dance airplay chart that same year. 

 

Since then, they released a string of singles with moderate success in their home country, before stopping in 2013. 

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Here's the group performing the song on stage....

Up tomorrow: A neo-soul singer/actor questions your manners.