Weekend Special

The 1983 album didn’t only launch Brenda Fassie’s career — she would later have an incredible comeback with the enormous smash hit “Vulindlela” — it ushered a new era in South African music. The R&B infused title track, which purposefully lifts its bassline from BB&Q Band’s “All Night Long” chord structure from Sharon Redd’s “Never Give You Up”, is widely considered to be the first ever bubblegum hit, initiating a decades long reign for the disco infused, synth led bubblegum sound.