Weekend Special
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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 in 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” and its 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.