"I mean, it was about a girl getting ready to go out on a Saturday Night. The song also captured perfectly that teenage anticipation of a big night out, as demonstrated by Whigfield dancing in a towel and plaiting her hair in the video. "I think, especially right now, people need that… I don't know, we just have to get through this and I think music is an amazing therapy for mental health." And I'm all about silliness and not taking myself so seriously.
"It's the classic, you cannot not play it at a wedding, because it's just one of those few moments where people can get together and be silly. "It's one of those songs that you either really hate it or you really love it, and it's like nursery rhymes, it's easy to sing along to. "It made me really happy."Ĭarlson says she thinks the song has had a lasting legacy because of its simplicity. "I've seen a lot of these videos throughout the years, but I just think this is so funny because everybody was safely distanced, you know, and they had their little marks where they were supposed to stand, which I thought was hilarious," she says. Speaking to Sky News from her home outside Milan, Italy, Sannie Carlson, the woman better known as Whigfield, says she has seen many renditions of Saturday Night in the 27 years since its release, but none quite like the dancing in Dublin. “ But it seems songs from the 1990s, that decade of hope and optimism, are also providing the uplift that people need as enforced isolation nears the end of week six. In fact, back in May, Whigfield (Sannie Carlson) spoke with Sky News about the endurance of Saturday Night and why it is perfect for now: I think it is brave to have a song that good at the very end of an album, and it seems like a natural opener - but I guess we work up to the song and go out with a smile! I think, as we are still separated and not back to normal, songs like Saturday Night are perfect to lift the mood. Other great songs like Another Day, Big Time, and Close to You can be heard on the Whigfield album, and Saturday Night was the epic closer. Perhaps it does not have the same weight and nuance of some classic Pop from the time, but there is a simplicity and positivity that has meant Saturday Night, without irony, has been taken to heart and celebrated. It is one of those songs that was everywhere when I started high school in 1994! Saturday Night sold by the bucket-load, and it was played at every disco and party that I can recall from that time. In 1994, Saturday Night was included on Whigfield’s eponymous debut album. The song was written by Italian producers Larry Pignagnoli and Davide Riva.
There is something pleasingly carefree and delightful about Whigfield’s Saturday Night and, whilst some consider it to be a guilty pleasure, I would argue that it is one of the best singles of the 1990s – and there are many reasons to love the song! For a start, it is infectious and catchy as hell! It also dethroned Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around in 1994 after that song stayed at the top of the charts for fifteen weeks here in 1994! Saturday Night was released in 1992 in Italy, and in 1993 through Spain. As there is that mix of classic hits and iconic tracks combined with the one-hit wonders and songs that some would consider quite cheesy or a guilty pleasure.
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