Tina Turner - When the Heartache is Over (1999)

[straightorbroken]

All because I just seen this for the very first time (bit of a strange choice of thumbnail).



Music video:



Written by Graham Stack (On A Night Like This) and John Reid (Nightcrawlers, ex Mr Märy Käni), and produced by Metro (Cher, Gina G, Dannii, everyone).

UK #10. Her 8th and final top 10 solo single.

 

[Iguana]

It's marvellous. And yes I really remember how it went top 10!

 

[Joseph]

I thought we had this already BUT always happy to give it a 10

I’ve probably mentioned it before but this is my absolute fave Tina song.

The mixes are also a dance floor joy for me

 

[aquaplex]

I loved her jamming with the backing dancers on TOTP who were half her age and probs thinking about their next gig as if they were lifelong friends on a girly night out

 

[straightorbroken]

I thought we had this already BUT always happy to give it a 10

I’ve probably mentioned it before but this is my absolute fave Tina song.

The mixes are also a dance floor joy for me

So did I (I'm loathe to start new threads )

But I did search and there was no "show ignored content" either so there's absolutely zero shade if I've missed the original and more than happy to have this merged and/or deleted.

 

[funky]

Weird to think she only had 8 Top 10s, but that number does expand massively when you look at Top 40 hits. The UK absolutely loved her. Sorry LOVES her.

This was another offshoot of the late 90s influx of pop songs derived from the “Missing” (Todd Terry remix)” sound - I think Diana Ross had a single out at the same time that sounded exactly the same and Enrique made a career for himself out of it that same year. It all kind of peaked in 1999.

I like that Tina still manages to own it despite the overdone sound. Great song. And the live pop rock version is great too.

 

[funky]

Metro that was it. I suppose Cher's "Believe" was the more immediate influence, and probably why the sound was even bigger in 1999.

 

[straightorbroken]

Metro that was it. I suppose Cher's "Believe" was the more immediate influence, and probably why the sound was even bigger in 1999.

You're not wrong though about Todd Terry. I'd never considered it before, but it adds up when you factor that Todd Terry was recruited for the Believe album on the gorgeous stream of consciousness fantasia of Taxi Taxi and a hilariously tacked on remix of We All Sleep Alone with her original vocals.

It was said that Cher's label looked more in the direction of Gina G's Fresh album as a template.

 

[lolly]

Weird to think she only had 8 Top 10s, but that number does expand massively when you look at Top 40 hits. The UK absolutely loved her. Sorry LOVES her.

Regardless of how many hits she's had, she's one of those acts who is just so much bigger than chart records. Dolly is an even better example, in terms of paucity of hits.

 

[aquaplex]

Metro that was it. I suppose Cher's "Believe" was the more immediate influence, and probably why the sound was even bigger in 1999.

Yup. Diana Ross, Tina and Belinda all got them to do stuff for them.

So did Mike & The Mechanics, Nightcrawlers and Gary Barlow that year.

A1 and Enrique also had Metro produce stuff for their albums but it was more pop than dance pop like the above.