"Everytime We Touch" — Cascada
The eurodance sugar-rush that soundtracked every mid-2000s school dance, roller rink, and flip-phone ringtone. Cascada's Natalie Horler belting over hammering synths made "Everytime We Touch" inescapable — and nobody could stay off the floor when it hit.
Cascada was a German eurodance act: singer Natalie Horler with producers Manian and Yanou. Released as a single on August 16, 2005, "Everytime We Touch" borrowed its chorus from Scottish singer Maggie Reilly's 1992 song of the same name — the original's writers appear in the credits — and welded it to a pounding hands-in-the-air dance track built for maximum velocity.
It worked absurdly well. The single climbed to number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2006, hit number one in Ireland and Sweden, and went Platinum in the US — with the UK eventually certifying it triple Platinum. In America it lived everywhere pop-punk didn't: middle-school dances, cheer routines, and the tinny ringtone speakers of the flip-phone era. The 2006 debut album of the same name cemented Cascada as the face of the decade's eurodance revival lane, and the song has never really left — it resurfaces any time a DJ needs an entire room screaming the chorus.
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