Lady Antebellum "Need You Now" (The Remixes)

Need You Now (Static Revenger Mixshow)
Need You Now (Static Revenger Club Mix)
Need You Now (Static Revenger Dub Mix)
Need You Now (Hott 22 Big Room Mix)
Need You Now (Hott 22 Deep Dub Mix)
Need You Now (Dark Intensity Club Remix)
Need You Now (Dark Intensity Dub Remix)
Need You Now (Dark Intensity Radio Edit)
Need You Now (Jason Nevins Rhythm Mix)
Need You Now (Jason Nevins Elektrotek Radio Mix)
Need You Now (Jason Nevins Elektrotek Extended Mix)
Need You Now (Jason Nevins Hands Up Radio Mix)
Need You Now (Jason Nevins Hands Up Extended Mix)

Gay guys get caught up in a huge steaming pile of bullshit. We have such a knack for convincing ourselves of the necessity of things that plainly aren't necessary. Call it overcompensation for the low self-worth a lot of us suffered from starting at a young age or just simple naivete and gullibility for luxury marketing, but that unawareness of what's right in front of our face, and what's just "enough" as is, is probably our biggest obstacle when it comes to love and self love. And leave it to a country love song to bring up all that.

Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" has become an international radio hit, winning over fans of all music genres, and continues to dominate Top 40 radio nearly a year after its first spin. Its beautifully painted imagery of two people still longing for each other after a split and finally admitting to themselves in the eleventh hour that they've reached the end of their resistance and can no longer convince themselves that they don't ultimately need each other is such a painfully romantic one, you'd be hard pressed to find anyone not moved by it. How many of us have been out at the bars, looking around the room for someone to stop our heart, when all the while there's already a picture in our minds of the man who stopped our heart before and who we're just trying to replace or deny. Then when we get home — drunk, tired and emotionally exhausted — we're faced with an empty apartment, a bed too big for one person and the nagging realization that what we thought was so valid a reason not to be with him, was really just our own fear of accepting what was in front of us as the ideal instead of some castle on a cloud. And that at that moment all you want in the world is his hot breath on your skin, his arms pulling you against him and the feeling that in that moment, you have everything.

In its original version, "Need You Now" is a mid-tempo country ballad, structured around four descending piano keys and a gentle electric guitar, and the vocals of Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley calling back and forth to each other, fulfilling everyone's fantasy that as you're longing for someone, they're also longing for you. The song was ripe for remixing from the very beginning, but as with many country songs, remixes aren't even conceivable until it becomes such a crossover hit that a need is generated for allowing the song to reach that niche market. Now, 6 months after the album's release, the official remixes of "Need You Now" have finally be released and the club goers can finally love the track in the way the DJ intended. Remixed by Jason Nevins, Hott 22, Static Revenger and bootleg-to-relevant production team Dark Intensity, the package is a well rounded one and gives you a number of ways to love the song all over again. The mixes are more straight house and progressive than circuit, as is more appropriate for the mood of the song. Hott 22 goes in the way of happy piano house, Static Revenger goes slightly harder but still congruent with the lyrics, Dark Intensity is more classic progressive trance NRG, but the cake goes to Jason Nevins and his tried and true remix formula of not reinventing the song, just augmenting it. His mixes come in three different flavors - Rhythmic (simple radio dance mix), Elektrotek (chunky electro-ish mix) and Hands Up (progressive house mix). Overall, very successful makeover and this'll keep "Need You Now" relevant throughout the summer. Eat it up. And call him. Really.