Chart entered : 12 November 1988
Chart peak : 53 ( 48 in re-mixed form in 1990 )
Number of hits : 13
Like Jocelyn Brown ( with whom she duetted on two of her hits ) Kym is a serial collaborator though not quite to the same extent.
She was born Kimberly Grigsby in Gary, Indiana ( 1960 ) and knew the Jackson family growing up there. She studied Entertainment Management at Columbia College, Chicago and was drawn into the house scene there. She started working with producer Marshall Jefferson and was featured vocalist on his 1987 single "Tate My Love" under the nom de plume House To House. A generic club record, I've haeard it twice in the last hour and it's made zero impression on me. I don't think it was released in the UK.
Though it's more celebrated, as an I Will Survive for the nineties, I can't say that "Useless" does much more for me. Jefferson wrote and produced the track ,inspired by Ktm's dissatisfaction with a rotten boyfriend. Kym lets rip in the vocal department and there's certainly a powerful pair of lungs beneath that huge chest. Jefferson adds piano, funky guitar and chattering percussion to the mix to fill out the sound behind her but the chorus is a repetitive chant of the subtitle and you just don't come away from it singing.
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