If two’s a trend, here’s one that has my full support.

Following Bright Light Light Bright’s contemplative cover of Billie Ray Martin’s “Your Loving Arms,” one of his contemporaries on the UK pop singer-songwriter scene, Nerina Pallot, has given a different ’90s club classic a similar downtempo treatment.

Included on her new EP, Lonely Valentine Club, Pallot has flipped CeCe Peniston‘s 1992 beat-happy hit “Finally” into a blue-tinged ballad.

“I’ve loved this song since I was a teenager, and felt underneath its unrelenting perkiness was a quiet sadness,” Pallot tells The Guardian. “If you picture CeCe’s grinning demeanor in the video, my version is how someone who’d kissed way too many frogs would feel like when they finally found the one. Less ecstatic, more ‘Thank fuck I never have to date again.'”

Interestingly, had history played out differently, “Finally” might have become famous as a ballad in the first place.

Interviewed by house music magazine 5 Chicago in 2006, Peniston said “Finally” began as a poem she’d written in college, coming up with a melody and additional lyrics when A&M signed her for a single. The house beats came later, the addition of her producers. “You know what’s so funny is I was always the one that came in and slowed it down. That’s what’s so ironic about me putting out ‘Finally,’ because I was always the R&B person, the balladeer when I came in and did everything.”

Purchase Nerina Pallot – “Finally” (CeCe Peniston) via iTunes, Amazon MP3.