When I was a child, we had a pet Airedale Terrier. Amongst her usual doggy traits – some of which weren’t suitable for polite company – was her habit of being bored. She used to traipse around the house in circles, up and down the stairs, in and out of the kitchen and lounge. Then when she got fed up of that, she’d spend 10 minutes outside, before coming back into the house and repeating the exercise.

This song doesn’t make me feel like doing any of these things, but it does leave me similarly frustrated. There are approximately three songs here, each trying to break out: the usual pop song – play ‘spot the influences’ with this – the bolted-on chorus (which is annoyingly catch-y) and the hideously out of place break (ignore the drums and you’ll see this) which almost drags the song down into X Factor blandness. Given another couple of sessions in the mix, all these issues could be sorted out and you’d have one truly great song – it’s in there somewhere: the last twenty seconds are fabulous. Maybe the remixes will be better.