The Corrs' career spanned twelve years. They sold thirty million albums - despite managing to make Enya sound like Metallica - and now, leaving behind a legacy of sonic torture that would impress the most nefarious of weapons designers, they've decided to retire and 'spend more time with their families'.
Not Andrea Corr, though. Champagne From A Straw is the second single from her debut Nellee Hooper-produced solo album, Ten Feet High. Will it be responsible for launching her solo career into the stratosphere of pop divadom? Will it buggery.
And it's not really Andrea's fault: the blame for this ill-intentioned dig at celebrity excess can be laid squarely at the mixing desk of Nellee Hooper. Really, Nellee - what where you thinking? What happened to the magic touch that launched Bjork to solo acclaim? Champagne From A Straw thuds where it should dance, a vaguely Caribbean-influenced backing track that feels like lead weights around Andrea's voice. Add in trumpet fills that sound like incidental music from The Shopping Network, piano chords that land like goose-stepping feet - it's mediocre, it's borderline offensive, it's not something that you should waste your money on.
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