If You're Not The One shows Bedingfield's mettle as a songwriter with the potential to earn a great deal scribing tunes for the likes of Whitney Houston or, ye gods help us, Celine Dion.

But as slushy ballads go, the boy's done good, and the tune's not bad either. Just don't think you'll be dancing to it. More a case of saying to yourself: "I gotta get thru this."