UK release date: 14 May 2007 (digital)/28 May 2007 (physical)
Ever since Madonna lifted an entire Abba song for her Hung Up single, it's become de riguer in the pop world to take sampling to extremes. Where Public Enemy used to swipe a James Brown drumbeat, now it's quite normal to use a song's entire backing track as a melody.
The effect of all this is that you may have thought you've heard Mutya Buena's first solo single before. That's because you have, under its previous guise of Lenny Kravitz's It Ain't Over Till It's Over. Over its slinky soul beat, the former Sugababe tells us how she's a real girl, she's true to herself and what you see is what you get, and so on.
The single does prove that she was the strongest vocalist in Sugababes, but you can't help shake the feeling that those first solo Spice Girl records produced - it's pleasant pop, but without her former bandmates, that magic touch has been lost somehow. Place your bets now for a reunion before 2010.
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