Let's be honest, Natalia Kills is fit. She's the kind of singer that's so achingly beautiful that you can't help but fall in love with her - a striking electro-goddess come to dazzle us mere mortals into awe.
Of course, it helps that her tracks are some of the finest grade of pop around at the moment. Mirrors, Wonderland - both latch onto your consciousness with an energy that seems almost alive in intensity.
New single Free represents something a little different though - especially in its single version, featuring Will.i.am. More urban, more rhythmic, it's less about the in your face beat and synth combos that make up so much of Natalia's album, and more about pushing her sultriness to the max.
Imploring us to get our money out, Natalia's delivery is playful, but suffused with a vulnerability too - 'Stretch that dollar bill', she says, a reminder that we all have to make ends meet at the end of the day.
Many have said Aloe Blacc's I Need A Dollar is an anthem for these current times of austerity, but it could just as easily be Natalia's Free.
And as she raps so delightfully at one point, 'I could look fresh in a potato sack' - Yes Natalia, you probably could.
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