Alexandra Burke - Let It Go

I think it's fair to say that Alexandra Burke has decided she's usually at her best when banging out immense dance anthems, so, having promptly delivered Elephant into the hands of a nation of eager pop lovers, she's gone and done it again with new single Let It Go. But whereas Elephant fired away like a high-powered nuclear reactor of futuristic electro energy, Let It Go dips into the past - specifically, the 90s, and rides away on a bubbly Show Me Love-esque riff and shades of 2 Unlimited.

The good thing is, Let It Go is rather decent, if a little by-the-numbers - and that trancey chorus bit is DanceAlex in full-tilt. But the trouble is, will this be the track to finally warm the public to Alexandra again in the way Elephant only really half managed? I'm not so sure. There's only so long an artist can coast along in the Top 10 for without the backing and full support of the public and radio, and right now for Alex, this is looking particularly intermittent. We shall see...

Let It Go is released on the 28th May.

[Official Video] Alexandra Burke - Elephant

When you want to announce your come-back in style, you do it with a massive fuck-off knuckle ring and skimpy hot leather. That's how you go about things if you're Alexandra Burke anyway, and her video for Elephant certainly matches up to the dirty, gritty electro vibe of the track itself. Fierce only begins to cover it.

Elephant by pbax94

Alexandra Burke - Elephant

It's been one of the most anticipated pop singles in recent months, and with a number of shifted release dates, the first single from Alexandra Burke's second album was starting to look like it might falter before it even got started. But hearing the full radio version of the single blows all doubts away in an instant: it's a full-throttle adrenaline rush of a song that hurtles from hard electro filth to nuclear reactor synth blasts.

For me, Elephant is the ultimate in dance-pop allure - a dark, sensual ride of apocalyptic rhythms and teetering bass - it remains definitively commercial whilst re-positioning Alexandra as an uncompromising disco diva. When she goes in, she goes in to win.

And of course, Elephant wouldn't be an Alexandra Burke without a sky-piercing high note in the middle-eight where she gets to show off the true extent of vocal acrobatics she can accomplish. In short, it owns - Ok.Com?

Sure, it might lack the uber-refined nature of her classic singles, it more than makes up for it with its dirty electronic rawness. This is Alexandra at her most dancey to date, a Euro-smash monster to slay dancefloors across the country and beyond. It's the sound of an artist that has left the X Factor for dust behind her, moving ever onwards and upwards to better things - the sound of a proper popstar.

Elephant is released on the 12th March.

Elephant by CaptainGravity

Alexandra Burke - Elephant (Remix)

Alexandra Burke - she's been away a while, but any pop fan worth their salt knows that the wait will (fingers crossed) be worth it. You see, Alexandra Burke, for my money anyway, remains pretty much the best winning contestant from X Factor ever.

Bad Boys, Broken Heels, All Night Long - one of the best runs of singles in recent pop history - hell, even her perfunctory winner's single ballad was rather good; her cover of Hallelujah remains to this date one of the more tolerable songs to be released straight off the back of the show.

And so now we turn to the first single from her eagerly anticipated second album. For the moment, all we have of Elephant is this remix snippet premiered on Pete Tong's Radio 1 dance show, but from what you can make out, all the hooks are in place and it seems to be shaping up to be quite the 'banger'. We approve!

Elephant (Remix) by msc12