[Official Video] Rebecca Ferguson - Glitter & Gold

Rebecca Ferguson's voice will never get old for us. Just like her album, it feels utterly timeless - and watching the video for new single Glitter & Gold, which in its gloss and luxury feels like such a well-rounded part of her continuing campaign, you only wish she was riding high up in the charts with the likes of fellow female crooner Emeli Sande. Yes, you can bandy around phrases like 'Oh, but Rebecca's an album artist...', but really, with tracks as good as Glitter & Gold, there's no reason why the nation shouldn't be taking these songs to heart and going out an downloading them in their droves.

There's a standard of songwriting across her Heaven album that sets a new high water-mark for X Factor acts, and Glitter & Gold stands as a real showpiece for that. And as for the video, which wouldn't look out of place as some high-grade M&S advert, well, it fits the silkiness and velour of *that* voice perfectly. Then there's the whole 'Oh, these people are paper cut-outs, they must be *literally* shallow people' thing going on. Frankly, we love it, and we love her too.

Rebecca Ferguson - Glitter & Gold (Fever Pitch Mix)

Last week we posted the Cahill mix of Rebecca Ferguson's excellent new single Glitter & Gold, but the Fever Pitch mix - which we've just had the joy of hearing - is even better. Taking Rebecca's luxuriantly soulful vocal and wrapping it around a poppers'o'clock exuberant burst of magnificent that synthpop maestro's Erasure would be proud of. It's the kind of thing we would be over the moon about if we heard it as we walked into a club on Friday night. We love it, that's for sure.

Glitter & Gold is released on the 30th April.

Rebecca Ferguson - Glitter & Gold (Live from Echo Arena)

Rebecca Ferguson is someone that knows all about classy live performances. Aside from her giving one week in, week out on the X Factor, she's just polished off a tour round the UK, from which this stunning video of her singing I Need A Dollar-esque anthem Glitter & Gold comes. How beautiful does she look!

Rebecca Ferguson - Glitter & Gold (Cahill Club Edit)

Continuing the amazing disco diva makeover that Seamus Haji worked on sensational soul starlet Rebecca Ferguson on her previous single Too Good To Lose, Cahill takes up the baton on this ace re-work of new track Glitter & Gold. It's a swishing, sashaying take on the track, gorgeous string sections and blippy rave-tastic synths backing up *that* voice. Every time we hear Rebecca sing, we fall in love, all over again. We've long said how we always imagined her as an empowered club diva, and this version of Glitter & Gold is all that, personified.

Rebecca Ferguson - Glitter & Gold

In much the same way as Emeli Sande's Next To Me has turned out to be something of a real slow burner of a big hit, Rebecca Ferguson's Glitter & Gold very much makes a sort of obvious choice as the next single from her Heaven album. Rocking that same Aloe Blacc-styled piano riffing, it struts with a soulful elegance that's the very epitome of the poise and grace with which Rebecca has charmed the nation. It's all class, all the wonder of the Motown diva recaptured for a new audience. It's the mark of a real star that puts a stopper in the pipe of anyone who still touts that X Factor doesn't produce 'proper' talent.

There's also going to be a Cahill mix of it, which we reckon will be just as brilliant as the Seamus Haji version of Too Good To Lose was.

Glitter & Gold is released on the 30th April.