More cheeks to turn than a Chinese phonebook (no hang on, that's wrong)

Lets be honest, Sophie Ellis Bextor has had more lives than the feline inhabitants of your local RSPCA shelter over the bumpy ride of her pop music career.

Why people didn't take to the posh, British Kylie is beyond us because over the years she has released some really great songs - and, lets be honest, some shocking pieces of old tat. But, as she sings on her latest effort to engage with the indifferent British public, 'I'm not giving up' even if the sensible thing would have been to go and get a job in an office years ago.

Fortunately, she didn't, and so we have the follow slice of amazing Euro-trance-pop / British poshness combination in Sophie's new single, a collaboration with Armin van Buuren, 'Not Giving Up On Love'.

Please ignore the fact the video below appears to have the world 'minge' scrawled across the top left.



Now, we doubt very much that something so very 4am-in-the-morning, not-quite-sober is going to see Sophie back to the glory days of 'Take Me Home' or any of her other early Top Ten placings, but we commend her for releasing something with a little more 'oomph' than, say 'Me & My Imagination' or 'I Won't Change You'.