Nominating this as star single isn't going to win me any credibility points. It's the kind of obvious, blatantly commercial number that everyone sneers at until it makes the top five and then some vaguely apologetic voice pipes up with: "actually, I quite like this". The producer, who also wrote the thing and, for all we know, knitted Lisa's rather fetching string vest for her as well, has boosted her little girl voice until it's just this side of glass-shattering, schooled the drummer in the ABC clatter and compressed every element right down so that, on replay, everything springs out like the contents of an overstuffed suitcase. A contender. (David Hepworth, Smash Hits, October 28, 1982)
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