Shontelle: 'Perfect Nightmare'

"Sometimes we fight/ Sometimes I cry/ Why don't I just tell him goodbye?" Shontelle croons on the opening verse of her new single and what sounds like a cracking set up for a ballad. "I don't ever wanna leave him alone/ They say I'm brainwashed but I'm in love," she continues, cueing up a powerful, tear-jerker of a chorus...

Hang on, this is a dance track?! As she wrestles over her conflicting affections for a bad boy lover over a haunting piano riff, the track bursts open at the 1m15s mark and seamlessly transforms into a hectic R&B-dance number with a bongo beat that canters along as relentlessly as a thoroughbred racehorse. "No way, no way, no way!" she insists about taking the dodgy fella back. C'mere Shonts, we'll get the Horlicks on and you can tell us all about it.

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