As in the norm with my reviews, I usually start with something completely off-topic, and then thread it into an analogy that relates to the song in question. It's a method I picked up from Fraser McAlpine (of BBC ChartBlog fame), and until now it's seen me very well through nearly one-hundred reviews, but there are times, like now, when the single in question is so hard to attack that you just have to resort to a good old comparison.
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