Alexandra Burke's new single 'Elephant' - was it worth the wait?

It may have had more false starts than an Olympic 100-metre sprinter, but Alexandra Burke's new single 'Elephant' is finally here. "You wanna talk, you wanna talk about it?" she demands in the song's opening line - and quite frankly our answer is, 'Yes. Yes we do Alex.'

The X Factor champ has teamed up with DJ Erick Morillo - whose previous hits include 1993's 'I Like To Move It (!?) - and has latched on to the current craze for a handbag house anthem. "There's an elephant standing in the room," she purrs over a slick mix of smooth Euro-synths and steadily-building club beats - delivering a pre-chorus more satisfying than a tub of Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream, before said dessert splatters all over the wall from the sheer brilliance of the actual chorus.

Listen to 'Elephant' below:



We can safely say that 'Elephant' was worth the extended wait. Sure, it's been unnecessarily Auto-Tuned within an inch of it's life, and it could definitely do with just one more breakdown at the end, but on repeated listens the song gets better and better. Let's just hope radio picks it up and makes it the hit it deserves to be.

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