My Heart Takes Over

Having given their last record an, erm, glowing two-star review, I was delighted to hear that the good folk at Polydor finally hit rainbow poppers The Saturdays up with ten CCs of personality, as evidenced by their absolutely stomping floorfiller ‘Notorious’. Shmaltzy ditty ‘My Heart Takes Over’ is nowhere near as addictive, but it sure tops their earlier attempts at balladry, which were at best, horrendously shrill. They’ve pushed themselves with a belter of a chorus on this one, in the vein of our favourite Stateside R&B honeys, only The Saturdays have churned their heartfelt blubs around in their trusty vocoder doohickey first. Hey, if they didn’t do it...