Hermione Hoby 

Nicola Roberts: Cinderella’s Eyes – review

Nicola Roberts stakes a claim for being Girls Aloud's pale and interesting member with this effervescent solo debut, writes Hermione Hoby
  
  


The infectiously bratty cheerleading of Roberts's triumphal single "Beat of My Drum", confirmed her as the pale and interesting member of Girls Aloud and this effervescent solo debut - on which she's marshalled the talents of Diplo and Metronomy - feels like a victory for dissenting teenage girls the country over. From the weirdness of "I", which she's called her "funeral song" - a narcotised litany of hates and hopes, set over eerie, plodding synths - to her Florence-bothering bellow of "heaaaaaart" on the fearsome "Porcelain Heart", Roberts sounds utterly self-assured.

 

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