After 15 years of laying the groundwork for her own pop supremacy, Kylie Minogue must be none too pleased to witness the apparently effortless success of minxy mini-me Holly Valance.

Since emerging from the cocoon of Neighbours, Valance's stock in trade has been fluttery disco that makes her so hot she has to take her clothes off (doing so in the video to her first single, Kiss Kiss, helped usher it straight to number one).

But her Kylie impersonation lacks the self-deprecating charm of the original, without which this "project" feels like an ambitious soap starlet chancing her arm. Despite producer Nellee Hooper affixing a bit of acoustic gravitas to the likes of Down Boy, Footprints quickly comes up against Valance's breathy mediocrity.

That said, the burbling Naughty Girl makes it clear that Valance's primary purpose is to disturb impressionable men, making the album a triumph in that respect.