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There's another subtitle here, but at least a well-known one: apparently it was added to avoid confusion with the Van Halen song.
In some ways, it's difficult to review this song in words, because it's not a work of great literary ambition; it strives to be no more than the vivacious pop song that it is. Perhaps the most interesting (if obvious) way to look at it is to compare it to the Girls Aloud version; they didn't exactly reinvent it but the words are much more intelligible there, which isn't necessarily an advantage. Both versions also sound slightly overstaffed, as if they don't really need so many singers on them, but that's the risk you run in a vocal group. And the version I've linked to has a longer outro than I remember, which certainly could have been trimmed. For all that, though, this is a record that succeeds so well on its own terms as to make further questions irrelevant.
Available on: Jump: the Best of the Pointer Sisters
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