Finally, a proper review on Nadine's song

Here we are, viewers, ready to finally sit down and take a stab at analyzing Nadine Coyle's first solo track, "Insatiable".

Now there's always going to be a whiff of uncertainty and expectation coming along with any Girls Aloud solo project. It happened just about this time last year when Cheryl Cole went solo, and in the sweetest of dreams it will happen when Nicola Roberts goes solo and becomes the most amazing dark electro-dance artist the world has ever seen (THINK ABOUT IT. WOULD SHE NOT BE PERFECT FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. COME ON NIC.)

It was always inevitable, right from the get-go, that if/when Girls Aloud broke up and they started splintering into solo careers, Nadine would probably be the first to jump at the chance. She was the voice of the band, the only one who could really carry a track all by her stick-thin self (not to say that the other girls don't have good voices, but let's face it, none of them aside from Nicola have much personality behind them).

But then Cheryl got into the papers for beating up that nightclub attendant, Cheryl married the footballer, Cheryl got onto The X-Factor, Cheryl got into public feuds with Lily Allen and Charlotte Church, Cheryl got a divorce from her philandering footballer husband, and Cheryl ended up being the first one to steal Nadine's thunder (according to some), and strike out solo, and she became even more famous because of it. Was Cheryl's first solo record any good? Absolutely not, but it certainly proved that audiences were ready to lap her up without any second thought.

So here we are a year later. Still no signs of a Girls Aloud reunion on the near horizon, Cheryl is about to release her second solo album, and FINALLY Nadine gets her toothpick legs in gear and works on her album. For starters, her first single, "Insatiable", is very appropriate for her. Big, brassy, flamboyant, not the least-bit urban, very diva...it's exactly the type of song we hoped Nadine would record on her own. It suits her very well.

The big question is, is it any good? To some, that might be entirely irrelevant, because she's either going to succeed and then the Girls Aloud reunion will become even less imminent, or she will flop and then there will just be endless headlines pitting her alongside Cheryl's continued success.

For the record, "Insatiable" is quite good. We love Nadine's voice - we always have - and we can't get over just how perfect this song is for her. It is the complete opposite of our reaction to Cheryl's music when it first hit these ears, and that is something we're quite pleased to say. Whether there's an audience for her remains to be seen. She's a bit of a kooky one, admittedly. She hasn't connected with the public the way that Cheryl has, and by golly we salute anyone who can understand a single word she says when she speaks (trust us, YouTube an interview with her and you might as well be watching a documentary about amoebas in Hungarian). But we love the girl and we think "Insatiable" is a very promising start for her. The rest is for the record-buying public to decide.