N'Joi'd that

Sourced inIsn't she lovely?After N’Joi, Saffron fronted - front being the operative word - this Republica tune that I file with a lineage of excitable go-for-it ladette pop (Icona Pop, "I Love It", Pink "Coming Up", Spice Girls's "Wannabe", Ke$ha "Tik Tok" / "We R Who We R", Martin Solveig + Dragonette "Hello", Ting Tings "The Drums", right through to Charli xcx)Even more delightful in this mode I thinkToo exuberant and boisterous to be glamorous, too insolent to be elegant Lily Allen hovers on the edge of this lineage, as a spiritual sister, a cheeky monkey, but her tunes are a bit too chill and leisurely in tempo yet also laden with meaning, lyrics-wise. Too fraught with grown-up anxieties and recriminations, too, whereas these girls are out to party and have not a care in the world.Of course that's pretty much where Charlie XCX started her career, so it's make a nice loop of party-hard girl-pop“Ready to Go” is a very calculated record - let's merge dance and Britpop - but for all…