Don't Hold Your Breath (She Won't Release An Album)

A while ago, Popjustice did a feature on the trials and tribulations of Nicole Schzerzinger's latest single. If you'd like the abbreviated version: the song, "Don't Hold Your Breath", started out life as a Timbaland-4-Keri-Hilson demo. You can hear the demo here. It is not bad, and, in fact, if Keri really wanted a worldwide hit for her 'sophomore' album, this would've done the trick a lot better than any of the pseudo-soul guff or flagrant 'pussy-popping' she decided to release instead.

Anyway, Keri was off on her adventure of seemingly intentional flop, and Nicole Scherzinger was so desperately in need of a hit that would take her to a point that she might finally be able to release an album that she had practically GLUED herself to RedOne for the past year. And then this somehow fell into her hands.

At some point in the past month or so, a demo version leaked online, first without Scherzinger's vocals and then WITH them. We are almost certain this is the version WITH her vocals

As you can hear, it is impeccable and flawless. A light-as-air stomper (they do exist, oxymoronic as that sounds) somewhere between Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" and a Nelly Furtado mega-midtempo, it is exactly the sort of thing Nicole should be releasing if she doesn't want to go the same way as Poor Gurl Keri.

Unfortunately, that is not the single version. The video has appeared online today and, we are sad to say, RedOne, or whoever has produced it, seems to have almost completely done away with the glimmering production in favour of a RAMP-IT-UP, CASCADA, FEMALE BASSHUNTER approach.

We know which version we'll have in our iTunes (clue: NOT THE FINAL VERSION).