Remember, this is the guy who made Radiohead’s stadium-filling “Bends”
highlight “Just” into a jazzily funky dance anthem, so when he announced he was trying his hand at covering the already classic Britney track “Toxic”
hopes were understandably as high as Donny Tourette must have been when he entered the Big Brother house and tried it on with a girl twice his age. That this disappoints is probably only because of just how good his previous track was, because Ronson has done the trick again and performed a miracle by removing Britney and yet still making the tune even dirtier than it previously was. Horns and trumpets turn the song into something arguably even better than the already brilliant original and is helped by a fantastically unexpected rap from the legendary ODB. The nagging doubt that Ronson is a one-trick pony (he does essentially exactly the same thing here as he did with “Just”) is worrying, but what a trick it is, and with his “Version” album out on April 16 (which includes a cover of “God Put A Smile Upon Your Face”) hopefully he can prove that he really is one of the most exciting artists that Britain has right now.
