The Daily Mail recently described ‘Lucky Day’ by Nicola Roberts as “totally catchy-sounding”.

Catchy-sounding? The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ‘catchy’ as “appealing and easy to remember”. ‘Lucky Day’ is both of those things, specifically the latter.

Easy to remember sounds are the noises we first make as children. Repetitive noises so catchy that when they’re uttered by an infant, a fully-grown adult will start talking in ‘baby talk’.

The utterly addictive noises start early in ‘Lucky Day’: within 30 seconds there’s not only a ‘woah woah woah woah’ but a ‘mwah mwah mwah mwah’ too. It doesn’t stop there either. Moments later there are ‘boom’s and ‘zoom’s, not to mention at least one ‘aha’.

Nicola manages to fill the bridge with both an ‘oooo’ and an ‘oh!’. Then, just when you think; “this song couldn’t possibly be easier to remember!” she brings in the final chorus, giving the listener everything from ‘Lu-u-u-u-cky’ right through to ‘daaaaaaaay’, and even one special use of ‘day-ay-ay-ay-ay’. The song has it all.

This all leads to ‘Lucky Day’ being not just easy to remember but rather appealing too. It’s far more than just “catchy-sounding”, it is full on, top of your lungs, hair-brush in front of the mirror, pop song sing-a-long catchy.