One of the first efforts Robbie wrote with his new songwriting partner Stephen Duffy, ‘Sin Sin Sin', with its metronomic beat, is an engagingly hypnotic song about a dirty old man who craves a shag. "Basically," Robbie grins, "it's about the kind of bloke I will turn into myself one day." Despite its sly content, this features his most mannered vocal to date, reminiscent of Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant, but with even finer annunciation. His mother would be proud; Stephen Duffy already is. "As soon as we'd completed this track," Duffy says, "I thought we might just have a future together."