It’s about time. I’ve been waiting all year for Mika to release Lollipop, which could easily have been the immediate successor to Grace Kelly.

Lollipop is yet another sugary helping of Mika’s delicious brand of upbeat pop music. This time though, it’s part of a double A side package that includes his other camp as a row of tents tune, Relax (Take It Easy).

On one hand, Lollipop has this kid-friendly beat, irresistible chanted verses and falsetto choruses. On the other, it does the sexually ambiguous lyric “sucking too hard on your lollipop”. Is Mika singing about genitalia, or has he got a genuine sweet tooth?

Nevertheless, the song is one of the best tracks on the Life In Cartoon Motion album, so I highly recommend it. The video sticks very closely to the visual style in the album and single covers. Here ya go…