Sophie Ellis-Bextor has finally explained her disliking of I Won’t Change You.

The tune was released as the second single from her second album Shoot from the Hip but, unlike the majority of the star’s classic cuts, it rarely makes it into her live show.

Speaking to the Official Charts Company, Sophie named the track as her least favourite from her career and went into more detail than ever before as to why it ranks so low.

“This is easy for me. It’s a song called I Won’t Change You,” she says. “The lyrics in the second verse are really bad: ‘I used to change my style like I changed my mind / I tried to change a tyre but I’m not that way inclined / Tried to change my figure, my diet too / I’ll still change my underwear if that’s okay with you.’

“They weren’t even holding lyrics; all I remember is that I’d just started going out with Richard, I was very distracted,” laughs Sophie. “I thought, I’ll do a song with comedy in it, but comedy is tricky, isn’t it?

“I feel bad because I think the chorus deserved a better verse, I don’t mind the chorus at all,” she muses. “The video is pretty cringey as well. That blonde hair!”

While I Won’t Change You didn’t make the cut for Sophie’s recent greatest hits album, Songs from the Kitchen Disco, she clarifies: “If I’d had access to the backing track I would have sung it during the Kitchen Disco, but god knows what happened to my second album.

“I think Universal lost the masters because I have hardly any backing tracks from that record, which is really annoying.”