He explained in his autobiography, A Cure for Gravity: I bought a cheap secondhand upright piano and worked on a song called 'One More Time', with a driving guitar riff and anguished lyrics about the end of a relationship.

Just as we create new music by endlessly reshuffling the same old chords and scales.The lyrics of "One More Time" feature the singer asking his ex-lover to truthfully tell him that she never loved him.

He noted, "Mixed so well, the power of the bass and lead guitar takes your mind off the fact that Joe is singing a fairly routine love song.

[5] Peter Trollope of the Liverpool Echo noted the song "doesn't waste time before ramming the message home with some tough guitar work".

He felt it lacked the "commercial appeal" of Jackson's previous two singles, but added "it still has enough going for it to suggest that Joe is going to be this year's thing".

[6] Rolling Stone critic Bud Scoppa described "One More Time" as a "welcome merger of edginess and ear candy, which connected immediately with fans who couldn't abide the brutal fun of 'God Save the Queen.