The track, "Strung Out" gained significant attention for being co-written by Amelle Berrabah, who subsequently replaced Buena after she left the group.

Buena was reportedly unhappy upon finding this out, but record company executives pushed for the song's inclusion on the album.

Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian found that "what emerges from her debut album is the fact that she'd quite like to be compared to Mary J. Blige, but will settle for Jamelia.

Turning her back on Suga-pop, she has set herself up as a sophisticated urban girl, availing herself of the talents of Groove Armada, Amy Winehouse and George Michael to produce perfectly buff R&B.

[4] Jaime Gill, writing for Yahoo Music, found that "a few more spiky moments like this "["B Boy Baby"] and "Song 4 Mutya", and a few less mid-tempo snoozes like "It's Not Easy", and this could have been a brilliant, bold debut by one of our most interesting pop stars.

And not even Winehouse herself (who rocks up on backing vocals on "B Boy Baby" – the not-quite-funny re-working of The Ronettes classic of nearly the same name) can stop it being any less of a letdown.

"[7] Real Girl debuted and peaked at number ten on the UK Albums Chart, having sold 35,103 copies.

[9] It reached Silver status after only four days of release and was certified Gold by British Phonographic Industry on 14 December 2007.