SPEWING out of speakers everywhere and sticking in your head like internal Tourette’s, pop songs give shape to relationships, dance moves and entire generations. With X Factor taking over a serious proportion of Saturday nights and Lady Gaga the subject of critical debates among pre-teens and university professors alike, whoever is responsible for these musical brain-worms deserves interrogation. Songwriter Alex Mills is currently working with producers who have written for the likes of Kylie Minogue and Paolo Nutino. She is also working on projects Bassment Jaxx and Rollo from Faithless’s protege Michael Mallinson. After our meeting, she’s off to the studio to work with Danny Weed from Roll Deep and his collective, who wrote the recent number one ‘Green Light’. In a noisy cafe behind Hackney Central, the Leeds-born, 28 year old singer cackles her way through telling me why she can’t stand the nine-to-five.