Alexandra Burke has been talking about the elephant in the room

Alexandra Burke has been 'clearing up' the reason for the delays to her "perfect" new single 'Elephant'.

Explaining the reason for the second post­pone­ment she said: "The remix was meant to be in the clubs from December — that never happened."

She added: "I thought, 'Well it didn't go according to plan with how I wanted for December'. So with RCA and man­age­ment, we came to a mutual decision to push it two weeks."

Alexandra said the inspir­a­tion for the track came from spending time with American song­writers. The lin­guistic pioneer remarked: "The saying, 'There's an elephant in the room' is very, very American. I thought it was really inter­est­ing because they say it a lot. So, I thought I can be that girl, that person that brings that saying over here to make it a little bit more UK."

You can read the full interview over on showbiz website Digitalspy.