Sophie Ellis-Bextor desires to “have fun her age” along with her upcoming album.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor desires to ‘have fun her age’ along with her upcoming album
The 46-year-old singer was lead vocalist of the indie rock band Theaudience within the late Nineties earlier than breaking out as a solo artist within the years that adopted and as she gears up for the September launch of her eighth album Perimenopop, she insisted that pop is her favorite style of music.
Talking reside on stage throughout a present on the Royal Albert Corridor, she mentioned: “I’ve been singing for 30 years now and all through my profession I’ve been fortunate sufficient to fortunately play with many music genres, however my coronary heart beats the quickest for pop.
“This album is a celebration of that relationship.
“In truth, it’s a celebration of a lot of issues, together with being the age I’m at and nonetheless having so many adventures and a lot enjoyable.”
Sophie loved main success within the pop market in the course of the early 2000s with hits resembling Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) and Get Over You however then had a a large profession resurgence when her 2001 monitor ‘Homicide on the Dancefloor’ was famously used within the ultimate scene of the 2023 movie Saltburn.
Within the scene, actor Barry Keoghan danced round utterly bare and he or she lately admitted that she has simply tried to benefit from the alternatives the viral second has introduced her.
She instructed BBC Breakfast on the finish of 2024: “There have been some issues I knew I used to be doing this 12 months and there have been so many issues that I wasn’t anticipating.
“I feel there’s so much to mirror on. I’ve by no means achieved so many exhibits in my life. I’ve achieved about 110 gigs this 12 months.
“That is not simply me, that is all my band and crew as nicely. Wonderful.
“There’s been some actual highlights. It is a unprecedented factor to get to my stage in my profession and to nonetheless be doing issues, new pleasure. So I’ve simply wished to actually seize maintain of that. And that is very a lot a part of that as nicely.”