Sophie Ellis Bextor leans on three decades of pop experience for new album Perimenopop which she says “celebrates exactly where I am” as a “46 year-old singer.” She ticked off her entire wishlist from Kid Harpoon to Nile Rodgers making the new LP and plans to celebrate 25 years of her debut solo LP in 2026.
SOPHIE Ellis Bextor’s new album proves it’s not Murder being a 40 something popstar. After dabbling with different genres of late from folk to chamber music, she’s returned to her first love – disco pop. And it’s all so much easier now armed with three decades of experience.
Sophie told the Daily Star: “I’m 30 years down the track her – happily so – that’s why the album’s called Perimenopop. I’m a 46 year old singer, I adore what I do, and I really want to celebrate exactly where I’m at.
“And by totally drawing that into the album, it means that I can be completely myself. So if there’s ever a time when you should be feeling like that, it’s at this point in your career.”
Sophie made three albums with indie troubadour Ed Harcourt before her latest, and she managed to squeeze him onto the new LP.
“I brought him in, we wrote a song with Nile Rodgers together,” she revealed. “I’m super proud of actually making disco a tiny part of his life. It was a really happy writing session, it was on my birthday. I was just like, ‘This is great’.”
Big names ranging from Harry Styles producer Kid Harpoon to Spice Girls legend Richard Stannard helped make the album and it was all thanks to the second coming of her hit Murder On The Dancefloor.
She explained: “Thanks to ‘Murder being in Saltburn (movie) I just wrote an absolute wish list, and they all said yes, because the momentum of it really got me in the room with people who might have been a bit busy otherwise, and I just totally took advantage of them.”
Her music is timeless but so are Sophie’s looks, does she have any beauty secrets?
“Firstly, I love what I do,” she replied. “So I spend a lot of time smiling.
“Secondly, I might be crazy. I still don’t think I’m that old. I don’t think 46 is wild old, And my friends all look really good. So if I can if I can keep up with them, I’m happy.”
Next year marks 25 years of Murder On The Dancefloor, so will there be any special celebrations?
“I think probably more for me will be my album, because Read My Lips came out 25 years ago next year.
“So why not celebrate that? Because that was the beginning of what I do now, really, a solo career. And it was such a big moment for me, that album. So I can invite ‘Murder’s other 11 friends as well.”
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