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\n\tU.K. singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor<\/a> is coming off a year in which she felt \u201clike after you have a glass of champagne and you\u2019re a bit heady.\u201d After her 2001 disco-pop classic, \u201cMurder on the Dancefloor,\u201d was revived by its use in 2023 black comedy Saltburn<\/em>, the song once again became a global smash, reaching the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> for the first time in the United States (peaking at No. 51) and matching its 25-year-old No. 2 peak in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter spending a year flaunting her new commercial appeal \u2014 including on her first-ever U.S. tour \u2014 Ellis-\u00adBextor returns with Perimenopop<\/em>. Out Sept. 12, the album features 12 sparkling dancefloor jams as intoxicating, clever and honest as its title, as well as collaborators such as disco legend Nile Rodgers.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThanks to \u2018Murder,\u2019 I basically just wrote a wish list,\u201d she says, \u201cand I completely took advantage of the fact that I could then get in the studio with people who maybe might not have [otherwise] had time.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhat was the craziest moment from the entire \u00ad\u201cMurder\u201d revival?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tThat\u2019s easy: It\u2019s definitely the fact that I\u2019ve now done gigs in America. In the beginning of last year, I\u2019d never done so much as a radio interview. I started those gigs thinking, \u201cIs this going to be a room full of people waiting for me to sing one song?\u201d But I was met with a lot of people who clearly had been supporting what I\u2019m up to from far away.<\/p>\n \n\tI have to say, <\/strong>Perimenopop<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 album title of the year. How did you come up with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tFor me and all my girlfriends in our mid-40s, there\u2019s a bit of a narrative about some aspects that might sound a bit gloomy. And I just wanted something that would flip the script on it a little bit \u2014 and also invite into the room the fact that I\u2019m not the way I was when I was 20. I think it\u2019s also quite a good indicator of how much more ballsy I\u2019ve gotten as I\u2019ve gotten older. But how lucky am I that I\u2019ve been able to have a career long enough to feel that comfortable?<\/p>\n \n\tWhat was it like working with Nile Rodgers?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tTo hear all the stories and just be imbued with someone [who] direct-line influenced and inspired me so much was really cool. I think my favorite bit was Nile talking about Madonna, and I said, \u201cHave you seen her recently?\u201d He went, \u201cYeah, we went roller skating together.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAre you liking what you\u2019re seeing from the rest of the U.K. pop world these days?<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tWhat happened with Charli xcx and brat<\/em> is \u00adobviously so brilliant. But also what I love about it is it really lets the mask fall. And I think teenage me would have completely resonated with that. We talked about a Brat Summer, and I think in my head I was like, \u201cWell, maybe Perimenopop<\/em> is your autumn?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThis story appears in the Aug. 16, 2025, issue of <\/em>Billboard.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.K. singer-songwriter Sophie Ellis-Bextor is coming off a year in which she felt \u201clike after you have a glass of champagne and you\u2019re a bit heady.\u201d After her 2001 disco-pop classic, \u201cMurder on the Dancefloor,\u201d was revived by its use in 2023 black comedy Saltburn, the song once again became a global smash, reaching the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1962223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[345969,309165,22008],"class_list":["post-1962222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-fall-music-preview","tag-genre-pop","tag-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Sophie-Ellis-Bextor-On-New-Album-Murder-on-the-Dancefloor.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}