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‘It’s all magic’: Sophie Ellis-Bextor back at No 2 after 20 years with Murder on the Dancefloor
In 2001, the song reached No 2. As it gets there again – thanks to hit film Saltburn and the power of Gen-Z and TikTok – the singer talks about privilege, second chances and Liam Gallagher dancing in the nude
Critic Simran Hans was one of many to pan the film, and theorised that its brash music-video-style set-pieces, such as Oliver’s naked dance, have a “screen-shottable, meme-able quality, to the point where it actually works better out of context” – to wit, Saltburn-themed videos have accumulated 4bn views on TikTok. It was quite a strange juxtaposition but that’s probably not that unusual in some ways – if you’re in a dynamic that’s unhealthy, and suddenly your work is making you more visible, then the flip of that is the person who doesn’t really like that trying to bring you down a bit more when you’re home.” Months after the song’s release, Ellis-Bextor met her husband, Richard Jones, bassist with pop-rock band the Feeling. In 2000, she co-wrote and sang Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love), based on a track by Italian DJ Spiller, which triumphed in a tabloid-hyped chart battle with Victoria Beckham’s debut solo single that Ellis-Bextor weathered gamely, making one public appearance in a T-shirt that read “Peckham”.
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