I’ve really gotten into Sophie Ellis Bextor lately, which is kind of hard to do in America since most of her stuff is kind of difficult to get here. You can’t walk into the local Target/Barnes & Noble/Borders/Best Buy and expect to find her stuff, and iTunes only carries her new single with the Freemasons (“Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer”) and an abbreviated version of her 2nd album: it’s labeled as the “non-EU version” and has 10 tracks as opposed to the 12 + bonus hidden track the EU gets. Sophie herself allegedly called her label a bunch of “cheeky morons” in an interview for not giving her non-EU fans the full album.
Sophie’s music mixes pop, disco, new wave, and electronica with a distinctly British sense of humor. She comes off very much as a posh Donna Summer for the 2000s. Here are a few of her biggest songs:
“Murder On The Dancefloor”
“Get Over You”
“Catch You”
And covering classic disco:
Cher’s “Take Me Home”
Baccara’s “Yes Sir I Can Boogie”
