Sophie Ellis-Bextor was satisfied to let Homicide on the Dancefloor be used within the closing scene of Saltburn when she found Barry Keoghan could be dancing bare to her hit single.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The 2001 disco pop monitor soundtracks Keoghan’s nude dance as his character Oliver Fast by means of the Saltburn property in Emerald Fennell’s Golden Globe nominated 2023 film.
Sophie, 46, was thrilled when she came upon the filmmaker needed to license her track and had no hesitation saying sure when she came upon it will be the music to such a memorable second.
Chatting with Instagram and TikTok creator Luke Hamnett on episode 4 of BRITs podcast The Crimson Carpet Therapy – On The Highway introduced by Mastercard, she mentioned: “I knew about Emerald. I by no means met her, however I used to be considering, what a deal with you wish to use my track. After which I may see this little synopsis that’d be somebody bare. I used to be like, rely me in, bought to see that.”
Sophie additionally loves the truth that Saltburn villain Oliver in the end comes out on high within the comedy thriller.
She added: “I believe there’s a little darkish triumph within the baddie popping out on high, that is clearly baked into the veins of Homicide on the Dancefloor.”
Because of the movie’s launch in 2023, the Groovejet hitmaker has loved a large profession renaissance and is driving the wave of Homicide on the Dancefloor’s revival with new music and renewed momentum.
In September, Sophie launched her eighth album Perimenopop and she or he says the sound of the album goes proper again to the model of Homicide on the Dancefloor.
She mentioned: “It is disco pop. It is optimistic. It sums up my relationship with pop music, truly. It is like a bit of audio tonic to make you are feeling a bit higher. As a result of I had this resurgence with Homicide on the Dancefloor, it was the primary time I used to be considering again to once I began with it and seeing the video and the art work and all that form of factor. And calling the album Perimenopop was a extremely superb option to liberate me from any form of comparability with that as a result of it form of put entrance and centre the truth that that is not me anymore. And I did not actually realise that is what I used to be doing with the title till I used to be practically releasing it. And I felt like, God, I really feel actually free. I really feel like I’m precisely who I’m proper now.”
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