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If ever there was a need to re-establish a pop sensation, then Ellis-Bextor is given the chance on HANA and has more than a handful of tracks which bring her to the centre of attention once more, and deservedly so. And I feel like that about Richard and I can see he feels like that about me, but I just didn’t have that to go home to then [with the ex]. The album reached number 19 on the UK charts and was certified silver by the BPI for shipments of 60,000. Once you get to the back half of the record, it’s clear that Ellis-Bextor is starting to run out of ideas and that the experience is largely front-loaded; the synths begin to sound the same, the beats become too repetitive, and even the introspective lyrics begin to grate after some time. The thing that’s special about Glastonbury is that everybody brings their A-game when they go on stage,” she says, letting out a squeal.
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Everything Is Sweet" was described as having a "clipped synth melancholia" and was noted for its Human League influence. And my sister was born 10 weeks early when I was 11, so I’d already seen a happy ending, so I wasn’t too – I was probably quite naïve – but I wasn’t too worried about Sonny. SoulNation mixes best from Home and Abroad Archived 3 December 2011 at the Wayback Machine Jakarta Globe. In December 2022, Ellis-Bextor partnered with Vodafone to unveil its Pro II Broadband during a special Christmas concert in London.The playful track “We’ve Been Watching You” imagines that aliens have been observing the human race, and decide to rescue us from Earth, a planet that Ellis-Bextor says has gone a bit “wonky” these past few years. Her husband – The Feeling bassist Richard Jones – could occasionally be spotted dancing around in a horse mask. I shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds me because I’ve got a really lovely summer, but I’ve noticed sometimes that I’m the only woman, or there’s just not that many; I’ve definitely been aware of it, and it is across the board, it’s not just the big [festivals].
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When you’re not hearing the bouncy, carefree beats and melodies that make up its core, you’ll often be met with dramatic, sweeping arrangements that emphasize those pensive vibes I’m referring to. Premiered on Zoe Ball’s Breakfast show on BBC Radio 2, new single ‘Breaking The Circle’ follows Sophie’s Radio 2 A-Listed single ‘Hypnotized’ with Wuh Oh last year (currently at over 1. Trading in her Flamenca-focused records of the last few years for the happiness of HANA , Sophie Ellis-Bextor extracts herself from her kitchen disco and lays down some wider beats.She worked with Calvin Harris, Richard X, Dimitri Tikovoi, Hannah Robinson, Metronomy, [38] and Liam Howe from the Sneaker Pimps. And the older I get, the more it moves me that I am given space [in this industry] because there’s so much out there. He’d written about how they hadn’t let his diagnoses stop anything, and they’d drunk the best wines and they’d burned all the fancy candles and they’d travelled,” says Ellis-Bextor, “and he wrote, ‘And we laughed and loved until the wheels fell off, and it all flew by at lightning speed. a b c "Albums: New music from Foo Fighters, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Rufus Wainwright and Noel Gallagher".
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She wrote about the abusive relationship in her memoir, she says, “because at the time there was a lot of stuff that I thought was fine and it just wasn’t fine.When Richard and I got together and found out we were having a baby, it already felt very high drama and I was also going through some difficult issues with my previous manager,” she says.
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The lead single "Breaking the Circle" is an "anthemic" song that features a house piano and sees Ellis-Bextor dreaming of going "into the light of the great unknown". During the podcast Sophie discussed her book, her favourite London restaurants, and the similarities between music and food. Her rework of Cher's " Take Me Home" reached number two, as did " Murder on the Dancefloor", which became Ellis-Bextor's biggest single and was on charts for twenty-three weeks. HANA will follow Ellis-Bextor's 2016 album Familia, and was created alongside frequent collaborator Ed Harcourt. Ellis-Bextor met her future husband, the Feeling bassist Richard Jones, when he auditioned for her tour band in 2002.The Song Diaries first single "Love Is You", a disco track originally performed by Carol Williams, which is sampled on her early hit Groovejet, was released in August 2018. In June 2009, Ellis-Bextor was featured on the Freemasons single " Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)", which reached number 13 in the UK. Her fifth studio album, Wanderlust (2014), peaked at number four becoming her highest-charting album since Read My Lips.