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The UK #2’s of the 2000’s Rate: COMPLETE!
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Clearly our rate had a major impact on the pop scene
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Collaboration with Toni Braxton and Vanessa Amorosi confirmed?
Are you trying to kill me?!
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In light of recent world events I thought it would be fun to revisit this elimination
Good news! We’re heading into the range of 9+ scores.
Bad news: I know I know I know I know I know I know I know this elimination will make many of you want to burn this goddamn rate down right now.
Average: 9.007
High Score: 11 x 1 (@dancingwithmyself), 10 x 18 (@berserkboi, @CasuallyCrazed, @DJHazey, @iheartpoptarts, @Island, @japanbonustrack, @KingBruno, @londonrain, @phily693, @Rei Ayanami, @Remorque, @Riiiiiiiii, @Robert, @Rogue, @Sally_Harper, @soratami, @SuperNerd, @Untouchable Ace)
Low Score: 2 x 1 (@Blond)
Second Place Predictor: 7 (@berserkboi, @dancingwithmyself, @Ironheade, @Island, @japanbonustrack, @kermit_the_frog, @soratami)
I’m not sure if we should be GLORIFYING crime, Sophie! You know that people always want to do what you tell them not to do... so let’s see, we’re NOT supposed to kill the groove and we’re NOT supposed to steal the moves? Now I absolutely will try to do those things!!! And you say “If you think you’re getting away, I will prove you wrong!” Ummmm that’s basically imprisoning someone. “GONNA BURN THIS GODDAMN HOUSE RIGHT DOWN?!?!” Actual pyromaniac much!?!? And I thought this BEFORE I saw the video and realized that I would never again be able to look at a pad of butter the same way.
By the way, if Gregg Alexander could co-write a song like this, I’m a little peeved that the New Radicals never continued onward, because I would have been here for a male-vocaled disco-lite EP at least. But anyway, his work here with Sophie brought her to the top 20 in 20 countries.
Becky Stefani on Drowned in Sound wrote: Tie me down and strangle me with a feather boa if this isn’t the best pop song since Diana Ross took off her diamond kitten heels and hung up her ball gown for the last time! These 3 minutes of glitter soaked disco boogie capture that WONDERFUL feeling of being in a nightclub at midnight, with a ridiculously expensive cocktail in your hand, stumbling onto the dance floor to bop and twirl to your favourite 80s hits. This song could have been written in any of the past 3 decades and that’s part of its charm. Craftily, it manages to sound retro whilst being utterly, defiantly, modern. It’s beside the point that Sophie Ellis-Bextor is the coolest pop girl around at the moment. You get the impression that she doesn’t really give a damn – with a raised eyebrow and her tongue firmly in her cheek, she’s somehow maintained that indie cred that Posh Spice and Kylie would KILL for. And STILL managed to nab the sky-scraping chart positions! This is, frankly, tastier than Tim Wheeler dipped in chocolate and laid out on a bed of rose petals. Buy it, steal it, make it yours!
NME described “Murder On The Dancefloor” as “a song with its heart in the discotheques of the 1970s. Not, though, the exclusivity of Studio 54, more the memory of Camber Sands and the first stirrings of lust under an irresponsibly used strobe light.”
The Guardian wrote: Sophie Ellis-Bextor disentangled herself from the indie scene and became a dance diva, adding her distracted vocals and her own lyrics to Spiller’s Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love). The biggest-selling record of last year, Groovejet propelled Ellis-Bextor on to the road to pop glory. She has travelled well, engaging in chart fights and personal affronts with Posh Spice while pleasing the tabloids with her long legs and anecdotes about her Blue Peter presenter mum. Sophie Ellis-Bextor is a bona-fide pop star. Except, on the evidence of this debut [album], she isn’t. Just as she has neglected to undergo the ritual embarrassment involved in making it big, Ellis-Bextor has refused to produce the kind of Saturday-night-out-with-the-girls pop you’d imagine Read My Lips would embrace. Instead this is a collection of 1970s disco, 1980s electronica and undefinable drama that, like a rabid dog, should be approached with fascination but extreme caution… When Ellis Bextor lets herself go a bit, she shines…Better still is the disco groove of Murder on the Dancefloor, the closest thing to Groovejet by several miles. Overlook the unnecessary 1970s guitar doodlings and this catchy floor-filler is great: Ellis-Bextor is almost singing with a smile, though that renders her threat to “burn this goddamn house right down” completely innocuous.
@londonrain – 10 – What a song. What a video. Sophie’s delivery is perfect for this song and it really shows.
@PushyBakerFriend – 8.5 – One of those songs everyone talks about (on this forum) but I’d never heard before this rate.
@KingBruno – 10 – I listened to Read My Lips once and I must say that there was no single song that came even close to equal this glittering culmination – that bass alone exterminates.
@Rei Ayanami – 10 – I’ve seriously slept on this woman. She seems to have so many wonderful songs.
@DJHazey – 10 – Definitely an 11 contender. I remember I hadn’t even been on this forum for a year and Island and I kind of dove into her music at the same time (I think he was bit ahead of me) and this was the first song I ever heard. I didn’t even know who she was before that day and EVERYTHING changed. I was as obsessed with her discography for a while as I was when I dove in ABBA last year.
@Untouchable Ace – 10 – She should have stormed America as well with this, It was so fresh, good and British. Pop needed this.
@berserkboi – 10 – Classic through & through
@iheartpoptarts – 10 – Best most violent pop bop.
@phily693 – 10 – An absolute stomper of a pop song with a video to match. Truly iconic! I’ve never really noticed the strings too much before but what a fantastic discovery.
@əʊæ – 8 – What a classic.
@Mike – 6 – Beautifully self–aware video – as if Sophie could ever win a dance contest by honest means, God love her – but the song never did it for me.
@Empty Shoebox – 9 – I’m not sure exactly what’s missing from this song that would make it a ten, but it just feels like it’s on a slightly lower level than the ones I have tenned.
@Blond – 2 – I don’t understand the Sophie Ellis-Bextor appeal and I know that makes me a minority as a pop loving gay.
@Sprockrooster – 9 – This is basically a 10 with that video, but it wore off a bit in time.
@Sally_Harper – 10 – I’m surprised at how well this has held up. WHAT A TUNE.
@Rogue – 10 – God what a classic. I cannot help but do the stamp from the video whenever I hear it.
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor – “Murder On The Dancefloor”
Peaked at #2 on: 15/12/01
Held off from #1 by: Daniel Bedingfield – “Gotta Get Thru This”
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For anyone stumbling back into this thread, I’m currently hosting a rate of the #11 singles from the same time period - welcome to join us there if you haven’t already!
And big congratulations to Miss Sophie for reaching #2 on the chart again this week!!
And big congratulations to Miss Sophie for reaching #2 on the chart again this week!!