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Sophie is back after a 3-year break, during which time she had a baby boy, Sonny, with husband Richard (bassist in The Feeling)... She also wrote over 70 songs, whittled down enough to fill her new album Tripping The Light Fantastic with tracks which Sophie says are "an invitation to dance".She may indeed have written over 70 songs, but this isn't one of them, being penned by old hand Cathy Dennis and the producer Greg Kurstin. It seems to encapsulate a lot of what's disappointing about Ellis-Bextor's solo work, the sense that she's playing too much at being a pop star. Not that there's anything wrong with actually being a pop star but there's a tendency to sound like she feels it beneath her, as if it's expedient rather than whole-hearted. And in fairness to her, there are some lyrics it'd be hard not to sing with derision, all that stuff about hiding in coffee spoons and so forth.
Musically it works a little better than lyrically, with a catchy little intro but it never really goes anywhere. Like most of her career, it seems a wasted opportunity.
Also appearing on: Now 50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57
Available on: Trip The Light Fantastic
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