Stop the goddamn, motherfucking presses

Two amazing things happened today:

1. We realized that, sometime in the recent past, Sophie Ellis-Bextor performed a pop show dressed as a rabbit and

2. Sophie released two new songs via her MySpace (HerSpace?). Now, if you've been keeping up on All Things Sophie (probably not on this web site as we only update once every two weeks, if you're lucky) you'll know that she was supposed to release a Great Hits compilation, only for the world at large, in an unprecendented display of good judgment, realized that La Bex is one of the most consistently amazing pop ladies of our time and deserves a new album full of awesome songs. Good call, World At Large.

In normal circumstances we'd lament someone (kind of) re-releasing "Off and On", a track that California Roisin Murphy already trashed and has been on the Internet since approx. the fall of Rome (and we don't mean central Italy circa September 2007, arewerite), but beggars can't be choosers, and we'll take new Sophie tracks where we can get them (although if someone makes her record a Lil Chris cover we're calling it quits).

The other song is called "Heartbreak Make Me a Dancer" (of course it is...) which doesn't really go out of its way to break the straight 206 (approximate) singles Sophie has released featuring the themes of love, dancing, or some variation thereof. For some reason we picture Sophie singing this song in the studio strapped to a chair while Debbie Harry in Hairspray screams: "COME ON NOW! ONE-TWO CHA CHA CHA! ONE-TWO CHA CHA CHA!"

Yes, clearly we're really that gay.

Could someone please send a copy of SingStar to the usual address

Thanks.

OH GOOD LORD

SOMEONE HAS POSTED THE CALVIN HARRIS-PRODUCED ROISIN MURPHY TRACK THAT GOT CUT FROM OVERPOWERED ON YOUTUBE.

It's called "Off & On" and it sounds like a CALVIN HARRIS-PRODUCED ROISIN MURPHY TRACK THAT GOT CUT FROM OVERPOWERED. Fucking amazing.

The embedding feature has been "disabled by request" but surely this person knows of all the online video converters that exist to rip audio from YouTube. So if an MP3 surfaces in the NEAR FUTURE, DO NOT BLAME US IF IT GETS POSTED.

Anyway.

The video comes with this description, which breaks our OMGometer through the roof:

Roisin recorded both this track with Calvin Harris and Cathy Dennis last year.

It was recorded during sessions for the "Overpowered" album but was not used as Roisin did not like the production style.

She also recorded another track with them entitled "Don't Let It Go To Your Head Boy" (during the same sessions), it was also rejected for the same reasons.

The vocal has since been re-recorded by Sophie Ellis-Bextor for potential inclusion on her forthcoming "Greatest Hits" Album.

However, Sophie has since began working in the studio on other material with The Freemasons and their creative partnership has proven to have been more fruitful and creatively inspiring than either party originally imagined, so casting the inclusion of this track on Sophie's "Greatest Hits", in doubt.

(DO NOT REQUEST AN MP3, SUCH REQUESTS WILL BE IGNORED OUT OF (Sniiip! Sniiiiiiiip!)

SOPHIE ELLIS-FUCKING-BEXTOR. We feel blessed by the power of Jesus. Perhaps 2008 won't be that bad after all.

Here's the video.

Roisin Murphy - Off & On (Produced by Calvin Harris) [via YouTube]

Just for the record, we have changed our minds about the current Sophie Ellis-Bextor single

It's goddamn fucking amazing.

Also there's a really good remix version bouncing around the internet, and it's even better.



And here's a live version, just to keep you interested.



Brilliant.

Sorry for all the YouTube Links

...but they just added a feature where you can subscribe to tags (we. KNOW) so we're going a bit insane at the moment.

And it's beena while since we posted about Her Almighty Lady the Duchess of Bextor Gardens. We're actually not really huge fans of her current single "Today the Sun is On Us", but it's an OK pop song and Sophie looks cute in her little dress, so here she is performing it on British morning "programme" GMTV.



We have no idea when this is from, but we're assuming it's fairly recent, it being the new single an all. Thus is the danger of YouTube "research".

A post featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor, burglary and cats

HRH Lady Ellis-Bextor has a new single coming out, it's called "Today The Sun Is On Us" (don't forget the SPF +40!) and it's not quite as good as "Catch You" or "Me and My Imagination", but it's the Third Single so I suppose she had to go for a Slow One. All this is pretty irrelevant when the video is taken in account, which is below for your viewing pleasure.



Oh yes. That's right. Best pop video fo the year. It's as if God himself witnessed the whole "Song 4 Mutya" "dilemma" and restored the pop video balance in the universe. Numerical number-points:

1. This video cements our theory that anyone can look highly stylish and awesome with a wavy 1930's hairstyle.

2. We also hate it when people tell you to "get off the computer" because they "have things to do" when "things" merely references them checking their gmail and playing the new version of Warbears :(

3. SOPHIE SINGING IN A SHOWER. Along with Roisin singing on the toilet in her new video, there is clearly a trend emerging of Powerful Pop Ladies performing in bathrooms and bathroom-like areas. Next: Tahita from New Young Pony Club brushing her teeth? It's not impossible.

4. Showers are often wet, and a wet Ellis-Bextor resembles a cat even more than a dry Ellis-Bextor. Figure a:



Uncanny.

5. Spoiler alert: at the end of the video SHE IS A CAT BURGLAR. Seriously, M. Night Shyamalan needs to get on this shit because WHAT A TWIST.

6. With all this talk of cats, a venture into lolcatdom is, of course, inevitable. We present to you lolsophie:


We love this bitch. So much. Special shout out to Pink Ring for the heads up!

Here's some SEB to start your weekend off right

HRH The Duchess D'Bextorvilles has been updating her site full of tour "pics" and other Fantastic goodies. It's well worth a gander, and frankly we just really needed to post something out her.

Here's SEB singing some shit for a fan.



Regal. Check out more of Sophie's candid moments at her official Web site.

In Which A New Hyperbolic Word Enters Our Lexicon Forever

As pop music journalists (or some dubious variations thereof) we possess, at our "fingertips", an arsenal of hyperbolic vocabulary fit for an issue of Smash Hits circa 1989. We often use, and misuse, words and phrases such as "amazing", "awesome", "brilliant", "fucking brilliant", "mind-blowing", etc etc. One word, however, is rarely used on DN, but given what we are about to demonstrate with our astute BLOGGING, its position in our lexicon is about to change, forever.

The word at hand is: "FANTASTIC".

First we have Dame* Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Trip the Light Fantastic, which will probably never be released in this Land of the Free Home of the Brave, but can we just say thank God for amazon.co.uk. The masterful first single, "Catch You", has been on heavy rotation since somewhere slightly before the Fall of Pompeii, and isn't going anywhere soon. It's sex, pop, love, guitars and synths devoid of all fucking-around and compressed into the Best Song Ever About Stalking A Man--an emotional depth we have all experienced at one point or another. Thus, readers, it is UNIVERSAL. And who are we to question The Universe. We ask you.

Here's the video. YES, AGAIN. If you don't like it go read some other blog where they talk freely of Sufjan Stevens and other Arcade Fires.



Another pop band (and not a new rave band as Klaxons would like you to believe) are making good use of the word "fantastic" this summer-- and of course we are referring to sexy kittens (yes, even the guys) New Young Pony Club, and their album Fantastic Playroom (DO YOU GET IT NOW?). We went through a phase, about 2 years ago (estimate) where we LOVED NYPC and their tune "Ice Cream", then we saw them live in 2006 and enjoyed it dare we say even profusely, then lost all interest whatsoever and moved on to liking Sexual Earthquake in Kobe instead. But our faith in Tahita Young Pony and co. has been rekindled with the shitloads of songs that have been leaked from Plyaroom, notably "Hiding On The Staircase" which we can't be bothered to upload to YouSendIt, so you'll have to take our "word" for it, or at least type into the Hype Machine.

This is the video for "The Bomb".



So, in conclusion, we'll be using the word "fantastic" much more as of this summer, because if two of the best pop records of the year are badgering it left and right, we believe that more people should be doing just the same. Fantastic, then.

*Not a real Dame.

Bex appeal

Sigh. Still in love. Last week, Fluxblog posted an MP3 of the aformentioned awesome-fest that is the new SEB single. Enjoy.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - "Catch You"

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You

Yes! The strong-jawed one is back! We totally thought everyone had forgotten about poor Sophie Ellis-Bextor after the criminally overlooked pop epic that was Read My Lips in 2002 (never released Stateside we believe), and her second album hardly made a blip on anybody's radar. BUT SHE IS BACK.



The brilliance which you have just witnessed is "Catch You", SEB's new U.K. single. We know, OMG. The hair! The dress! Venice! So gay and awesome.

Though it's no "Murder on the Dancefloor".

Kind of makes you go back to the glory days of reading about Theaudience in Smash Hits... sigh.