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I think it's a wonderful record. It sounds very 'Duran Duran', but that's fine.
The thing I don't understand is why it's getting virtually no airplay. Radio 2's Ken Bruce just had it as his single of the week but it's got virtually no airplay on the station outside of that slot other than the long overnight show and one early Sunday religious show. It's like the station doesn't want to play it at all but for some reason has made it their record of the week. Most of Ken Bruce's records of the week get heavy airplay on other shows. I don't believe it's been played once on Chris Evans's breakfast show or Steve Wright in the Afternoon. And other stations seem to be ignoring it too. Is it because of her English singing accent (like Alison Moyet), because they have something against her personally or because the music industry interprets the lyrics as as slight against them? Either way, it's a fantastic single and deserves to get lots of airplay and do much better in the charts. |
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I like it and I've pre-ordered her new album. Shame she's not more popular as she's brilliant. She never screams or sings shouty ballads. Murder On The Dancefloor was the first SEB song I ever heard.
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I love it. So catchy. She seems to have gone back to her dancier pop sound which she moved away from on her last album Wanderlust. I really love Wanderlust and think it's a shame she didn't have more success with it. It's such a good album. I've always liked Sophie since her days with her old band theaudience in the late 90's. I went to see them a few times in concert and they were so good. I think their indie pop/rock sound that they had was perfect for Sophie's voice, more than the dance pop she tends to do as a solo artist, really. I think her Wanderlust album had a closer sound, on some of the tracks, to the stuff she did with theaudience. It's a shame they never officially released their 2nd album as it's really good. Sophie has such a distinctive voice. A voice you instantly recognise before it's been announced who it is on the radio. That seems to be a rarity today, with so many pop, dance or r'n'b singers all sounding indistinguishable from each other.
Anyway, I hope Sophie does well with her new single and album. My fave solo Sophie single is still Catch You. That's such a brilliant song. Btw, with her new single, am I the only one who thinks the guitar riff at the intro and running through it sounds like Electric Six?!
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I love Sophie. Very underrated. Her last album Wanderlust was a revelation and proved she can do more than just dance stuff. I am looking forward to this new era and have it in my wish list.
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I really love Wanderlust and think it's a shame she didn't have more success with it.
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Wanderlust debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number four with 10,844 copies sold in its first week, becoming Ellis-Bextor's highest-charting solo album since 2001's Read My Lips, which peaked at number two. The following week, it fell to number five with sales of 8,520 copies. The album slipped to number nine in its third week, selling 7,231 copies. The album now has the second-longest chart run of any Sophie Ellis-Bextor album (after Read My Lips), having spent fourteen consecutive weeks in the top 75 as of 27 April 2014. It was awarded a Silver certification by the BPI after selling 60,000 copies in the UK.
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60,000 sales for an album is really poor! It deserved to sell far more than that, it's such a good album. I guess in this day and age though that probably is a good amount to sell but it's still a measly amount. A shame that so much rubbish sells miles more than that though. I mean the likes of Bieber, Drake, etc.
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A shame that so much rubbish sells miles more than that though. I mean the likes of Bieber, Drake, etc.
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