Sophie Ellis-Bextor.

[Mikal]

I'm a little upset about the songtitles to be honest. What happened to the good old days of extra long titles (I Am Not Good At Not Getting What I Want)

But when the song titles were best the songs themselves sucked. The only good songs on Shoot were the singles!

[bichard]

I'm a little upset about the songtitles to be honest. What happened to the good old days of extra long titles (I Am Not Good At Not Getting What I Want)

But when the song titles were best the songs themselves sucked. The only good songs on Shoot were the singles!

Awwww...Another Day was great too!!! Mind you, wasn't that mooted as third single before she had dirty breeder sex and got herself impregnated...?

[SloMover]

Party In My Head is one of my favourite Sophie tracks. I wish they kept the "gave the doorman ecstacy" line, though.

[churno]

Autumn is such a long wait. I hope I get to interview her soon...

[kaushik]

But when the song titles were best the songs themselves sucked. The only good songs on Shoot were the singles!

What? No! The singles were just alright. The Walls Keep Saying Your Name, Love It Is Love, You Get Yours, Party In My Head, Another Day, Hello Hello were beautiful... you don't think so?

Autumn is such a long wait. I hope I get to interview her soon...

are you a part of the media? could we all submit questions so you could ask things that we all want to know.. Nick Levine and Tom Mansell (both from Digital Spy) did a great job with the interview. The official catch up sucked!

[ChristopherP]

The Shoot From The Hip singles were extremely weak, both were poor man's versions of Music Gets The Best Of Me.

Some of the album tracks, however, were excellent - Hello Hello, Nowhere Without You, Making Music, IANGANGWIW (yeh, I know I'm supposed to use the full name but it looks better this way!) and The Walls Keep Saying Your Name!

[Mogwellian]

I bet sophie finds it so hard to listen to Shoot from the Hip; which is annoying because its such a sweet little album.

God, I remember the winter where that and Body Language came out. Those were the days!

[churno]

Yeah feel free to suggest some questions, but I can't ask anything too specific or technical because the general public aren't interested!

Also, I don't actually have anything confirmed!

[Mikal]

But when the song titles were best the songs themselves sucked. The only good songs on Shoot were the singles!

What? No! The singles were just alright. The Walls Keep Saying Your Name, Love It Is Love, You Get Yours, Party In My Head, Another Day, Hello Hello were beautiful... you don't think so?

Nope! Every album track (with the possible exception of the slightly sickly Party In My Head) was just completely flat. Where were the melodies? Where was the joy?!

[magictreehouse]

But when the song titles were best the songs themselves sucked. The only good songs on Shoot were the singles!

What? No! The singles were just alright. The Walls Keep Saying Your Name, Love It Is Love, You Get Yours, Party In My Head, Another Day, Hello Hello were beautiful... you don't think so?

Nope! Every album track (with the possible exception of the slightly sickly Party In My Head) was just completely flat. Where were the melodies? Where was the joy?!

I still maintain that Shoot From The Hip is the only time that Sophie's got it spot on. The songs fit her voice so well rather than the obvious (and in my opinion flat) electro disco of the follow up.

[ChristopherP]

But when the song titles were best the songs themselves sucked. The only good songs on Shoot were the singles!

What? No! The singles were just alright. The Walls Keep Saying Your Name, Love It Is Love, You Get Yours, Party In My Head, Another Day, Hello Hello were beautiful... you don't think so?

Nope! Every album track (with the possible exception of the slightly sickly Party In My Head) was just completely flat. Where were the melodies? Where was the joy?!

I still maintain that Shoot From The Hip is the only time that Sophie's got it spot on. The songs fit her voice so well rather than the obvious (and in my opinion flat) electro disco of the follow up.

Exactly. Shoot From The Hip is pure Sophie. Trip The Light Fantastic is a mish-mash of everything that just like Kylie's X doesn't work and sound good together.

All the SFTH album tracks are melodic enough and joy? I hardly think joy is an integral element of a good song. Melancholic songs (and that's what SFTH mostly consists of) can be just as good, if not better. The last minute of Hello Hello is probably my favourite part of Sophie's three albums.

[magictreehouse]

All the SFTH album tracks are melodic enough and joy? I hardly think joy is an integral element of a good song. Melancholic songs (and that's what SFTH mostly consists of) can be just as good, if not better. The last minute of Hello Hello is probably my favourite part of Sophie's three albums.

My favourite part is the very beginning of Making Music. That's joy, right there. I might put this album when I get home, it's been ages since I've listened to it.

[Mikal]

All the SFTH album tracks are melodic enough and joy? I hardly think joy is an integral element of a good song. Melancholic songs (and that's what SFTH mostly consists of) can be just as good, if not better. The last minute of Hello Hello is probably my favourite part of Sophie's three albums.

My favourite part is the very beginning of Making Music. That's joy, right there. I might put this album when I get home, it's been ages since I've listened to it.

I don't require you to agree that joy is an integral part of a good song (Christopher) because that isn't what I was saying at all. However Sophie's voice does lend itself to naturally to feel-good songs and only three or four cuts from Shoot actually represented that in my view. The rest is just very drab, full of non-event choruses and a total lack of memorable melodies. But that's just my opinion and I only hold it so strongly because I love both Read My Lips and Trip The Light and think she's capable of much better than Shoot.

And I can't really agree that the start (or any other part) of Making Music is joyful. It's robotic and mechanical. It so happens that that's my favourite album track (on Shoot) though because the chorus is really engaging and mysterious, so I don't need her songs to be joyful. It's just that most of her best ones are. (And I do find the 'making music by numbers' lyric to be quite apt in the context of that album!).

[ChristopherP]

I'm really going to have to disagree with you once again. If there is a popstar whose voice and overall style of singing does not fit feel-good joyous pop songs it definitely is Sophie...

[Mogwellian]

I'm really going to have to disagree with you once again. If there is a popstar whose voice and overall style of singing does not fit feel-good joyous pop songs it definitely is Sophie...

Sophie is the Sarah Nixey of contemporary pop music. But obviously better.

The first moments of Making Music are sublime, I agree completely. The lyrics are some of her best :

"Equations such as this are a pleasure to behold. You and me mathematically add up, or so I'm told."

Incredible!

[Mikal]

I'm really going to have to disagree with you once again. If there is a popstar whose voice and overall style of singing does not fit feel-good joyous pop songs it definitely is Sophie...

Haha! How odd that we disagree so strongly on Sophie when usually I find that I agree with your sentiments on pop. But I think her voice excels on feel-good stuff - Murder, Music Gets The Best Of Me, Everything Falls Into Place, Love Is Here etc.

[kaushik]

Mr. PJ, could you upload a snippet of the album version of the song... PLEASE!?

[dominic spez]

We can pretty much guess the tracklist for the album...

Bittersweet
Heartbreak
Off & On
Calling It Love
Starlight
Magic
Revolution
Sophia Loren
Not Giving Up On Love
Scene

And then 2 more... Songs from Liam Howe and Dimitri, I'm sure.

[kaushik]

We can pretty much guess the tracklist for the album...

Bittersweet
Heartbreak
Off & On
Calling It Love
Starlight
Magic
Revolution
Sophia Loren
Not Giving Up On Love
Scene

And then 2 more... Songs from Liam Howe and Dimitri, I'm sure.

Magic is really old. I doubt if that will be on the album. It's probably going to be this:

Bittersweet
Heartbreak
Calling It Love
Starlight
Dial My Number (seems like the stakler song - Liam Howe)
Revolution
Sophia Loren
Not Giving Up On Love
Scene
10
11
12
bonus track
bonus track

[dominic spez]

We can pretty much guess the tracklist for the album...

Bittersweet
Heartbreak
Off & On
Calling It Love
Starlight
Magic
Revolution
Sophia Loren
Not Giving Up On Love
Scene

And then 2 more... Songs from Liam Howe and Dimitri, I'm sure.

Magic is really old. I doubt if that will be on the album. It's probably going to be this:

Bittersweet
Heartbreak
Calling It Love
Starlight
Dial My Number (seems like the stakler song - Liam Howe)
Revolution
Sophia Loren
Not Giving Up On Love
Scene
10
11
12
bonus track
bonus track

Hmmm well Richard X seems to think 'Magic' will be on the album.

[ridesebastian!]

I believe Magic will be on the album. And for what I've heard it might be the best song in there...

[Mikal]

I highly doubt Sophia Loren will be on the album. I don't know why, it just seemed poppy (and crap) and she's saying they're going in a dancier direction.

[passionoia]

We can pretty much guess the tracklist for the album...

Bittersweet
Heartbreak
Off & On
Calling It Love
Starlight
Magic
Revolution
Sophia Loren
Not Giving Up On Love
Scene

And then 2 more... Songs from Liam Howe and Dimitri, I'm sure.

Pascal Gabriel has got to have at least one song on there. It's law isn't it for pop chicks nowadays?

[wodnym]

I highly doubt Sophia Loren will be on the album. I don't know why, it just seemed poppy (and crap) and she's saying they're going in a dancier direction.

B-side please.

[kaushik]

I highly doubt Sophia Loren will be on the album. I don't know why, it just seemed poppy (and crap) and she's saying they're going in a dancier direction.

B-side please.

no no it should be on the album. it was single material... i'm sure Starlight isn't Dancy. And there will be a ballad. Sophia Loren will be fine on the album. Sophie will work a flow for the tracks