“Why break when you can pop?” Asks Sophie Ellis-Stextor Suggestive via social media to set up her eighth studio album perimenopop-and choose the only gurisable way to deal with this unbearable biological dilation of human dignity called “menopause”: “Menopause”: She laughs at one.
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Or better: SEB laughs with us, invites everyone to the big menopop party, because she can celebrate publicly, you know that at the latest after her lovable YouTube “Kitchen Disco” during pandemic. Because the female menopause is such an extremely unpopular topic in pop, the 46-year-old still places a few shoveling optimism and sexyness on their sound already produced for the wide world.
Better to dance a round
In the circles of the large discodive Kylie, Madonna and Dua Lipa, Sophie Ellis-Stextor is probably the most uncomplicated accompaniment for a dancing night: “Relentless Love” goes straight into the Ü40 club, nostalgic vibes through this track, in which Strictlydancing-Grooves from “Sweetest Caramel” and others Smalling is raved, including the house “button”, produced together with Jon Shape (Charli XCX) and Mnek, and “Stay on Me”, slippery, but do not become coarse strip club leg knockers.
This danger does not exist with Mrs. Bextor anyway, for that she is too friendly, funny, in a good mood – and, despite all happiness, radiates an indestructible dignity. You can see/hear “Glamorous” or “Diamond in the Dark”, which convey that good life continues beyond the 45. It becomes thoughtful in the final track “Don’t know what you’ve got ‘Til it’s gone” (no cover), but also not too much. Better to dance a round.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 10/2025.