"She is wearing a goldtrimmed, blusher-pink, kaftan-style caped dress and has a wide smudge of neon-blue eyeshadow streaked across her eyelids. She could have freshly twirled off the dancefloor at Studio 54. It is a strong look for a late afternoon chat in a quiet hotel, but then I remember that she has been at a photoshoot all day, and assume she must still be wearing one of the outfits. These are my own clothes, she says, as if that should have been perfectly obvious."
"As a title, Perimenopop is both silly and defiant. It came from a joke in the studio between Ellis-Bextor and her friend Hannah Robinson, who co-writes some of her songs. We're a similar age, she says, and so we were jokingly saying: oh, it's perimenopop. And we thought it was hilarious. It just didn't leave my head. It's a showy, attention-grabbing name. I think I'm in my sod-it era, really. What's the point of tiptoeing around?"
"During the Covid lockdowns in 2020, the pop star hosted a weekly Kitchen Disco, broadcast live on Instagram from her family home, with her husband, the musician Richard Jones, and with occasional cameos from her five sons. People must think she's pretty good at throwing a party. Well, I am capable, she says, drily. There will be a photo booth. Aptly, the bar already has a giant glitter ball hanging from the ceiling."
Sophie Ellis-Bextor adopts bold, disco-infused aesthetics, wearing glamorous, Studio 54–evocative outfits and vivid makeup. She is releasing a new album titled Perimenopop, which originated as a studio joke between her and co-writer Hannah Robinson and functions as a showy, attention-grabbing name. The album features collaborations, including Nile Rodgers on a track. During the 2020 Covid lockdowns she hosted a weekly Kitchen Disco livestream from her family home with her husband Richard Jones and occasional appearances by their five sons. She embraces party-hosting rituals, photo booths, and glitter balls while expressing a confident, "sod-it" approach to aging and creativity.
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