Having one of your songs used in a hit film or TV show can do wonders for an artist’s profile - just ask Kate Bush - and the latest to reap the benefits of syndication is Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Her 2001 hit Murder On The Dancefloor has reached a new audience and landed back in the UK Top 10 thanks to its inclusion in Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s darkly comic and meme-friendly social satire.
The song was co-written with Gregg Alexander, a dominant presence on the early ‘00s pop scene. Having made his mark with New Radicals (You Get What You Give, Someday We’ll Know) in the late ‘90s, Alexander went on to write or co-write hits for the likes of Santana (The Game Of Love), Ronan Keating (Life Is a Rollercoaster) and, of course, Ellis-Bextor.
