Recensione: SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR – “Songs From The Kitchen Disco”
In pieno lockdown, c’è chi nella propria cucina si è divertito a sfornare torte, focacce e timballi, e chi ha fatto dischi. Indovinate cosa ha fatto Sophie Ellis Bextor?
Il pavimento piastrellato si è trasformato per l’occasione nel più hot dei dancefloor, dal quale ha intrattenuto il suo pubblico – e soprattutto la sua famiglia, con ben 5 pargoli scatenati – con speciali sessioni canore su Instagram. Così è nato “Music from the Kitchen Disco”, il greatest hits di Sophie Ellis-Bextor farcito (concediamoci pure le metafore culinarie) di 20 canzoni riarrangiate in chiave disco-pop.
La resilienza è un piatto da servire caldo, freddo, tiepido e a tutte le ore del giorno, e ora più che mai ne abbiamo bisogno. Per questo l’uscita di un album così pieno di gioia e intriso di memorie felici è un vero toccasana in questo momento. Primo: perché con un pizzico di malinconia ci riporta ai bei tempi passati. Secondo, per ricordarci che anche se la riapertura delle discoteche si prospetta ancora molto lontana, ci si può arrangiare coi mezzi che si hanno. E scommetteteci: quando metterete su il nuovo album di Sophie Ellis Bextor, il vecchio lampadario di ceramica in un attimo diventerà una luce stroboscopica, il vostro grembiule si riempirà di paillettes e i fornelli diventeranno piatti da deejay. E lei, la regina, comparirà di verde vestita a cantare di fronte a voi, come ce la ricordiamo nel video di “Murder On The Dancefloor”.
Questo brano è solo uno dei successi che ritroveremo, e che ameremo come la prima volta. Assieme a vere e proprie chicche come “Crying At The Discoteque”, cover del brano degli Alcazar, e “Favourite Things”, una delle canzoni più famose del musical “Tutti Insieme Appassionatamente”, ascolteremo infatti i successi indimenticabili come “Take Me Home”, “Groovejet”, “Get Over You”. Non mancano però pezzi meno conosciuti ai più che questo Greatest Hits ci darà l’opportunità di “assaggiare”.
Io ho già la colonna sonora per il mio Capodanno in lockdown, grazie a Sophie!
SCORE: 7,50
TRE BRANI DA ASCOLTARE SUBITO:
Murder On A Dancefloor – Crying At The Discoteque – Young Blood
QUOTES:
The days
Are ghosts that pass right through us
In my eyes
You’re like an evergreen
Untouched
By the hours that fly around us
My love
Is that how you see me?
Are ghosts that pass right through us
In my eyes
You’re like an evergreen
Untouched
By the hours that fly around us
My love
Is that how you see me?
Remember when
Remember when we were the diamonds in the coal
Lovers know
There’s no age upon your soul
Remember when we were the diamonds in the coal
Lovers know
There’s no age upon your soul
It’s all okay, you give me young blood
It’s coursing through my veins, it’s real love
Here inside my heart it’s crystallised
Like it’s framed in time and never tainted
It’s coursing through my veins, it’s real love
Here inside my heart it’s crystallised
Like it’s framed in time and never tainted
Yeah, it’s alright, you give me young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There’ll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There’ll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood
Somehow
I never saw it coming
I’m caught
And it has set me free
I never saw it coming
I’m caught
And it has set me free
Remember when
Remember when we used to talk of growing old
Lovers know
There’s no age upon your soul
Remember when we used to talk of growing old
Lovers know
There’s no age upon your soul
Yeah, it’s okay, you give me young blood
It’s coursing through my veins, it’s real love
Here inside my heart it’s crystallised
Like it’s framed in time and never tainted
It’s coursing through my veins, it’s real love
Here inside my heart it’s crystallised
Like it’s framed in time and never tainted
Yeah, it’s alright, you give me young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There’ll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There’ll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood
Oh
On and on you give me young blood
It’s coursing through my veins, it’s real love
And here inside my heart it’s crystallised
Just like it’s framed in time and never tainted
It’s coursing through my veins, it’s real love
And here inside my heart it’s crystallised
Just like it’s framed in time and never tainted
Yeah, it’s alright, you give me young blood
Before the world I may be old enough
There’ll be a day to take the best of us
Before the world I may be old enough
There’ll be a day to take the best of us
But till then we have young blood
TRACKLIST
1. Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)
2. Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me)
3. Murder On The Dancefloor
4. Get Over You
5. Music Gets The Best Of Me
6. Mixed Up World
7. Catch You
8. Me And My Imagination
9. Today The Sun’s On Us
10. Bittersweet
11. Starlight
12. Not Givin Up On Love (feat. Armin Van Buuren)
13. Heartbreak (Make Me Dancer) (feat. Freemasons)
14. Young Blood
15. True Faith (BBC Session)
16. Do You Remember The First Time (Live)
17. Come With Us
18. Wild Forever
19. Crying at The Discoteque
20. My Favourite Things
DISCOGRAFIA
2001- Read My Lips
2oo3 – Shoot From The Hips
2007 – Trip The Light Fantastic
2011 – Make A Scene
2014 – Wanderlust
2016 – Familia
2020 – Music From The Kitchen Floor
IL VIDEO
WEB & SOCIAL
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