Baftas 2024: Watch Sophie Ellis-Bextor perform ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’
Musician Sophie Ellis-Bextor has taken to the stage at the 77th Baftas to perform ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’ which features in the 2023 hit movie Saltburn.
Gaining renewed popularity thanks to its appearance in the very final scene of the movie, directed by Emerald Fennell, Ellis-Bextor has since enjoyed considerable publicity 23 years after the original release of the song in 2001. It certainly helped that the song scored Saltburn’s most famous scene and worked to symbolise the themes of the camp film, which took aim at social classes.
Speaking about the film’s finale and why the song was so perfect for the ending, Fennell recently exclaimed: “It had to be an act of desecration, an act of territory taking. It’s ownership. ‘This is fucking mine. I do whatever I want…It’s not going to be, like, the forever victory. It’s sort of a depressing victory, even for Oliver. But in that moment, we need to love him. I like the audience to be complicit”.
Speaking about the movie in our full-length review, Far Out said: “Indeed, when a film’s style is so gorgeous to behold, one begins to feel a bit gluttonous for even thinking that substance is necessary, with Fennell channelling her former university experience to bring an excruciatingly accurate vision of Oxford in 2006”.
Continuing, the review added: “As cocaine-snorting, fashionable consumerists, they are the modern-day royalty that line painted on the walls of Saltburn. Keoghan’s Oliver is very much aware of this, too, and doggedly attempts to remain amongst the elite ala The Talented Mr. Ripley, playing a sneaky, unhinged maniac who has as much fun as possible whilst trying to dismantle the system”.
Taking to the stage at the Baftas, Sophie Ellis-Bextor gave an energetic performance that well-matched the frenetic nature of Saltburn’s final act.
Take a look at her performance from the Bafta ceremony below.
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