Posted May 10, 200718 yr Sophie Ellis-Bextor recently sat down with Gay UK to chat about the album, "Trip The Light Fantastic", whose first single, "To Catch You", has a video which looks like an homage to Madonna's "Like A Virgin" video filmed in Venice. Sophie also talked about Madonna. Here's an excerpt of the interview... GAY UK: Who did you like musically when you were a kid? Sophie Ellis-Bextor: I really loved Michael Jackson, and I was also really into Madonna, in quite a big way. GAY UK: Are you still into Madonna? Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Yeah, well... she's one of those people, there's aspects of her career that I adore and others that I don't understand quite so much, but whenever I see her live, you can't help but just, she has this ability to have you in the palm of her hand again. I went to see her last year in the Confessions on a Dance Floor and it was brilliant, it was really inspiring. I can never quite leave her behind really. Songs like Hung up, and Sorry, I don't know if they get me in the same way as the songs I knew when I was little like Like a Prayer and Cherish and Express Yourself. GAY UK: Are you going on tour this year? Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Yeah, definitely. GAY UK: Will yours be, in a way, similar to Madonna's? Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Well for Madonna, budget is a non-issue so it won't be at quite the same level obviously (laughs), but I try to see lots and lots of gigs, and you take little bits from everywhere. I do believe in showmanship. I think the thing that Madonna does, which I hope I can do, is that she has this ability to come across as quite austere at the beginning, not cold exactly but a little detached. But at the end of it she looks like she's having a great time - she's dancing, and you're dancing, and it's all great. I think that's really clever how she gets that dynamic to work. You always feel at the end of it that you've somehow won her over. I don't know, that's a real, you know what I mean? Not everyone has that. Source: madonnanation
