Nothing like a little naked dancing to get a song back on the charts.
“Murder On the Dance Floor” is having a Renaissance after 22 years. Sophie Ellis Bexter’s deliciously catchy disco song was a hit around the world in 2002. It wasn’t much of one in the US but that’s about to change thanks to the film, “Saltburn.”
In the final scene of Emerald Fennell’s wild ride of aspiration and revenge, Barry Keoghan’s Oliver is seen dancing naked through the halls of the British mansion he’s inherited after systematically killing off all the members of the family that owned it. It’s an exuberant, with Oliver flapping all about while “Murder on the Dance Floor” expresses his unbridled delight.
The record is now at number 28 on iTunes and up to number 5 on Spotify’s Daily Viral chart for the US.
Sophie Ellis Bextor wrote the song with US hitmaker, Gregg Alexander, who you may know better as the New Radicals. Alexander, who’s a bit of a genius for earworms, wrote the never ending hit “You Gotta Give What You Get,” the song Joni Mitchell once said made her not give up writing and recording new material in the 90s.
Too bad “Murder on the Dance Floor” is old. It would have been a cinch for an Oscar this year!
