Two decades ago, Sophie Ellis-Bextor was everywhere with 'Murder On The Dancefloor', and while she's chosen to pursue other ventures, her hit track has once again taken off thanks to the filmSaltburn.

The disco-pop tune plays during the final scene of the movie, where the film's lead Barry Keoghan dances nude, and has kicked off a TikTok trend with Sophie taking part herself.

The movie has introduced the song to an entirely new audience, and over 20 years later, 'Murder On The Dancefloor' is sitting at #8 on the first UK Singles Chart of 2024.

The impact of the film has been enormous for Sophie, who for the first time, is a Billboard Hot 100-charting hitmaker.

In response to her resurgence, Sophie told BBC, "It actually feels really magical. And if I'm honest, I don't think I've completely processed it, really. It’s extraordinary. It's a song I've been singing for over 20 years; I still love singing it."

She continued, "I love the way people react when I do it live. But for new people to be discovering it, for it to be making new memories with people is kind of beautiful."

Ellis-Bextor has been in the spotlight in the UK since she was a kid herself.

Her mum, Janet Ellis, was a presenter on children’s showBlue Peterand, as a child, Ellis-Bextor would sometimes join her on set. By the time she was 16, she was in the indie band Theaudience. Her producer dad, Robin Bextor, who had made music videos for Adam Ant and Bucks Fizz, did the same for his daughter’s band.

After Theaudience broke up, Ellis-Bextor was asked to sing on a track by Italian DJ Spiller. She wrote some verses and the chorus came from another writer. Although she felt uncomfortable about singing the word "ain’t" ("because it was not part of my normal vernacular" she revealed to Double J), she did it anyway, and the dance hit of 2000, 'Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love)', was born.

"When my son discovered it was the first song ever to be played on an iPod, he finally looked impressed by something his mum had done," Ellis-Bextor told The Guardian last year.

The following year she had a massive solo hit with 'Murder On The Dancefloor', which spent 20 weeks in the Australian top 50.

In 2002, Ellis-Bextor met her future husband, bassist Richard Jones, when she was auditioning musicians for her band. He got the job. Jones told The Guardian he saw her as "this otherworldly beauty", someone he didn’t even have a possibility of going out with. But after touring together, the two became close friends.

"And then something kind of smacked us in the face," Jones remembers. "The chemistry was incredible – it was like nothing I've ever experienced."

Feeling he shouldn’t be in a relationship with his boss, Jones stopped playing for Ellis-Bextor and joined The Feeling.

Six weeks after he and Ellis-Bextor started dating, she fell pregnant. Their first son, Sonny, was born 32 weeks into the pregnancy, after Ellis-Bextor developed pre-eclampsia.

"So, comically, our baby was born when we'd only been going out for eight months," Ellis-Bextor added. "Richard was quite selfless – some 24-year-old men would have run a mile."

Of course, the birth itself was anything but comical, with Sonny weighing just 1.6kg. Ellis-Bextor told the Belfast Telegraph that her first sight of her son was as "a tiny patient connected to machines with wires and tubes coming out of him". He spent eight weeks in intensive care.

"The whole thing was scary, daunting and certainly not what you expect," she added.

Five years later, Kit was born at 31 weeks – again, due to pre-eclampsia. Kit weighed even less than his older brother: just 1kg.

"At one stage both of his lungs collapsed and he was on artificial respiration and morphine for a week," Ellis-Bextor remembers.

"He looked just like a little doll. Richard and I never actually voiced the fear that we might lose him, but we definitely thought, 'We've got through this once, but are we really going to be lucky enough to have everything go right again?'"

They were lucky enough, and went on to have three more sons – Ray, Jesse and Mickey – who were all born full-term.

"If my third had been premature as well, I don’t think I would have had another two," Ellis-Bextor told the Independent.

Since having her first two boys, Ellis-Bextor has had to put up with people asking her if she wants a girl. She says she’s happy being a mum to "five blokes", and the question is disrespectful to her sons.