“Homicide On the Dancefloor” was a licensed hit in its day. Ellis-Bextor secured high 10 chart placements throughout Europe and Australia, and traveled the world to carry out the one in live performance. Even now, the English singer-songwriter stays keen on the tune — however she admits that its resurgence got here as an enormous shock. “I’ve a very good relationship with ‘Homicide on the Dancefloor,'” she informed Magic FM, “So having it have this second once more feels actually particular. I do not assume something may have ready me for this, actually. It is fairly magical and surprising.”
When the “Saltburn” staff first approached Ellis-Bextor for her blessing, she was given a “synopsis” of how it will be used. “I knew {that a} character from the movie could be dancing to it with no garments on for the whole thing of [the song],” she continued. “And I really simply thought, ‘I believe I’ve to see that.'”
With the discharge of “Saltburn,” “Homicide on the Dancefloor” has develop into a viral phenomenon. It impressed its personal dance pattern on TikTok, and even damaged by way of the charts in a method that it did not when it was initially launched, debuting for the primary time in the US on Billboard’s Sizzling 100 checklist (at No. 98). It is also again in an enormous method in UK charts, reclaiming the No. 2 spot it as soon as held in 2001, and has climbed to No. 25 on Australia’s ARIA singles chart.
The resurgence of “Homicide” comes at a second the place disco is having fun with a significant reappraisal. The identical goes for the early 2000s: the noughties have develop into an period that everybody is prepared to have fun, whether or not they lived by way of the last decade or not. “Saltburn” could possibly be setting the tone for a brand new wave of nostalgia: the movie will not be for everybody, however a minimum of it is received nice style in music.
“Saltburn” is at present streaming on Prime Video.