Sophie Ellis-Bextor's children are “not that bothered” about her music.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
The 'Murder On The Dancefloor' hitmaker - who has sons Sonny, 16, Kit, 11, Ray, eight, Jesse, five, and 23-month-old Mickey with husband Richard Jones - wants her kids to retain an interest in music, even if they don't want to follow in her footsteps, but admitted they'd rather engage with other people's songs than her own.
On the possibility of them following in her footsteps, she exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "It’s very hard to predict I mean, definitely my eldest two I’m not sure. They both like the music but I don’t know if it’s what are they going to do for a living.
“To be honest, they’ve kind of got their own things going on. I’d be quite surprised if none of my children were ever in a band even for a minute just because I think it’s such a rite of passage to make some music with your friends.
“I really hope that they continue to be fans of music because I think, you know, just having that little companion in your life and always having songs and albums you turn and going to gigs and all that has always been such a massive part of my life that I can’t even imagine being without it.
"But who knows, they’re certainly not that bothered about my music, so who can tell, really!”
Despite that, Sophie has enjoyed having 'kitchen discos' throughout lockdown as a way to distract everyone from "the heaviness of the news".
She added: "In our household with the sort of hum of everything that's going on and the heaviness of the news having our discos and getting dressed up and choosing the playlist just gave us a very welcome distraction and being a bit daft was good because there wasn't really much of that happening in our day-to-day lives.
“The elements of what our disco is, is nothing I've invented. I did not invent putting animal head masks on and being childish, which is quite fun.
"I think for our family set up it kind of felt like a caricatured version of what so many people were experiencing when all your work has been cancelled and all the kids are off school."
And the 41-year-old star noted how important music has been this year, with writing giving her another outlet during such a tough time.
She explained: “It was also really important place for me to have a bit of a rant in the songs, there was a lot of tension and stress that we've had to de-amplify this year because we're following rules and everything's really pretty restricted.
"So there's a lot of emotions that we're just sort of ignoring for now because now's not the time to run around screaming going, 'Oh my goodness, there's a pandemic!’
"You know we've had to just buckle down and music can be quite a good way to let some of that tension out I think a bit really.
"And if you're singing along to songs where the emotion is so extreme it kind of helps you get some of it out your system, it does for me anyway, it gives me a bit of catharsis.”
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