"I wanted to make a confident, celebratory pop record about where I'm at in real life," Sophie Ellis-Bextor tells Out about her new single and upcoming album. "I adore pop music; I adore disco."

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is back with another dance floor anthem, "Freedom of the Night," and a music video that references her 2001 hit song "Murder on the Dancefloor," which was given a new life and went viral on social media after its inclusion in the final scene of Emerald Fennell's 2023 film Saltburn starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, and Rosamund Pike.

Longtime fans of "Murder of the Dancefloor" will immediately recognize the parallels, Easter eggs, visual cues, and references between that iconic music video and Ellis-Bextor's new video for "Freedom of the Night."

"I've been working with my video director friend, Sophie Muller, for over 20 years, and our creative process is always the same," Ellis-Bextor tells Out. "We have a phone call and check ideas back and forth. I say things, and she goes, 'Hmm, not sure about that.' And then she might say something, and I go, 'Hmm, that sounds interesting.'"

Ellis-Bextor started the creative process for the "Freedom of the Night" video without having any connection or reference to "Murder on the Dancefloor." But as she started considering the idea, her director and longtime creative partner, Muller, brought up the same suggestion, noting that it could be a nice "celebration of that relationship" between the two songs.