Read our Privacy noticePop was a bit of a dirty word,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor remembers, of her first flush of real fame. “I thought, OK, if I present myself in this way and my career is over within five years, I can go away knowing that I didn’t really reveal anything about myself. “For me, success is harder to navigate than failure or disappointment. And she also knows that pop music helps, too. “I didn’t know if other people felt like that, too.