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Shoot from the Hip
Standard edition cover; certain international editions feature the text in a blue typeface
Studio album by
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Released27 October 2003 (2003-10-27)
Recorded2003
GenreDance-pop[1]
Length50:08
LabelPolydor
Producer
Sophie Ellis-Bextor chronology
Read My Lips
(2001) 		Shoot from the Hip
(2003) 		Trip the Light Fantastic
(2007)
Singles from Shoot from the Hip
  1. "Mixed Up World"
    Released: 13 October 2003
  2. "I Won't Change You"
    Released: 22 December 2003

Shoot from the Hip is the second studio album by English singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, released on 27 October 2003 by Polydor Records. It was produced by Gregg Alexander, Matt Rowe, Jeremy Wheatley and Damian LeGassick.

Background

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The album was released in Europe in October 2003, but little interest was generated outside the United Kingdom, where the album peaked at number 19 on the UK Albums Chart, with the exception of Switzerland, where it peaked at number 35 on the Swiss Albums Chart. As with the single "Music Gets The Best Of Me" the previous year, the album suffered from being caught in a glut of new releases in the approach to Christmas. Consequently, the album was cited as the singer's least commercially successful album until the release of her fourth studio album, Make a Scene, which reached number 33. The album only produced two singles—"Mixed Up World" and "I Won't Change You"—which reached number 7 and number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, respectively.

Apart from "Murder on the Dancefloor", none of Ellis-Bextor's solo material was released in the US until June 2007, when Shoot from the Hip was added to the American iTunes Store. The songs "I Won't Dance with You" and "The Walls Keep Saying Your Name" feature backing vocals (and one verse of lead vocal on the latter song) from Ellis-Bextor's ex-boyfriend and ex-manager, Andy Boyd, although his name does not appear anywhere in the album credits.

Similarly to "Sparkle" and "Final Move" missing from the worldwide version of Read My Lips, the international edition of Shoot from the Hip does not include the opening track "Making Music", "I Won't Dance with You" nor the hidden track following the end of "Hello, Hello", a cover of Olivia Newton-John's "Physical". The international edition also changes all text on the cover, disc and in the booklet to the shade of turquoise instead of the white used on the UK release.

In 2014, Ellis-Bextor reflected on the album to Attitude magazine, saying: "The second album still had the same feel as the first, but it was maybe a little bit darker. During that record I was going through a bit of a break-up so there are a few break-up songs on there. I wasn't feeling quite as funny and breezy as I was on the first album, but I got it back on album three."[2]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
entertainment.ie[3]
MTV Asia[4]
Playlouder[5]
RTÉ[6]

Writing for musicOMH, Sarah McDonnell highlighted the input from Bernard Butler, feeling that different co-writers make the album "patchy in places" and as a result, Ellis-Bextor's songs "sometimes sound a little self-conscious and clunky, almost a little too earnestly conveying her message".[7] Nevertheless, McDonnell also stated "whatever you might think of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, you can't fault her determination" and felt that the album is a "good effort and displays an ambition – and potential – to produce consistent, high quality, intelligent pop music".[7]

K. Ross Hoffman of AllMusic said that while the album "lacks anything nearly as distinctive as her early singles, [...] it's still a solid, perfectly respectable collection of contemporary dance-pop", pointing to "the smooth disco single 'Mixed-Up World' and the chipper 'I Won't Change You'", the latter of which he compared to "Love at First Sight" by Kylie Minogue. Hoffman further judged "there's enough variety to keep the album from sagging, particularly as things turn slightly darker and moodier towards the latter half with the spiky 'You Get Yours' and the odd, haunted 'The Walls Keep Saying Your Name'." However, he felt differently about Butler's contribution, pointing out "the understated ballad 'I Am Not Good at Not Getting What I Want' [...] rounds things out nicely."[1]

While McDonnell compared lead single "Mixed Up World" to material by the Pet Shop Boys,[7] Lucy Davies of BBC Music felt that track is similar to "the best 80s PWL creations".[8] Although singling out the final two tracks (positively comparing the strings in "Hello, Hello" to Andrew Lloyd Webber and questioning why "Physical" is a hidden track when it "encapsulates Sophie; knowingly dead-pan with a little wink tipped at the listener"), Davies used a line from opening song "Making Music" to say the album is largely "making music by numbers"—calling the two songs Boyd contributes vocals on "naff" and the rhyming on "Party in My Head" "cringe worthy". Davies commented that despite the songs on Shoot from the Hip featuring "chewing gum melodies", "Sophie needs to think long and hard about where she's going next."[8]

entertainment.ie held a similar opinion, summarising that even though Shoot from the Hip is a "perfectly efficient pop album", "it still leaves you wondering what Ellis-Bextor could achieve if she really tried."[3]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Making Music" (UK-exclusive track)
Damian LeGassick3:36
2."Mixed Up World"
  • Alexander
  • Rowe
3:45
3."I Won't Change You"
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • Alexander
  • Rowe
  • Alexander
  • LeGassick
  • Rowe
  • Jeremy Wheatley
3:40
4."Nowhere Without You"
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • Davis
LaGassick4:53
5."Another Day"Ellis-BextorLeGassick3:20
6."Party in My Head"
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • Alexander
  • Rowe
LeGassick3:34
7."Love It Is Love"
LeGassick3:29
8."You Get Yours"
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • Andy Boyd
  • Ross Newell
LeGassick3:59
9."The Walls Keep Saying Your Name"Ellis-BextorLeGassick4:23
10."I Won't Dance with You" (UK-exclusive track)
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • LeGassick
LeGassick3:59
11."I Am Not Good at Not Getting What I Want"
LeGassick3:33
12."Hello, Hello"
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • LeGassick
LeGassick4:20
13."Physical" (UK-exclusive hidden track)
LeGassick3:53
North American digital edition[9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."The Earth Shook the Devil's Hand"
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • Boyd
  • Newell
  • Boyd
  • Newell
2:48
15."Mixed Up World" (Groove Collision Vocal Mix)
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • Alexander
  • Rowe
  • Alexander
  • Rowe
6:36
2021 LP edition[10]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."The Earth Shook the Devil's Hand"
  • Ellis-Bextor
  • Boyd
  • Newell
  • Boyd
  • Newell
2:48
15."Yes Sir, I Can Boogie"
3:59

Personnel

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Charts

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Chart performance for Shoot from the Hip
Chart (2003) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[11] 107
French Albums (SNEP)[12] 99
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13] 84
Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico)[14] 25
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[15] 39
Scottish Albums (OCC)[16] 28
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[17] 35
UK Albums (OCC)[18] 19

Certifications

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Certifications for Shoot from the Hip
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[19] Silver 60,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Release history for Shoot from the Hip
Region Date
United Kingdom 27 October 2003
Various 28 October 2003
United States (digital) 26 June 2007
United Kingdom (vinyl re-release) 25 September 2021

References

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  1. ^ a b c Hoffman, K. Ross. "Review: Shoot from the Hip". AllMusic. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ^ Rigby, Sam. "Attitude Magazine » Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Looking back at my bangers". Attitude. Archived from the original on 18 January 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ a b Lynch, Andrew (8 November 2003). "Review: Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Shoot From The Hip". entertainment.ie. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. ^ Leong, Gabriel. "Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Shoot From The Hip (Polydor)". MTV Asia. Archived from the original on 15 June 2004. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  5. ^ Moffat, Iain (25 October 2003). "Shoot From The Hip: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Playlouder. Archived from the original on 5 March 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
  6. ^ McGee, Linda. "Review: Sophie Ellis Bextor - Shoot From the Hip". RTÉ.ie. Archived from the original on 29 October 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
  7. ^ a b c McDonnell, Sarah. "Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Shoot From The Hip". musicOMH. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  8. ^ a b Davies, Lucy. "BBC - Music – Review of Sophie Ellis Bextor – Shoot From The Hip". BBC. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  9. ^ "Shoot From The Hip by Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Spotify. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  10. ^ "Shoot From The Hip by Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Plastic Pop Records. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Part of Sophie Ellis Bextor's ARIA chart history 2000 to 2022, received from ARIA in 2022 page 1". ARIA. Retrieved 3 December 2023 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  12. ^ "Lescharts.com – Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Shoot from the Hip". Hung Medien. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Shoot from the Hip" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  14. ^ "Los Más Vendidos – Semana Del 11 al 17 de Junio de 2007" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2007.
  15. ^ "Charts.nz – Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Shoot from the Hip". Hung Medien. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  16. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  17. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Shoot from the Hip". Hung Medien. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  18. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  19. ^ "British album certifications – Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Shoot from the Hip". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
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