Time & Perspective Quote by Sophie Ellis Bextor

Ellis-Bextor’s line lands like a disco beat with a wink: a pop star refusing the script that pop stardom helped write. “I used to be hung up on my figure” nods to the era when women in music were expected to be both voice and product, their bodies audited in photoshoots, tabloids, and backstage small talk. The pivot - “but it’s a waste of time” - isn’t self-help so much as quiet defiance: she’s naming body surveillance as stolen attention, then reclaiming that attention for living.

“I don’t believe in diets” is carefully phrased. It’s not “I can’t diet” or “I failed at dieting,” but a rejection of dieting as a belief system, a quasi-religion with its own rituals, sins, and punishments. Then she spikes it with a very British, very social image: “Have four pints one night.” It’s indulgence, yes, but also community, normalcy, pleasure without penance. The kicker - “be healthy the next” - mocks the moral accounting that turns eating and drinking into virtue tests. Health here isn’t a permanent state you earn by suffering; it’s a rhythm, a next-day reset, a refusal to let one night become a narrative about worth.

The subtext is pragmatic feminism: not a manifesto, just a refusal to spend her one life performing discipline for an audience. Coming from a musician whose brand trades in glamorous control, the offhand looseness is the point. It’s permission, delivered with a smirk.