Episode 146: Princess Superstar
Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Kat Rulach
4.8 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Princess Superstar is an American rapper and DJ. She and I are ‘Saltburn sisters’ as we both had our songs featured in the film, which gave them their exciting resurgence of popularity last year.
Princess Superstar has a 13 year old daughter, who she homeschooled till the age of 11, believing that mainstream school doesn't nurture a child's unique creativity.
She also shared with me how, after 10 successful years, she suffered with crippling writer's block in 2010. But she started writing again after she had her daughter and is just about to bring out a new mix tape called The Serve, with the first single Goddess coming out at the end of February. We agreed it should be included in my fantasy project Perimenopop!
She talked to me about how she embarasses her daughter with her stage outfits sometimes. That's definitely another thing we Saltburn sisters have in common!
Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Sophia Lusbexter and welcome to Spinning Plates, the podcast where I speak to busy working women who also happen to be mothers about how they make it work. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm a singer and I've released seven albums in between having my five sons aged 16 months to 16 years, so I spin a few plates myself. Being a |
| 0:22.6 | mother can be the most amazing thing. It can also be hard to find time for yourself and your own |
| 0:27.2 | ambitions. I want to be a bit nosy and see how other people balance everything. Welcome to spinning plates. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello to you. I speak to you from Sunday morning where I'm feeling a little bit weird. I |
| 0:43.3 | unexpectedly took four long haul flights in the last two days, which I wasn't expecting. |
| 0:49.3 | On Wednesday, I was asked, or Richard and I asked asked if we were DJ at party in Bangkok on Friday night. |
| 0:57.7 | And as it would happen, I was actually in Poland when I got this message, having finished a really |
| 1:04.7 | incredible day with Save the Children, visiting lots of Ukrainian children who've been displaced |
| 1:10.6 | following the war in the Ukraine |
| 1:12.1 | and they found themselves now spending the last three years in Warsaw in Poland. |
| 1:17.6 | So I went to visit some of the things that were set up to help integrate them, |
| 1:21.1 | but also give them some fun, give them some skills, give them some, a place to process their emotions. So I'd done a music lesson and an art |
| 1:30.3 | lesson with little ones. And then in the afternoon, I spent some time with teenagers. And they were all |
| 1:35.4 | incredible. And so the children does really impress me. I've worked with them now for nearly 10 years. |
| 1:40.5 | And I love the way that they operate with taking existing support and kind of tweaking |
| 1:45.4 | it so that it can support what's going on the world reflect what's going with kids in here |
| 1:50.1 | and now. It's clever stuff actually. Definitely makes a long-lasting impact in all those kids' lives, |
| 1:56.2 | especially the teenagers. It was amazing hearing them talk. So we'd had this wonderful day. I was coming home. |
| 2:01.9 | It'd been a long day, but a really good one. And as I'm approaching the airport in Warsaw, |
| 2:06.9 | I realised that in order to make, for Richard and I'd like to make the Bangkok Friday night DJ set, |
| 2:13.2 | we would have to leave the following evening unexpectedly. Two flights there, two flights back. |
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