British pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor said she wanted to "flip the script" regarding ageing and pop music with her new album title, Perimenopop.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, the 46-year-old said she used to feel that she might not be able to continue in the pop music genre as she grew older.
When asked where the title Perimenopop, a play on the words perimenopause and pop, came from, Ellis-Bextor replied: "I can't think.
"It might be to do with the fact I'm in my mid-40s, but my girlfriends and I, we felt like all the algorithms have shifted towards what this chapter of our lives would bring, and I find myself feeling really good in myself, actually.
"I'm enjoying life, I'm surrounded by lovely people.
"I love what I do and I poured a lot of that joy and celebration of years of experience of what I do [into the record]. I'm so proud of it, actually, so I was like, 'Flip the script, Perimenopop here we come'."
The Murder on the Dancefloor star continued: "When I was younger, I felt like pop maybe would be something I'd do when I was younger, because it wouldn't be something I could expect to still do when I got older.
"I actually think a lot of my kids' generation don't care what age you are, they just want to have good music. But also, there's so much fun to be found in this chapter of my life and I love the fact that the years have piled up.
"I'm actually super into it. I like it."
Ellis-Bextor, who currently presents a weekly show on BBC Radio 2, began her career in 1996.
Perimenopop is due to be released on Friday 12 September.
Ellis-Bextor played two nights in Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre in May.
Source: Press Association
