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The wildfires were exacerbated by climate change, the crazy storms that have been happening: it’s very obvious. It’s gone beyond facts and boring data – we’re seeing it with our own eyes. Going to Greenland and seeing glaciers collapse. But often I really need to just write a bloody good pop song after meeting climate scientists, or going to the climate assembly in Kenya last year. That’s how I stay not sounding like anything else – I have that locked, for ever.ĭoes pop ever feel frivolous compared with your climate change activism? My voice doesn’t sound like anyone’s in the world, so I’ve got that to my advantage, and I can also manipulate my voice as part of the track or make it into a sample. But I still find it thrilling when people release something that doesn’t sound like anything else – I’m always fighting to work with producers coming up with whole new soundscapes. I think it’s important to know the way pop is changing – I would never release something completely blind, without listening to any radio or Spotify, and expect people to like it and for it to compare with what’s out there. There’s a bit of a pop-rap feel to some of the new tracks – were you trying to do something new? Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email: music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras So there probably are small pieces of the songs that relate to things that frustrate me, and things that are happening in the world, but I’ve always been conscious that I want to keep songwriting as an escape. There was a period where I felt someone was trying to sabotage me.
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But I still didn’t feel the need to be angry – so maybe that’s a good thing.Īre you talking about Ed Sheeran? Įr … not specifically. I found it really baffling, and just sad, that something that I’d built entirely by myself, my career, was somehow at risk. Somebody tried to write a song to damage me, and it was a really horrifying thing to go through. But I can’t help writing with empathy, trying to understand why a person has behaved the way they have. Electricity is about a friend who had been cheated on quite cruelly for a couple of years. So I’m very grateful Caspar came along, because I feel like I was able to be myself again.įlux is about thinking about the person who you almost ended up with – I’m a sucker for what could have been. I don’t know how I could have possibly given a good version of myself to anyone: friends, boyfriends, family. I never had time to myself, and any time I did was in a hotel room somewhere – I’d probably had a few drinks, knocked myself out. I don’t think I ever got over being thrust into the spotlight, so I put on quite a tough exterior. I have a terrible habit of analysing things to within an inch of their lives, so I didn’t want to overanalyse what I had with him – it’s something much more pure, and something I didn’t need to explain to myself in a song.īut on one new song, Love I’m Given, maybe I was reflecting on how I finally felt I’d found this person that was loving me for the right reasons.
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I wasn’t forcing myself to write pop songs about boys and relationships, which I used to be so obsessed with when I was younger.Īnd you got engaged. But it gave me a kind of freedom, because there was no one telling me to release an album. I’d often book studios and there’d never be anyone else there. New York doesn’t really have the same rock’n’roll scene it used to, and it was very lonely.
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I just started cooking, going to the dry cleaners, learning piano. I finished touring, moved to New York, and I was jaded, depleted of any artistic inspiration. Where has your head been at since the last album? But she also has a stack of ongoing extracurricular activities. In 2019 she releases her fourth album which, judging by the excellent songs played to the Guardian, is sure to be another hit.
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Thanks to her stadium-husky voice, deployed on expansive pop full of unabashed emotion, Ellie Goulding has long been one of the UK’s biggest global pop stars. Ellie Goulding: 'I'm finally myself again'īack with a bold fourth album, Ellie Goulding is set on a new sound, averting environmental catastrophe – and settling a score or two