Ellie Goulding: With the “less personal” album Higher Than Heaven, she achieves what she does best: pop

Ellie Goulding is back. The singer’s fifth studio album, Higher than the sky, was released this Friday April 6th. The voice – and mind – behind successes like burn AND Love me like you do offers meticulously crafted production for pop fans and, according to the artist herself, that’s how it should be seen: ‘just’ as a pop album. “This album was not created to be super intellectualized or to be analyzed by people,” she said in a question and answer session with journalists that Estadão attended.

It is common for fans to analyze the lyrics of their favorite artists and try to find out more about who they are out of the spotlight. Ellie makes that clear Higher than the sky it’s not for that: “this is not an album about personal life”. The exception is the single also released on Friday, best man, which showcases Ellie’s vision of a male-dominated industry. “It’s a bit of a darker direction. I do classical music and will be releasing it soon, but for now it’s pop, pop, pop.”

Easy lover, let him die AND Like a Savior, which won clips in the months leading up to release, already indicated the album’s tone. “Coming out of lockdown, nobody wanted to make music that was deeply personal. We were all ready to make music that wasn’t autobiographical.” He comments that he has noticed other artists have done the same and doesn’t think it was “coincidence that we all used that outlet”.

During the writing process for the album, Ellie was pregnant with her first child, Arthur. When asked if her pregnancy had any impact on the production, she said she ignored it and went in the “opposite direction.” “It was too big a thing to comprehend. I just wanted to get back to what I really love to do: write fun pop songs.” Motherhood could be one of the themes of the next album. “Maybe because it completely changes your life, whether you like it or not. Something blossoms in you that wasn’t there before.”

On musical inspirations for Higher than HeavenEllie says she was listening to classical and electronic songs while producing the album. “I love music, always have, in any genre. I’m a fan of music that touches you.” He attributes the success of his career to this: “I’ve always made music that I feel touches people on a different emotional level. I think that’s why I’m successful at what I do, because people can relate to it, but they can also be taken to another world.”

The deluxe version of the album, which has 16 tracks, has songs that alternate different points of view: that of the heartbroken, of those in love and of those who think that love doesn’t need a cure. According to Ellie, one of the songs, care for loveit shows how much you love “the idea of ​​making people feel good so they don’t need anyone”.

She also opened her heart: “I’m one of those people who falls in love for the wrong reasons, thinking they’ll complete me. We grew up thinking we need to have deep relationships with other people, but we need to have those relationships with ourselves. I recently learned that, a little late.”

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Source: Terra