When you're where I am, everything's timeless (yeah, yeah) Price tag poppin', then you on a private (then you on a)ĭon't say "sorry," everyone's watchin' (everyone) Iced out body, didn't go to college (yeah, yeah) I make it known I fuck with you, not undercover ('cover)Īnd when I jump in, I'm burnin' rubber (yeah, skrrt) I had to cut my bitch off, she bein' stubborn (stubborn) 'Cause I'm an animal, animal-al, like animal, like youĪnd I don't wanna be somebody without your body close to me (whoo) arena tour next spring, it was just last year that she was playing theaters and festivals such as Coachella, despite a string of Top 40 smashes.Even though we both know we're liars and we start each other's firesĮven though we're kicked out the party 'cause we both hate everybodyĪnd I don't wanna be somebody without your body close to meĪnd if it wasn't you, I wouldn't want anybody close to me (yeah, yeah) Just a few years ago, she was an EDM vocalist with hipster appeal and a side-shaved haircut that matched her boyfriend's, Skrillex.
With Delirium's release, Goulding also gets introspective about her place in the pop music landscape, particularly in America. You remember you're doing it for you and you've got your friends," among them: Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Calvin Harris. All those things, you just take with a pinch of salt. You know what's going to happen, you know you're going to get talked about, you know you're going to get analyzed and criticized and praised.
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"It's a very strange thing to be confronted with, but then you just learn how to deal with it. "I was very naive and pretending to deal with it, but not actually dealing with it," Goulding says. Since crossing over stateside with breakout single Lights in 2012, the ethereal singer says she feels "a bit wiser than I was." Back then, she coped with her sudden fame and constant touring through heavy drinking, but turned a corner when she met Poynter, who recovered from his own battles with alcohol and substance abuse. I know some people do yoga to feel better, but I write songs." It's worth writing the songs if it makes you feel better. "I keep to myself and I'm a pretty private person, but then my songs are really a way for me to be able channel it. "If I were to consider every single lyric in every one of my songs, I would spend most of my life panicking and worrying about things," Goulding says. People have speculated that Mind was written as a response to ex-flame Ed Sheeran's hit Don't - an idea Goulding has since dismissed, although she isn't bothered if fans read into it.
"I'm obsessed with this idea of someone in your past resonating really strongly with someone in your present, and still having an effect on you for some reason." Bouncing ideas and talking relationships for a day before writing even began, her desire for the song was to "come out with something very bold," Goulding says. Swedish super-producer Max Martin also puts his stamp on a handful of Delirium tracks, including Codes, Army and lead single On My Mind, now at No. "When you start an album around the time of a new relationship, that makes a huge difference, because you're still in that amazing phase of being completely in love and that reflects in the songs." dance duo Disclosure (bonus track Heal), Goulding credits the album's overarching euphoria in part to her boyfriend, McFly bassist Dougie Poynter, whom she started dating last year. Working with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder (the exotic Keep On Dancing), Sia collaborator Greg Kurstin ( synth anthem Something in the Way You Move) and U.K. That changed when she went to Los Angeles last year and hit the studio with top-shelf producers, "who wanted something to come out that hadn't before." Goulding started writing Delirium shortly after the release of sophomore effort Halcyon in 2012, but "the songs were still quite sad and from a dark place," she says. The grandiose ballad is now included on Goulding's third album Delirium, out Friday, in which the dance music darling proves her mettle as a pop star. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in March and selling 2.5 million downloads to date, according to Nielsen Music. Love Me, which Goulding had never planned to release as a single, took off organically from the Fifty Shades soundtrack - peaking at No. Certainly if people recognized me, I'd get a bit embarrassed watching certain scenes." "It's one of those movies you can't really watch on an airplane.
I'm sure I will," says Goulding, 28, whose Love Me Like You Do appears in the film. "I've been so busy, I haven't had a chance to watch it. Ellie Goulding wrote one of the biggest hits of her career for Fifty Shades of Grey, but she's actually never seen the S&M romance.
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