{"id":7912,"date":"2012-11-11T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2012-11-11T14:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:50:55","slug":"ellie-goulding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/11\/ellie-goulding\/","title":{"rendered":"ELLIE GOULDING"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ELLIE GOULDING<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Global success scores the singer more creative control on her latest\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ellie Goulding hit the ground running after she released her debut album, Lights<\/em>, two years ago, and she hasn\u2019t slowed down one bit. In her native England, she won a coveted Brit Award and was invited to play at the Royal Wedding. In the U.S., she scored an unexpected hit with \u201cLights\u201d\u2014which has been downloaded a whopping 3 million times. Now Goulding, 25, is ready to show a new side with her sophomore effort, Halcyon<\/em>. \u201cEven though people keep saying the second album is supposed to be the difficult one, I feel like Lights<\/em> prepared me for a lot,\u201d says Goulding. \u201cIt really paved the way. Halcyon feels like my first album in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Goulding didn\u2019t take a dramatically new approach with Halcyon<\/em>, as co-producer she stepped up the level of involvement in the writing and recording process. \u201cI felt like I had a lot more control this time,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are still real elements of naivet\u00e9 and simplicity in it because of that. It would have been easy to work with a big producer, where I just sang. But I really wanted to put a lot into this and know that it was my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the urging of her manager, Goulding produced the record with Jim Eliot of electropop duo Kish Mauve. \u201cI just clicked with Jim. He was conveniently ignorant of my old stuff, so we started fresh,\u201d says Goulding. Though initially unsure of the collaboration, the session proved very efficient. \u201cHe was living back in my hometown. It was pandemonium getting there,\u201d she continues. \u201cI thought, \u2018This is gonna be a nightmare.\u2019 Then the next day when we actually made a song together, \u2018Anything Could Happen,\u2019 I was like \u2018This guy gets it!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting it meant paying particular attention to her vocals, which Goulding wanted to showcase. \u201cI wanted it to be the birth of my voice because I felt like my voice was squeezed tightly into the music on the last record,\u201d she explains. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t distinct to the point where you go away from the track thinking, \u2018Wow, that voice.\u2019 I\u00a0specifically wanted this one to be very vocal.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just Goulding\u2019s vocals that stand out. The songs are marked by the maturity of a woman who\u2019s weathered a whirlwind couple of years. \u201cI was in a very different place when I wrote this record,\u201d she says. \u201cSince Lights<\/em>, my life has obviously changed a lot. Lights is sort of a culmination of songs from my childhood\u00a0and teenage years. It wasn\u2019t a fully formed document of me. Halcyon <\/em>is more of a complete work. If I had to pick one song right\u00a0now, I\u2019d feel like I\u2019d cut my arm off.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n

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ELLIE GOULDING Global success scores the singer more creative control on her latest\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ellie Goulding hit the ground running after she released her debut album, Lights, two years ago, and she hasn\u2019t slowed down one bit. In her native England, she won a coveted Brit Award and was invited to play at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,6],"tags":[5242,5239,5243,5241,5240,5077],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}