It’s not a bad song, but nothing really sets it apart. It also features a run-of-the-mill rap feature from blackbear. Her classical music background still manages to influence the track via vocal tics that create the most interesting musical moments of the song and the detracting off-kilter choral refrain. “Worry About Me” is Ellie’s most bombastic single yet, clearly reveling in the influence of hip-hop production techniques. Self-described as a collection of songs by her “alter ego,” this collection perfectly encapsulates just how bizarre and fragmented a career that she has actually had.Īfter a brief introduction via “Overture,” the lead single for the Brightest Blue era begins. Nowhere is this more apparent than Blue’s accompanying EP EG.0.
But I sometimes think that Ellie Goulding didn’t always know what to do with herself either. In my opinion, most people, especially music industry executives, don’t really know what to do with Ellie Goulding. The journey from Halcyon to now has been an often confusing, wild ride through multiple embodiments of the pop genre. Though, depending on which fan you talk to, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
If anything, Blue seems to be promising a regression in sound. But Delirium went the opposite direction, embracing modern pop on the back of global number one “Love Me Like You Do.”
Ellie described Halcyon as “very self-indulgent” and “the most honest record she’s ever written.” The album is a meshing of heart-wrenching storytelling and the moody electronic style that would be embodied by Billie Eilish a few years later. This sounds exactly like the follow-up that her 2012 release Halcyon promised, though not the one that 2015’s Delirium delivered. She has described Blue as something that allows people “to immerse themselves into a world of hope despite everything being so bleak.” She says that it’s about “tear through your own demons” and “free yourself from toxic relationships.” Brightest Blue, the fourth album by British pop singer Ellie Goulding, out July 17th, has been five years in the making.
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