Ellie finding out the movie is in reference to Prada shoes
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She went back to work quite fast after baby number 2 was born, didn’t she?
The way I tried to get this thread reopened literally hours before this ff
This had me screaming, why does it read like a threat
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The aesthetic kinda giving EG.02 
FUCK she really is the meme queen.
Having now heard it properly today and going by the repeated lyrics it’s more than likely the song original titled “Feel Like Love” on ASCAP, co-written with Evan Blair, James Essien and Jack Rochon.
There’s various other recent additions on there, including “All Night”, “All The Time”, “Loser”, “One Day I’ll Forget” and “Sad Forever”.
It’s very much not far away from the Higher Than Heaven material sound and quality, which is fine, but does make her recent insults about her last body of work seem extra unwarranted, as usual:
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I didn’t know she said those things about Higher Than Heaven. She’s crazy! I wonder what she had to say about Delirium, EG.0 and Brightest Blue.
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While she’s never really talked about Brightest Blue/EG.0 retrospectively all that much outside of some offhand comments (she’d mentioned being “nervous” for people to hear those more personal lyrics and she’s described those type of releases as “emotionally draining”), she did have this to more concretely say about Delirium:
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That is why I just… can’t fully invest in her as an artist. I’d be perfectly content with her saying “do you know what, I love experimental stuff but I do need the hits so I put them out” instead of this cycle of promo time wink wink this is me but also hate it tehehe
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She’s a case study.
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Honestly, Higher than Heaven was her most consistent record in ages, and probably her best album overall. So, eh, maybe you didn’t personally invest in it too much, but obviously someone cared enough. It’s the Taylor Swiftication of pop music, if you will, this need to always center yourself in the music no matter what, instead of, you know, play-acting or creating a compelling lyrical or musical landscape, even if you’re an unremarkable person. Eh, just kind of makes me sad. She obviously still has no idea who she is as an artist.
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I expected scathing comments about EG.O from her. But her not commenting on it, or its parent album Brightest Blue is very strange. Also, Brightest Blue is not that great an album even though it has some great songs on it.
I remember blaming Calvin Harris and Ellie’s association with Taylor for Delirium. I disliked the album when it was released. It was not something I expected after Lights and Halcyon. Over the years, I’ve come around to it. Its not a bad album.
Higher Than Heaven is a true successor to Lights. It effortlessly recaptures the magic of the Lights (single) and many of the poppier cuts from that album. Also, vocally, she sounds great. All that being said, Halcyon will forever remain my favourite album by her (and possibly one of my favourite albums of all time).
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I haven’t listened to Lights in 10 years but wasn’t Higher Than Heaven way poppier and boppier than anything on it?
I think Higher Than Heaven’s a solid release, and if its tracklist was fine-tuned and better structured incorporating the deluxe songs I believe it could comfortably be her third best album overall.
Zero reason to be dismissive of it as an artist, especially when she weirdly decided on our behalf that we could apparently tell she didn’t believe in it.
I mean, outside of us collectively noticing her paying it dirt on its own official tour, that is (which has a lot of Halcyon and Brightest Blue songs in the setlists). That was clear to everyone. Basically the two KOKO gigs were the only evidence several of these songs exist live.
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Delirium was such a pain in the ass to listen through start to end. How did she record 20 something songs for it and then decide she didn’t want that?
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She’ll throw a decent album under the bus but not cop to the blackface and creative nadir of ego
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At the time Delirium was released, I remember she saying something like “I wanted to make a proper pop album.” And, well, she did. Releasing On My Mind as the lead single was a mistake in hindsight, but not a bad album girl, no no. Stop tanking your own work, thanks!
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I honestly do not care that much when an artist drags past work. Like, who cares if they don’t like it if you do.
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My main issue is that it’s almost always part of the following album’s campaign, that she really has to criticise something about the prior’s.
You’d think she’s gained enough experience, releases and notes of her own mentioned self-critiques to be better able to make albums that she actually fully loves by 2026.
I’ll always remember the video portion of 2009’s “An Introduction to Ellie Goulding” where she said something along the lines of looking forward to developing a body of work. That’s never really felt particularly true over time.
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I agree. I fucking love Delirium and kinda don’t care if she doesn’t. Artists usually have complicated relationships to their own work.
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