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This left her feeling that being sexualised “was what one of my strengths had to be. And there are so many female singers that will hear me saying that and say: ‘Yeah, I can relate.’” My whole career started off with instantly being made to feel like a sexual object, and being made to feel vulnerable in those sessions. Other sessions would have alcohol and it would get to a point where the man would say something suggestive and I’d feel uncomfortable.

I’d have to laugh it off – I constantly had to laugh things off. “I wouldn’t be able to get home because I couldn’t afford it, and they would say: ‘You can stay.’ But there would always be the suggestion of something. “And I was like, why? I didn’t see myself as an object of desire.” He and others preyed upon her vulnerability as a 19-year-old keen to make it. “The first producer I met wanted to sleep with me,” she says. She says she was foolish not to ally herself with the #MeToo movement earlier – “I was a bit too scared, I thought maybe I would be judged” – because she had those experiences, too. Meetings with other producers weren’t so charmed. A Brit award and a No 1 debut album in 2010 quickly followed as the industry’s gears whirred excitedly into motion.

She had a “brother and sister” connection with Starsmith, and the combination of his electronic production and her songs, sung with that uniquely sweet-yet-careworn voice, won her a major label deal. I have to sometimes pretend.” But “music chose me”, she says, and she started “playing guitar manically every night, writing manically”, going to open mic nights, putting her songs on MySpace and messaging producers to help bring them to fruition. “I don’t know if that ever really goes away. “Singing seemed to be a way for me to have confidence while not being confident,” she says. Photograph: John Rainford/GC ImagesĪfter growing up in a council house in a Herefordshire village, Goulding initially wanted to act and studied drama, “but I was painfully shy”, so she became a huge pop star. There was not a hint of hesitation or lack of enthusiasm to get this done asap and shoot a crazy video where I have a twin brother (dark Parent Trap for adults if you will).Goulding and Caspar Jopling on their wedding day in York in 2019. I love this side of Ellie Goulding over this tempo and darker hip-hop production. It was refreshing to write, in the sunshine of L.A., because at the time I was writing dark songs about my state of mind in New York.”īlackbear adds, “It’s a song with a passive yet descriptive message of independence, charisma and attitude while a statue of smooth still stands tall. It is intentionally tongue-in-cheek because I’m not at all bitter, I just found it humorous. Goulding says of the new single: “’Worry About Me’ is a song I wrote reminiscing about a time a guy wanted me at his convenience, just as I was getting over him. She also hangs out with a flock of chickens, because why not?

Despite their mischief and mayhem, Goulding gradually gains control through sinister, supernatural means.

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Ellie Goulding goes full vampire mode in her new video for “Worry About Me,” in collaboration with Blackbear, who appears in the clip as a set of twins.ĭirected by Emil Nava and set in a “middle American” woodland, the video shows Goulding stranded in the woods with the two Blackbears.