The lyrics couldn’t be more gushing over this collision of love.” ‘By the end of the night, I want to feel like the sky is dripping on every part of me.’ It’s beginning to get a little surreal and on another planet. “Quite an ’80s-inspired song, and we reach a point of hyper-realness here. I just love to really meticulously write a song that is perfect to listen to.” I wonder if it’s the years growing up listening to BBC Radio 1 and hearing so much pop, pop, pop-plus dance. “Sometimes I hear a track and something just clicks in my head and I know what to write almost instantly. It’s about that all-encompassing feeling when love takes over you and you’re living in this dream world.” It’s about the dream of love and fire and passion and infatuation. “I made this one with Koz -he did the track and we did the lyrics together. I’m new and shiny again.’ I'm like, ‘No, I make good pop records and here I'm just going to keep doing what I love.’” Here, Goulding takes you through her album, track by track. It’s so often a thing for female artists to have to invent alter egos or change their image or move into totally different genres or try and prove to people, ‘Here I am. And there’s a power in ignoring the people that hint that maybe you need to start doing this or that. I love self-indulgent, poetic lyrics, but I consciously wanted there to be a simplicity to the lyrics and the scenarios. “I’m assertive in a studio, and I believe in trial and error, collaboration, being kind, and staying open-minded,” she says. Many songwriting and production heads (including Greg Kurstin, Julia Michaels, Stephen Kozmeniuk, Ali Tamposi, Anthony Rossomando, and Lostboy) combine for something powerful-but the heart is all Goulding. Higher Than Heaven is a pop hydra of sorts. “It’s the best version of what I do as a pop writer-as a pop vocalist.” “It’s not like releasing something like Brightest Blue, where I was genuinely nervous for people to hear some of the lyrics,” she says. It’s also a love letter to pop, and is the exuberant sound of an artist unburdened. It’s more like a mood.” Goulding’s fifth album is her first since 2020’s very personal Brightest Blue, her first since becoming a mother, and features the first material she wrote after the UK’s various COVID lockdowns. “It’s probably the most refreshing thing that I’ve done. “I was so relaxed on this album,” Ellie Goulding tells Apple Music of Higher Than Heaven.
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