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.
I think I’m probably doing more good than bad, overall.Goulding and Caspar Jopling on their wedding day in York in 2019. I don’t eat that much meat I try to use sustainable fashion brands we’re trying to make my tour completely plastic free, and cut down on flights, with a better eco-bus situation. And having a bigger consciousness of your day-to-day actions. The next step is electing people who take this seriously, and to trust scientists. I can’t help but feel a bit frustrated that I’m the only one speaking out about something so important – no one else in my peer group is. I know that “celebrities shouldn’t get involved in politics”, but it’s something we have to act on now. Climate change has got to a critical point where we all need to be very active we need to compensate for what’s going on in certain political situations. One of my motivations to have a bigger platform as a singer is so that I have more people to reach. The wildfires were exacerbated by climate change, the crazy storms that have been happening: it’s very obvious. It’s gone beyond facts and boring data – we’re seeing it with our own eyes. Going to Greenland and seeing glaciers collapse. But often I really need to just write a bloody good pop song after meeting climate scientists, or going to the climate assembly in Kenya last year. That’s how I stay not sounding like anything else – I have that locked, for ever.ĭoes pop ever feel frivolous compared with your climate change activism? My voice doesn’t sound like anyone’s in the world, so I’ve got that to my advantage, and I can also manipulate my voice as part of the track or make it into a sample. But I still find it thrilling when people release something that doesn’t sound like anything else – I’m always fighting to work with producers coming up with whole new soundscapes. I think it’s important to know the way pop is changing – I would never release something completely blind, without listening to any radio or Spotify, and expect people to like it and for it to compare with what’s out there. There’s a bit of a pop-rap feel to some of the new tracks – were you trying to do something new ? So there probably are small pieces of the songs that relate to things that frustrate me, and things that are happening in the world, but I’ve always been conscious that I want to keep songwriting as an escape. There was a period where I felt someone was trying to sabotage me. But I still didn’t feel the need to be angry – so maybe that’s a good thing.Īre you talking about Ed Sheeran? Įr … not specifically. I found it really baffling, and just sad, that something that I’d built entirely by myself, my career, was somehow at risk. Somebody tried to write a song to damage me, and it was a really horrifying thing to go through.
But I can’t help writing with empathy, trying to understand why a person has behaved the way they have. Electricity is about a friend who had been cheated on quite cruelly for a couple of years. Flux is about thinking about the person who you almost ended up with – I’m a sucker for what could have been.
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