Ellie Goulding is writing a classical album.
The ‘Starry Eyed’ hitmaker is “at all times” writing new songs however is trying to take her music in various completely different instructions as a result of in addition to transferring away from pop on her subsequent undertaking, she’s additionally eager to pen scores for motion pictures.
She instructed The Solar newspaper: “I’m at all times writing new music.
“I believe my pure state is to at all times give you concepts and I’ll get within the studio sooner or later.
“Since I wrote [upcoming album] ‘Greater Than Heaven’ some time in the past throughout lockdown, I’m very prepared to put in writing new music.
“I’ve at all times needed to compose music for movies, so for the time being I’m specializing in extra classical.
“I’ve a half completed classical album that I stay up for releasing sooner or later.”
The 36-year-old singer has teamed up with Calvin Harris for the third time on her newest single ‘Miracle’ and he or she admitted the trance monitor got here “out of the blue” however she virtually missed out on the collaboration by “enjoying it a bit too cool”.
She defined: “This one got here barely out of the blue.
“He stated that he had the monitor and instantly considered me for it.
“Calvin doesn’t wish to fiddle so he despatched the music within the subsequent message
“I by chance performed it a bit too cool and didn’t reply for just a few days so he thought I wasn’t into it.
“We recorded the vocal in January. We each suppose it’s actually necessary to be in the identical room when making music.
“I did not really feel any stress as a result of each of us are at some extent in our careers the place we are able to put out stuff that we love, and is genuine to us.”
In the meantime, Ellie desires to comply with Coldplay – who offset as a lot of their carbon footprint as potential on their ‘Music of the Spheres’ world tour with initiatives together with planting timber and utilizing electrical energy partly powered by fan-ridden kinetic bikes – and handle environmental issues not directly together with her subsequent live performance sequence.
She stated: “Touring has such an enormous carbon footprint. It’s so necessary for me, and different artists to attempt to do as a lot as potential to scale back it.
“Venues typically nonetheless don’t cater to this, which I don’t suppose is setting a adequate instance.
“Artists, venues, promoters and brokers ought to all work collectively to be as inexperienced as potential.
“We now have to set the precedent for the subsequent technology of performers.”