Ellie Goulding - "By the End of the Night" + Higher Than Heaven (Apr 7)

[sexercise]

This is a Delirium reject. It's a massive bop, so fine I guess. I was hoping that after her last train wreck album campaign that she was done pandering to radio. I don't see that going well for her this time around nn.

I just want more of these!!!!

 

[QueenB]

I really like the song. Come thru Miss Ellie!

 

[GRMusic]

This needs to smash.

 

[Veeis]

This sounds radio-tailored so I hope it will be at least moderate hit for her. I even kinda like the feature.

 

[M3G4N]

I'm surprised she went back to this? Will the new album regulate these tracks to bonuses? dddd

 

[GRMusic]

I'm surprised she went back to this? Will the new album regulate these tracks to bonuses? dddd

Nope, the album is all in this electropop/dance style. No ballads, pure pop.

 

[M3G4N]

Nope, the album is all in this electropop/dance style. No ballads, pure pop.

YATH - serve us Delirium part 2. I'm perched but this single is just okay.

 

[Creguk]

Can someone try to explain the video concept to me?!

 

[dodoriazarbon]

Has she spoken since about her feelings on how the last era went down in the end? I loved the album and know for us all it was surprisingly good given the “singles” beforehand (which I all enjoyed nn).. but I wonder where she stands on it all now.

 

[HairBodyFace]

I love this, one of her best radio pandering songs in a long time.

 

[Sugaboy]

Okay this is great

 

[Someboy]

Maybe this is a cop out, but you really have to separate the album Brightest Blue from its protracted, misleading, exhausting, and frankly just bad rollout, because the album in the end is great.

This is great too. She’s probably the only person who would call Big Sean for this feature, but his verse is good and throws the song for a loop midway through, like a play on an old Xenomania track, just with an American rapper instead of a posh British woman trying to ‘rap’. The chorus is massive.

 

[Verandi]

Potentially hot take but Delirium, while bloated, was infinitely better than the uber-beige Brightest Blue, and I'm not even considering the relegated bonus singles.

 

[Ferk]

I’ll defend Delirium to the death. Was it right for her? Probably not. But there’s a fucking bulletproof pop album in there. Bops upon bops.

 

[burzacott]

Delirium deserved better. The way they just abandoned the campaign after Army.

Codes remains a mega bop.

 

[popjunkie]

I’ll defend Delirium to the death. Was it right for her? Probably not. But there’s a fucking bulletproof pop album in there. Bops upon bops.

Delirium is my favourite Ellie album. I love Lights and Halcyon but Delirium still felt like an Ellie album to me. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with her making more mainstream pop once the quality is there. I have a problem with songs like Hate Me and Worry About Me because they lack the quality of Delirium. But Easy Lover is back to Delirium levels of good so I’m back on board.

 

[swim]

Delirium is an incredible album











All 10s

 

[man.tis.shrimp]

“Easy Lover” has a propulsive quality to it that a lot of good pop has. It really moves.

 

[borneoman]

Her label was crazy not pushing Something In The Way You Move in the UK, that should have been the lead instead of the awful On My Mind. All her albums are great, I like them all 4, the only crap is that EG0 thin for whatever with the Blackbear and Lauv tracks, nobody needed that.

 

[Mikal]

This needs to smash.

Well it's started slowly. 533k streams yesterday plus 15k from Thursday.