"Love Me like You Do" is a mid-tempo electropop power ballad, with instrumentation consisting of massive synths and crushing drums. The song was also included on Goulding's third studio album, Delirium (2015). It was released on 7 January 2015 as the second single from the soundtrack. Goulding was selected to provide vocals to the track.
The song was written by Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Tove Lo, Max Martin and Ali Payami the latter two also produced it. " Love Me like You Do" is a song recorded by English singer Ellie Goulding for the soundtrack to the film Fifty Shades of Grey (2015). The act’s still hunting for a breakout pop hit, but its members clearly have the prowess to join the Passion Pits of the world if they write one.Įllie Goulding revels in honesty on ‘Halcyon’Įllie Goulding to release ‘Halcyon’ in OctoberĮllie Goulding hopes to duplicate U.K.Fifty Shades soundtrack singles chronology Lucia, which played its indie-friendly club tracks with unexpected muscle and emotion. The night opened with a brash set by the New York outfit St. You can take the girl out of the country and put her in the festival dance tent, but that doesn’t mean you’ve entirely taken the country out of her.
Goulding may have come up alongside the EDM tide in America, but she’s one of the few artists to have translated that scene’s bylaws into her own vision. She quickly regrouped to close out the night, however, with cosmic, regal takes on “Anything Could Happen” and her clubbier hits, including “Starry Eyed,” the Harris collab “I Need Your Love” and “Lights.” This is where she sounded best - her high, light voice bolstered by big electro pulses and instantly sticky melodies. But compared to her earlier spare-to-vanishing takes on “Guns and Horses” and “I Know You Care,” it felt as if the band needed to pad her set out a bit. Her piano-ballad cover of Elton John’s “Your Song” was convincing (even with a post-Grammys Elton hangover, it’s hard to sully that classic). The late-middle of the set, which revisited her acoustic-troubadour impulses, dragged a little by comparison. That approach helped make some older, lightweight songs such as “Under the Sheets” and “Salt Skin” feel a little more arterial and lusty. Goulding makes a point of keeping a bank of drums up front to bash in accompaniment, and the first half of Tuesday’s show took the hummingbird-ish qualities of her voice and balanced them with tribal synth-rock. Goulding and her band reconfigured the digital jitters of “Halcyon’s” title tune and “Figure 8” into something almost headbangable. Tuesday’s set showed how a good song can shine through grandiose productions, and how electronic witchcraft can highlight delicate, lyrical detail.Īn early run of newer tracks set the pace for the night. The album did, however, have an unexpected late-cycle hit in the title track, and Goulding proved a quick study in marrying EDM sonics with her Kate Bush-indebted songwriting. singles charts, first making waves in dance blog-land with her glitchy, dreamy single “Starry Eyed.” But her major-label debut album, “Lights,” unexpectedly leaned on angsty, electronics-augmented folk-pop, which was probably meant to showcase her voice and songwriting chops but instead bogged her down in the maw of indie soundtracks. Goulding had a slow burn to the top of the U.S. But it’s also apropos that her hometown village of Lyonshall in Herefordshire is, as England goes, about as country and western as it gets.
Sure, she’s dated Skrillex and worked with neo-rave staples such as Calvin Harris and Zedd. She’s got a singer-songwriter’s heart and a lyrical way with storytelling. Maybe that’s what’s separated Goulding from the pack of EDM’s young female singers and what’s elevated her to actual pop stardom in America. You could easily imagine an actual country artist like Miranda Lambert covering it. But live, Goulding sang it as a pretty, simple story about skinny-dipping in a creek and feeling a sense of endless potential. On record, that tune is a throb of synthesizers and pitch-tweaked vocals. That’s a curious self-image for a 26-year-old English electro-pop vixen with a one-quarter shaved head and a quiver of ravey, chart-topping singles.īut then she followed that quip with “Anything Could Happen,” the first single off her most recent album, “Halcyon,” and it made more sense. Ellie Goulding described herself as “just a country girl” at her sold-out Hollywood Palladium show Tuesday night.
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