Thanks to her stadium-husky voice, deployed on expansive pop full of unabashed emotion, Ellie Goulding has long been one of the UK’s biggest global pop stars. I wasn’t forcing myself to write pop songs about boys and relationships, which I used to be so obsessed with when I was younger. But on one new song, Love I’m Given, maybe I was reflecting on how I finally felt I’d found this person that was loving me for the right reasons. So I’m very grateful Caspar came along, because I feel like I was able to be myself again. Flux is about thinking about the person who you almost ended up with – I’m a sucker for what could have been.

Source: The Guardian January 01, 2019 15:00 UTC