6.26.12 - New Music - Ellie Goulding

This is somehow both a radical departure for Ellie and it keeps with her style and vocal effects-pattern at the same time. How did she manage this?

The song is not an original, but rather a cover of Canadian alternative hip-hop/ambient/indie/dubstep artist The Weeknd (yes, you leave out that last e). I loved The Weeknd’s album last year, and if you actually sit down and listen to it, you’ll hear how amazing and revolutionary he/they are/is.

I won’t focus on them/him too much, but rather on Ellie’s version. If you know Ellie well, you can see how she stayed true to the original song, and yet still made it her own. The sign of a great artist.

“High For This” may or may not be on her upcoming album, which she is hard at work on. No word yet, but we’ll see!