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Ellie Goulding admitted she “left it too long” before speaking up about her #MeToo experiences.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview with The Independent, Goulding discussed her latest album ‘Brightest Blue’, the public’s fascination with her ex-boyfriends and instances of abuse she has experienced while operating in the music industry.<\/p>\n
“I feel really stupid for saying I wasn’t affected by the #MeToo movement,” she said. “Those university years were when those problems started for me.”<\/p>\n
Goulding explained how she was the first member of her family to go to university but struggled financially – balancing a retail and theatre job while juggling her emerging career as a singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n
“I struggled to make money for trains and that’s when producers started to take advantage, asking me to stay over. A part of me knew it was wrong. But a part of me accepted it. I thought: ‘OK, this is what happens, they help you make a great song and you owe them something’,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I normalised too much and I am sad about that. Later, I ended up being too reliant on blokes,” she continued. “I would love to talk to more female musicians about this. I don’t have a good connection with that many female artists and I wish I did. I want to ask: what did I – what do I – have to do to prove myself as a musician?”<\/p>\n
Goulding went on to explain how people have often told her that her records are a ‘guilty pleasure’, to which she asked, “Why? I don’t think I make embarrassing or cheesy music. Is it my soft voice? Can you not admit to liking a feminine voice?”<\/p>\n
Last Friday (July 17), Goulding released her fourth studio album, ‘Brightest Blue’. The double album has 18 tracks in total and features Diplo, Swae Lee, Juice WRLD, Lauv and Blackbear.<\/p>\n
‘Brightest Blue’ is said to be a “reflection of [Goulding’s] vulnerability and “symbolise growing up and becoming a woman”. According to a statement, Goulding said the album “acknowledges a complex world where relationships still dictate our happiness and heartbreak and can still be the most painful thing in the world, no matter how enlightened you are”. <\/p>\n
(NME)<\/p>\n
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