I would love for someone to come and refresh my memory at that time because I just don’t remember anything. On Her Dueling Loves Of Classical Music And ’90s Boy Bands: I love that band Glassjaw, more like hardcore. It was always the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I basically bought Kerrang! every week and NME sometimes, but at the time I wasn’t an NME girl because I didn’t really love indie bands that much. There was Killswitch Engage and Spineshank. I like System of a Down and a bit of Deftones - I love their song “Passenger” with Maynard James Keenan from Tool. There’s some great folk guitarists, but I used to like shredding.Īs a teen, you were into nu-metal - which artists did you gravitate toward? Maybe it’s because I’m a George Harrison fan! Also Pearl Jam’s Michael McCready, Joni Mitchell. That’s a much more polite way of saying it. I think he’s had some problematic moments for sure. Tom Morello, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton - although he’s kind of a dick. It’s weird, but I guess I was more focused on singing. I’ve been doing a few tours with no guitar. I’d love to get to a point where it’s just all natural to me. I am going to play guitar for most of it, which will just require a good amount of rehearsals. Then I’ll have a year of festivals, I hope. I’m going to play guitar pretty much the majority of the set when I start touring next year, because my album is coming out at the beginning of next year. In your new “Easy Lover” video, one of the characters you play shreds on an electric. You pursued songwriting after learning to play the guitar, and then your pop career took off. On Playing Guitar And Being A Teenage Metalhead
I’m trying to figure out how to work those with each other.”īelow, Goulding opens up about battling impostor syndrome, going viral on TikTok, and the songs that make her want to kick doors down like a badass. “I think having my son has given me equal vulnerability and strength at the same time. I really want to just do what I do without feeling scared of everything and everyone,” she says. “I don’t want to waste any more time worrying. But welcoming her first child, Arthur, with husband Caspar Jopling last year has lit a fire in her, Goulding says. Working on yourself is not always easy, she admits: In January, Goulding kicked off the New Year by opening up on Instagram about her years-long struggles with anxiety. environment ambassador and recently paid a visit to Ukraine) and wellness (she’s a quasi-influencer on health and fitness topics). These days, she’s working on a more balanced life, juggling her music career - she recently released “Easy Lover,” the first taste of the follow-up to 2020’s Brightest Blue - with other passions like activism (she’s a U.N. When you go home you’re suddenly thrust back into normal life.” “So it’s this constant tugging and pulling back and forth. “When I went away, I would always want to go home again when I was at home, I would always want to be away,” says Goulding, taking a sip from her vodka soda while we chat in a sleek hotel bar in Manhattan. She toured relentlessly in the 2010s and put out three inescapable albums - 2010’s Lights, 2012’s Halcyon, and 2015’s Delirium - teeming with adrenaline-rush electro-pop that dissected the fantasy and fallacy of falling in love. The singles leading up to the album’s release are “ Leathers,” released on September 9, 2012, “ Tempest,” released on October 9, 2012, and “ Swerve City” released on March 30, 2013.For 10 years, Ellie Goulding didn’t stop. And then, as the gut-churning guitars stop, a serene minute-and-a-half of blissful calm soothes and repairs the damage it previously inflicted. It floats in a vacuum of space and time, beautiful and punishing, heart-warming and -wrenching. The near-seven minute epic, is a slow-motion dirge propelled by oppressive riffs and Chino Moreno’s ethereal, disembodied vocals. The same critic on the ninth song, “ Rosemary”: Says Mischa Pearlman, a critic from BBC Music. The Sacramento natives haven’t softened in the slightest.īalancing, devastating, destructive heaviness with moments of nuanced tenderness, these 11 songs confront and comfort simultaneously, pushing and pulling in opposite directions but always moving forwards. Koi No Yokan is a Japanese term which symbolizes the notion of love at first sight. It was among the eight best-reviewed albums of 2012. Koi No Yokan is the critically acclaimed seventh studio album by the alternative metal band, Deftones.