Ellie Goulding is super proud of her new album Higher Than Heaven. The singer chatted to ET Canada’s Morgan Hoffman about the release, with the host asking how creating new music during a lockdown, as well as having a baby, was.
Goulding, who welcomed son Arthur with husband Caspar Jopling in 2021, said of how much all of the above influenced her as an artist while creating new music: “I think it did the opposite to what you’d expect.
I think maybe there’s a slight delay in my reaction to the pandemic and becoming a mum. “Obviously, it’s such a profound and ginormous change in your life that it’s impossible for that to not affect you as a writer.
You know, your brain is going to be a universe instead of like, I don’t know, a planet. “And so you’ve suddenly got all these new thoughts, all these new feelings.