April 7, 20232 yr Taste Like You is a career highlight for me!! Theres a couple that arent sitting well with me at the minute like Just for You, in general so strong. Obviously doesn't reach the highs if Halcyon but this is so good! Initially: Midnight Dreams - 8/10 Cure For Love - 8/10 By The End Of The Night - 10/10 Like a Saviour- 8/10 Love Goes On - 6/10 Easy Lover - 10/10 Higher Than Heaven - 9/10 Let It Die - 7/10 Waiting for It - 7/10 Just For You - 5/10 How Long - 6/10 Temptation - 7/10 Intuition - 8/10 Tastes Like You - 11/11 Better Man - 10/10 All By Myself should not have been included on this album does not fit. Edited April 7, 20232 yr by Rough_edges
April 7, 20232 yr Standouts so far: Midnight Dreams, Like A Saviour, Easy Lover (Solo), Higher Than Heaven, Just For You (!), Temptation, Tastes Like You (!) I’m very impressed. Just For You into Tastes Like You was an incredible find. Edited April 7, 20232 yr by Aaron.
April 7, 20232 yr Just finished listening to this in full. It’s pretty middle of the road for me on first listen, some real good songs but then some that just seem to blend into others. Lights remains her best for me.
April 7, 20232 yr I know having Miracle or not wouldn't make an abysmal difference since the track is neutralised for counting album streams but still fans of the song might see it as part of an album and further investigate and its not like the label cares about the album being cohesive since they already added the Sigala useless atrocity
April 7, 20232 yr Looking at this video, it's easy to see how she fell off after 2015. Also quite frustrating how she basically squandered that success she'd built up. Trying so desperately hard to be American after the wobble of the Delirium era really was such a misguided move. I feel like 2016 and onwards were the years she started being replaced by Dua Lipa as the “it girl” when she failed to do anything off Delirium’s rollout and campaign. By weirdly positioning herself as the soundtrack ballad singer for both 50 Shades and Bridget Jones was such a double edge sword that put herself into a box that I think affected future label expectations and her artistry arc in ways that she’s still dealing with today. This album seems very much a call and response to Future Nostalgia and it’s trying to catch up with what she was doing 3 years ago going by sharing her previous management and enlisting Koz for production. Just like when she went the Delirium route with Max Martin after 1989’s success. Shows either a lack of vision or confidence. Or she and her label and management are content to follow in the direction, soundscapes and general previously (riches filled) trodden paths as others. Edited April 7, 20232 yr by Frawdree
April 7, 20232 yr This is a really solid album. Midnight Dreams, Higher Than Heaven, How Long and Temptation are my faves outside of the singles. All of the delays has seemed to have worked out as the #1 is looking promising!
April 7, 20232 yr Really enjoying it on first listen - solid album, welcome back Ellie after some wilderness years :w00t:
April 7, 20232 yr Hoping this will do better than Brightest Blue alot of good publicity around her today, top trending still on twitter. There's nothing groundbreaking at all om this album well there hasn't since Halycon but it a solid cohesive body this album.
April 8, 20232 yr Reportedly pre sales were 18k for this album not confirmed just from insiders Edited April 8, 20232 yr by Rough_edges
April 8, 20232 yr Well heard the first 11 tracks in full and it’s pretty solid album. It’s up there with delirium as my favourite and miles better than her last album.
April 9, 20232 yr I quite like seeing the refreshing kinds of promotion and interviews she’s done for this so far. In todays world we often hear how every album an artist releases is “the most personal one yet” and how the recording was this and this and you hear the music and you think really :lol: so to her her say it’s the least personal yet feels very accurate and true. I like the album for what it is. Escapism pop done well but it’s pretty strong as a whole piece, flows nicely and feels cohesive. Should be a safe #1 for her so the pushbacks seemed to have worked in her favour! If she makes it to #1 will she tie Adele as the female BRIT with the most #1 albums? Edited April 9, 20232 yr by JLJ
April 10, 20232 yr It’s a really good album indeed. I bought the deluxe and glad I did as there are some great tracks at the end. The pre-release songs have been very well picked though and for me it’s quite a bit better overall than Brightest Blue. So she could very likely do the double this week - proving wrong the people who believe Ellie is no longer relevant.
April 12, 20232 yr It’s a really good album indeed. I bought the deluxe and glad I did as there are some great tracks at the end. The pre-release songs have been very well picked though and for me it’s quite a bit better overall than Brightest Blue. So she could very likely do the double this week - proving wrong the people who believe Ellie is no longer relevant. How does one prove their relevancy by having 5 singles fail to chart, needing 6 months of album pre-orders (with signed Christmas card upsells, signed artwork upsells, signed poster upsells, personalised voicenotes upsells, cheap £20 album + gig tickets incentives, live HMV signings with album purchase upsells, personalised signed copies on banquet records, Zoom competition preorder incentive and live show presales). Someone with actual relevancy probably wouldn’t need a last minute “oh shit, I need to get into the studio with Calvin moment” to save this era along with the gazillion previously mentioned preorder options and then fail to even get 2 million streams on its first day. And then her Twitter chart stans have suddenly stopped reporting everything after its second day of streams, which is hilarious. You’d expect someone with relevancy to have a relevant amount of streams on Spotify to shout about. 44 million monthly listeners and barely any of them choose to listen to the new album.
April 12, 20232 yr Few reductions and different bundles on her store - the alternative cover CD is £5.99 https://shop.elliegoulding.com/?utm_campaig...referrer=direct
April 14, 20232 yr Both her album and single sales this week are relatively low for a number one but this is still an achievement. Ellie has clearly passed her peak and the album might struggle to silver status.
April 15, 20232 yr Debuts at number 97 here in Ireland which is a complete shock as her albums have generally done well here, Brightest Blue went top 10.
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