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Must say Roger Sanchez wasn’t on my Ella EDM bingo card! The 5 second clip on her insta stories sounds a bit soporific I hope it breaks into something upbeat!

Wonder when that was done. Sounds like Hillary Duff in 1993 for an American teen show :0)

Think this was a good solid song. Let down by lack of Spotify HH, it did well on iTunes and AM. From her insta—> Next single is out in October, currently being mixed.

She does get an official credit on the (pretty good) acoustic version. Tbh I’m not sure she wanted her name against the chipmunk version! As long as she gets a few bob I suspect she’ll be happy enough... (Now she’s done EDM with Sigma, Kygo, Sigala, Jax, Sam Feldt and Nathan Dawe— who’s left? Joel Corry, Clean Bandit?

Of course This Is Real was a joint release not a ‘feat’ so she’s kinda achieved that already. They are still plugging away at this. Better on Spotify but I think it will run out of sales legs real soon. Still not a bad result though. Her next single choice will be very interesting!

This was the Suns argument for page 3 against women’s movement critics. The topless models choose to do it, they are proud of their bodies, The Sun just provides a platform for them to express themselves. The reality was The Sun were filling their boots by objectifying women which had consequences for women in society as a whole...

I don’t think anyone is saying women and men shouldn’t be able to freely express their sexuality. But to think this is just about artist personal choice is beyond naive. As Sammy said artists and their images are largely controlled by label executives. Sex sells. Pornography is Culturally pervasive. Big money and the sexual objectification of women for profit was a major target of the women’s movement.

To be clear I mentioned the possibility of ‘a generational thing’ because I am old enough to have personally spent years joining women on demonstrations, protests and marches for women’s rights and opposing the likes of page3, beauty contests and the pornography industry because of the way they pigeon holed women, even though some argued the women ‘choose to do it’... Of course women and men should be free to express themselves sexually and lyrically in music. The issue now as then is whether the adoption of sex object stereotypes for male gratification and/or $$$, with little else expressed as a human dimension, just damagingly objectifies women and young girls. If any women post on here it would be good to hear their views.

I have plenty of energy to call out male sexism thanks, most of us would because women won many of those arguments and battles over the years. I just doubt women artists choosing, out of a spectrum of hard fought freedoms, to be a stereotyped sex object is particularly helpful to women as a whole. That was the page 3 argument. Maybe this is a generational thing. Anyways, peace and love.

Women spent decade after decade after decade fighting for equality and not to be treated as sex objects. Now we have endless arguments about women having the freedom to choose to make a music career out of being a sex object... Using hard fought freedom to ‘choose’ to be a sexist stereotype seems an odd one to me. Call me old fashioned. Funny old world.

Ace of Base rather than a Gaga/Boney M combo. I think this will actually do ok. People like Ace of Base :0)

Tbf Ella did post ‘who dat chipmunk’ on her Insta...

This has performed really solidly. Just lacked Spotify to fully break through.

Yes it is Ella Henderson on the Nathan Dawe track! He did a remix of Take Care Of You maybe that was part of the deal? But I always find it annoying when the singer doesn’t get a credit....

@1286398611551641601 It is Ella Henderson! (Not mentioning the singer annoys the hell out of me, but hey we don’t know the details). Like the song though!!

Apparently Ella does a vocal on the Nathan Dawe ft KSI song Lighter out tomorrow... (Apologies for posting this here, but people might be interested)

Re-entered Spotify top 200 at 199... Someone on twitter saying this is now #5 of top played songs on radio.

I think she should be happy enough with the performance of this. It’s has decent radio support and been in the iTunes top 20 for approaching 3 weeks. Just missing Spotify Hot Hits to make it into the top 40. Her next move, when and what, is an interesting one. She probably needs a 6 to 8 week pause then release her EP with another strong single. To me it needs to be an upbeat pop song, not dance or a ballad....

Tbh Since his comments on slavery, his love in with far right extremist Candace Owens, his MAGA hat wearing loonfest with Trump and now this standing for president nonsense Kanye can (let’s be polite) get lost. I personally couldn’t give that guy any of my money.

Added to Radio 1 B list! (Spotify is still a major problem with this going top 40). Ps. That isn’t really ‘acoustic’ is it!? It’s a pleasant enough stripped down version, but has synth on it. Guess we’ll get a remix soon as well..

Added to Capital’s playlist... (as well as Radio 1 and Radio 2)

She isn’t going to write a dance track on her own. She did write the Glorious EP (which is her ‘real’ music) and it wasn’t great... But what would be great would be to establish a longer term close relationship with another writer.

Ella is ending up on quite an odd position. Quite a lot of dance music success (although she isn’t ‘cool’), but naturally drawn, gifted re melancholic ballads and Soul, RnB. Her best chance of longevity remains I think following an Adele 2 type approach. But for that she needs very strong songs. And she probably has to realise her own songwriting isn’t good enough on its own. A tough self realisation.

So why do you think the Ella Henderson song is #26 on AM and not in the top 200 on Spotify?? Is it just promotion on HH or something to do with her audience demographic??

Ella joining Will Manning on the Big Top40 show today. Earlier was on the Kemps TV show. Already been on Lorraine and Sunday Brunch. Her management are earning their corn on this!