"There was just stuff that I really wanted to get out that I was just like, ‘This is it.’ I didn’t want to mess around. I wanted to say exactly how I was feeling. I just wanted to let people know that just because it seemed like I was strong on the outside, I’ve had to recover from stuff over and over again," Goulding says during an ongoing meeting with The Associated Press.
Read MoreEvery since the anthemic, soft-EDM pop of 2010’s “Lights” and its accompanying folktronic album of the same name, the clarion-clear and haughtily emotive British soprano vocalist and songwriter has tested the boundaries of the usually chipper genre with mood-swing musicality. Along with busying her sonic palette with leaps in tremor and tone — from acoustic, gouache-like etherealism to happy stuttering house to maudlin ambient swish with a folk twist — Goulding has shown a willingness to experiment, ever so sneakily, beyond the clarity of her voice and its subtly rousing nature.
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