New bunch of musicians who’ll do it for less money

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

It’s been tough times for session musicians and singers the last few months with no work and retainers being a thing of the past.

If you’re this foreign born A/A- list singer, you react to this by sacking your loyal backing band who’s played for you for many years, and get in a new bunch of musicians who’ll do it for less money. Sounds like something her good friend James Corden would do.

Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding: what I’ve learned about myself during lockdown

Zoom interviews have become the norm for journalists and celebrities during lockdown, with people who’ve often never met before sharing the strangely intimate experience of virtually welcoming each other into their own homes. Now, months into this period of self-isolation, many of us have become more acquainted with this new way of working, and singer Ellie Goulding is no different.

“Sorry, I desperately needed a Monday morning tea,” she says, joining me on-screen with a friendly smile. “I have a new baby kitten and he’s very well-behaved, but wants to be social all the time.”

“When I’m in my kitchen in the morning trying to wake up, he’s all over me,” says the artist, who just released her fourth album, ‘Brightest Blue’. “That’s why I’m definitely not ready for kids… I can barely look after my cats,” she laughs. “It’s a good test though, but I haven’t passed.”

As so many of us have also experienced, lockdown has forced Goulding to slow down and reflect. Here, she opens up to Bazaar about what she’s learned about herself during this period, what she’s missed and what she can’t wait to start doing.
What have you learned about yourself?

“Quite a lot actually. I’ve learnt how patient and resilient I can be. It [lockdown] has been such a rollercoaster for all of us, so it’s been interesting to find out small habits and behaviours that I didn’t know I had until this opportunity of being alone.” – Source

Ellie Goulding feels like she ‘never fits in with any other female artists’

Pop queen Ellie Goulding sang about being on the Outside… and today says she still feels like the odd one out.

At 33, Ellie has fame, fortune and is coming up to the first anniversary of a blissful marriage.

Fans love her. She loves them.

She loves women too – with a crush on Spice Girl Geri Horner, an obsession with former glamour model Katie Price and an invaluable friendship with Gavin & Stacey actress Julia Davis.

But Ellie admits the only fellow female singer she has really bonded with is mum-to-be Katy Perry, 35, who attended her wedding to art dealer Caspar Jopling, 28, last year.

Ellie tells the Sunday Mirror: “I’ve never felt like I fit in with any female artists, which is really strange because I love women so much.

“I basically write my music for women and I want women to feel empowered. I want them to feel independent, I don’t want them to feel like they have to rely on a man for happiness.

“So with all that, I do find it strange that I don’t have that connection with other female artists. I wish I did. I follow female artists on social media and I try to be involved but I always feel like the odd one out. I don’t know why.

“If I really need to talk to a female artist who has been through everything, I’m lucky enough to be able to ask Katy for advice. And she is incredible at advice.

“She is funny, she has a great sense of humour. She will tell you how it is.

“She is one person I have always been able to talk to about stuff.” – Source