\u201cRecording this was like a catharsis, it made me feel so much better – like the prize was me all along,” the singer shared on her first solo release in two years <\/p>\n
\n\tEllie Goulding<\/a> is putting her trust in forces beyond her control. The singer makes her return after two years with the new single \u201cDestiny,\u201d an ode to free-falling surrender that finds her landing on her feet. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cRecording this was like a catharsis, it made me feel so much better \u2013 like the prize was me all along,\u201d Goulding shared in a statement. \u201cInstead of putting my everything into these men, this song was my first feeling of straight-up escape and empowerment.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe record arrives with an intimate video directed by Floria Sigismondi.\u00a0Goulding stars in the visual that captures fleeting moments of tension and bliss alongside quiet chaos. \u201cWho cares what I\u2019ve lost\/I know the cure and the cause\/I got cut from your sharp but I\u2019m still unmarked,\u201d she sings, \u201cAnd who cares what you\u2019ve done with a body like God\/I got cut by your sharp but I\u2019m still unmarked.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhen I heard the track I was in love with it,\u201d Goulding said. \u201cThe idea of adding the choir and strings at the end was for it to become a triumphant moment of freedom like jumping off a cliff. To me it sounds like surrender. It sounds like let it happen. That\u2019s why it is called \u2018Destiny,\u2019 it sounds like what will be will be and accepting it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDestiny\u201d is the first solo release from Goulding since 2023, when she released Higher Than Heaven. \u201cIn the best possible way, this album wasn\u2019t taken from personal experiences. And it was such a relief to not sit in the studio going through all the things that happened to me and affected me. Because I feel things very deeply,\u201d she told Rolling Stone <\/a>about the record. \u201cI got to just explore other things about myself\u2026 Right now, I just want to dance. I just want to sing, I just want to smile.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRecording this was like a catharsis, it made me feel so much better – like the prize was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[8244,93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-140938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ellie-goulding","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}