{"id":289645,"date":"2026-02-10T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289645\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:08:08","slug":"ella-mai-there-goes-my-heart-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289645\/","title":{"rendered":"Ella Mai: \u201cThere Goes My Heart\u201d Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London R&amp;B singer <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/ella-mai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Mai<\/a> broke out in 2018 with the sleeper hit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6YNZlXfW6Ho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boo\u2019d Up<\/a>,\u201d which employed its chorus, mimicking a heartbeat, to channel the kind of easygoing romance that puts a skip in your step. \u201cThere Goes My Heart,\u201d a highlight from her new album, Do You Still Love Me?, captures the more demanding somatic rhythms of a love that brings your defenses crashing down. The song begins as a familiar <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/32441-dj-mustard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mustard<\/a> piano-and-fingersnaps ballad, as Mai flip-flops between icing her lover out and wanting to hold him close. This sort of muted, adult-contemporary introspection is hardly out of Mai\u2019s comfort zone, but then a drum fill crashes into the mix and sends the song momentarily reeling, hinting at a pent-up passion she desperately wants to contain. Mai sings in a fake-aloof tone about not wanting to get her hopes up, but the beat\u2019s rickety construction\u2014808s, snaps, live drums, and an urgently ticking clock\u2014undermines her facade. \u201cDon\u2019t look, don\u2019t touch\/That\u2019s the last thing that I wanna do,\u201d she falsely insists; as her trembling high notes arc into the empty space between them, you can hear her avoidance and self-denial start to crumble. \u201cCaptured my heart, you win,\u201d she eventually sings, resigned to the chemistry that was always there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London R&amp;B singer Ella Mai broke out in 2018 with the sleeper hit \u201cBoo\u2019d Up,\u201d which employed its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278,9841,514],"class_list":{"0":"post-289645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-tracks","13":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289645","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=289645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}