Strange faced Ellie Goulding

I do try not to comment on the appearances of pop stars where i can help it, but every so often i have to make an exception and as i've always referred to her as "Strange faced Ellie Goulding", i see no reason to change now. I do think she looks odd. Her new asymetric mullet hair doesn't help matters either.

I can't get my head around Ms Goulding's latest song and lead track from her second album. She's taken a cut in the tempo of her original material from her first album and Anything Could Happen sits at the sort of pace of a Moombahton track. Whilst i quite like the composition of the song, there is far too much reliance on a stupid earworm of vocal loops created by studio trickery, particularly as this forms the main chorus of the song. Just as it feels the song is going to some sort of epic climax, it slumps back down again.

The other interesting development in her sound has been the appearance of a far more raspy quality to her voice when she's really going for it which has never sounded quite so pronounced before. Quite where it sits with her hiccupy toddler voice the rest of the time, i don't know.

So overall, i really don't know what to think. I find it interesting, but i'm not sure i actually like it and having had a love/hate relationship with Goulding's music in the past (mostly hate if i'm honest), i almost feel as if i should have more of a reaction to it.