It was a nice, pleasant surprise that it ended up doing so well it was not really intended.”ĭespite her knack for stumbling onto hits, Goulding’s longevity has been no accident.
“And then I jokingly sang this chorus thing - ’I don’t want to be somebody without your body close to me.’ It’s really simple, but it worked. “We were coming up with lyrics, and we kind of hit a wall,” Goulding says. “Close to Me,” a collaboration with Diplo and Swae Lee, also came about during a brainstorming session with frequent collaborator Savan Kotecha. I was like, ‘I’m really sorry - nothing quite works for me,’ and he was like, ‘OK, well, there’s this one other thing, but it’s weird.’ Then he played me, and I was like, ‘That’s it. “Then I remember everything he played to me just didn’t resonate. “When I was a kid, I idolized Spice Girls, and so the idea of writing with the mastermind behind them was massive,” she says. And in true Goulding anything-could-happen fashion, “Lights” came about in a most unpredictable way, at the end of a nearly fruitless creative session with Spice Girls producer and songwriter Richard Stannard. hits that have continued through the decade, including the “Fifty Shades of Grey” smash “Love Me Like You Do,” her Calvin Harris collaborations “I Need Your Love” and “Outside,” and her latest can’t-escape-it single “Close to Me.” That’s about five times the lifespan of many pop stars. 49 in the U.K., it started a string of U.S.
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