{"id":23713,"date":"2019-05-15T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1041650"},"modified":"2019-05-15T10:50:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:50:31","slug":"why-ellie-goulding-almost-quit-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/why-ellie-goulding-almost-quit-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ellie Goulding Almost Quit Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.473090277778\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018116\/rs_634x1024-181206172546-634-ellie-goulding-billboard-me-12618.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Ellie Goulding, Billboard Women in Music 2018\" alt=\"Ellie Goulding, Billboard Women in Music 2018\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"28.330373001776\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ellie_goulding\">Ellie Goulding<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;has revealed that she nearly quit the music business amid her&nbsp;hiatus until she&nbsp;felt &#8220;rejuvenated&#8221; and motivated to start writing and recording again.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old British singer, known for singles like &#8220;Love Me Like You Do,&#8221; &#8220;Lights&#8221; and &#8220;On My Mind,&#8221; is set to this year release&nbsp;her fourth album and her first in four years. In an interview on the ITV show <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W4l6GIKnIH0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This Morning<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;on Wednesday, she opened up about some personal turmoil she underwent before returning to the studio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to [step away],&#8221; she said. &#8220;It was 10 years of nonstop touring,&nbsp;I&#8217;ve toured the world a few times and it just got to a point a few years ago where I really just had to just go away from it all. I thought for a second, &#8216;Maybe I could just quietly go away.&#8217; But I&#8217;ve rediscovered my love for writing and songwriting and I&#8217;m playing guitar and I&#8217;ve started to teach myself piano, so I kind of have been rejuvenated and got back to a point where I really love it again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked by host&nbsp;<strong>Phillip Schofield<\/strong>, &#8220;Did you&nbsp;nearly pack it in? [meaning: give up, quit],&#8221; Goulding said, &#8220;Uh, I thought about it. I thought about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.746932515337\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.9539877300613\">\n<p>&#8220;You know, after 10 years and everything that&#8217;s happened, a it was just kinda just before I met my fianc\u00e9,&#8221; she said, referring to <strong>Caspar Jopling<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/958124\/ellie-goulding-is-engaged-to-caspar-jopling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to whom she got engaged in 2018<\/a>. &#8220;It was just another case of taking it for granted and thinking, &#8216;I&#8217;ve kind of done everything now and maybe I should move on to something new.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>Goulding added that she is &#8220;quite a nervous person&#8221; in general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And now, thank goodness, I&#8217;ve had a chance to take a step back from it and actually, do some normal things like see my family and watch my nephew grow up,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I feel a bit more in control now. I needed that moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1041650\/why-ellie-goulding-almost-quit-music?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP Ellie Goulding&nbsp;has revealed that she nearly quit the music business amid her&nbsp;hiatus until she&nbsp;felt &#8220;rejuvenated&#8221; and motivated to start writing and recording again. The 32-year-old British singer, known for singles like &#8220;Love Me Like You Do,&#8221; &#8220;Lights&#8221; and &#8220;On My Mind,&#8221; is set to this year release&nbsp;her fourth album and her first in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 03:20:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}