{"id":484614,"date":"2019-04-12T08:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=821442"},"modified":"2019-04-12T08:47:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:47:40","slug":"ellie-goulding-toasts-her-teenage-fans-on-new-song-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/ellie-goulding-toasts-her-teenage-fans-on-new-song-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Goulding Toasts Her Teenage Fans on New Song \u2018Sixteen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ellie-goulding-sizteen.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>On Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellie-goulding\/\">Ellie Goulding<\/a> released a new single, \u201cSixteen,\u201d with a celebratory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X8biMKq3-ko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lyric video<\/a> paying homage to her teen years and to her adolescent fans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited to share \u2018Sixteen\u2019 with everyone,\u201d Goulding said in a statement. \u201cThat age was such a pivotal year for me in many ways and this song is so close to my heart. It takes me back to the reckless days of being a teenager and I hope it reminds us all about the innocence of youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixteen\u201d was co-produced by Ian Kirkpatrick \u2013 who\u2019s collaborated with the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/britney-spears\/\">Britney Spears<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/julia-michaels\/\">Julia Michaels<\/a> \u2013 along with co-writer\/co-producer FRED and Mike Wise.<\/p>\n<p>Goulding previously released the ballad \u201cFlux,\u201d as well as her collaborative single with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/diplo\/\">Diplo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/swae-lee\/\">Swae Lee<\/a>, \u201cClose to Me,\u201d currently holding the Number Two position on the Billboard Top 40. Goulding recently performed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ellie-goulding-flux-colbert-watch-820054\/\">both<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ellie-goulding-close-to-me-acoustic-colbert-806893\/\">singles<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>The Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/em>. She will also have an original track on the first-ever <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/game-of-thrones\/\">Game of Thrones<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>soundtrack,&nbsp;<em>For the Throne \u2013 Music Inspired by the HBO Series<\/em>, out April 26th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ellie-goulding-sixteen-diplo-swae-lee-821442\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Ellie Goulding released a new single, \u201cSixteen,\u201d with a celebratory lyric video paying homage to her teen years and to her adolescent fans. \u201cI\u2019m so excited to share \u2018Sixteen\u2019 with everyone,\u201d Goulding said in a statement. \u201cThat age was such a pivotal year for me in many ways and this song is so [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 05:43:01","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}