{"id":807702,"date":"2020-05-21T19:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1004124"},"modified":"2020-05-21T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:02:37","slug":"watch-ellie-goulding-address-superficial-power-dynamics-in-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-ellie-goulding-address-superficial-power-dynamics-in-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Ellie Goulding Address Superficial \u2018Power\u2019 Dynamics in New Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/EllieGouldingPowerVideoScreenshot.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellie-goulding\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ellie-goulding\" data-tag=\"ellie-goulding\">Ellie Goulding<\/a> addresses superficial power dynamics in relationships in her new song, \u201cPower.\u201d The track will appear in her as-yet-untitled fourth studio album, which does not have a confirmed release date. The singer self-shot the song\u2019s accompanying video from her home while in lockdown in London, with creative direction from Imogen Snell and Riccardo Castano of ISSTUDIO.<\/p>\n<p>In the visual, Goulding is alone dressed in various outfits, from intimate apparel to glamorous attire. She\u2019s seen in split screen, full shots and selfies, while she sings about struggling with the power dynamics in an unbalanced relationship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautiful lies on a Friday night\/Starting to wonder where we lost the magic,\u201d she sings into the camera, adding to the intimate vibe of the clip. \u201cHead in the clouds, talking so loud, all I hear is static\/I\u2019m not a material girl, everything in your world just feels like plastic\/Wearing your crown, it\u2019s pulling me down\/You just want the power, you\u2019re not really down for love\/You just want the power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to release this song off my upcoming album as a preview into the world my new album is in!&nbsp;\u2018Power\u2019 is about relationships in the 21st century, how they can now be dictated by social media, superficiality and material things,\u201d Goulding said in a statement. \u201cDating can sometimes start out with lies or embellishments. The girl in the song is disillusioned by love and the cruel, good looking, self-obsessed people she keeps ending up with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new track follows her previously released single, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ellie-goulding-blackbear-worry-about-me-video-967095\/\">Worry About Me<\/a>\u201d featuring Blackbear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ellie-goulding-power-song-video-1004124\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie Goulding addresses superficial power dynamics in relationships in her new song, \u201cPower.\u201d The track will appear in her as-yet-untitled fourth studio album, which does not have a confirmed release date. The singer self-shot the song\u2019s accompanying video from her home while in lockdown in London, with creative direction from Imogen Snell and Riccardo Castano [&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-807702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 11:07:38","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}