Hello and welcome. It's Is It Just Me? The podcast that talks about all sorts of, frankly, utter nonsense and gives it the seriousness and the gravitas that it deserves. And we couldn't think of a better person to talk utter nonsense with today than one of our favorites, Ellie Goulding. She's joining me, Joe Elvin and James Williams to talk about

her new album, The Brightest Blue, the amazing virtual tour she has coming up at the VNA,

cluttyness, weird lids, and all sorts of other things like rude greeting cards. So we had a

brilliant time talking about it. It's a couple of glitchy bits, thanks to Ellie's patchy Wi-Fi.

We'll do our best to sort that out, but we hope you enjoy it.

Happy listening.

So how are you? The album's out, isn't it? The brightest blue.

Yes.

Another number one album.

I know.

Congratulations.

Yeah, it's nice. It's nice.

Yeah, thank you.

It's been a really strange time.

I'm sure you've heard that sentence from everyone and anyone at the moment.

But there's no overemphasising it, is there?

No, I think it's the one time that we really can say, all of us say that it's been very weird.

But I think with this album, we were conscious of releasing it now.

I'm not going to lie and say, oh, we didn't even, we didn't even cross our minds

that we were releasing it during a pandemic.

I think, I think I was just so, I was so keen to get it out there. You know, there are a few

people that thought I should wait and I just thought, I can't wait until it's been five years.

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