"ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN"-ELLIE GOULDING
Ellie Goulding burst onto the pop music scene earlier this year with "Lights," and while this folk-synth single is still bouncing around on the US pop charts, the English singer-songwriter didn't waste any time issuing a new track from her next album (Halcyon) which is set to be released in early October.
"Anything Can Happen" is still electro-pop, but a little bit poppier… even danceable. The track begins almost Laurie Anderson-like with Ellie's stuttered, sampled vocals, then immediately launches into a booming marching backbeat behind her layered, almost trance-like quivering, innocent sounding voice.
Her lyrics seem to lament over a past relationship gone bad, but the overall message is definitely optimistic. The repetitive nature of the lines "Anything can happen" and especially "I know it's gonna be" both build up to an uplifting pay-off… a soaring, catchy chorus of electronic "Ooohs!"
And I love her poetry, especially the lines: "After the war we said we'd fight together; I guess we thought that's just what humans do." And then later: "Baby, I'll give you everything you need; But I don't think I need you."
Ellie explained to MTV News, "I suppose it's one of those songs where I sort of talk about bits of my childhood, but also about my friendship with this person, and, um, I suppose it's a song of realization." She added, "I hope it will provoke positivity, as opposed to make people really sad."
