New Love
by Silk City (featuring Ellie Goulding)

Album: single release only (2021)
Charted: 65
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Songfacts®:

  • This euphoric house anthem is a collaboration between Silk City, a dance project comprising producers Mark Ronson and Diplo, and the British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding. It finds Goulding singing of moving on from a broken romance by falling in love with herself.

    Don't know what I believe in
    'Cause I just kept moving on
    Said I should take a seat
    I know where I came from
    I got new love, love in me


    Goulding has used the power of self-acceptance to get past the wounds created by the failed relationship and her troublesome inner critic. "The song is about losing yourself on your own, not needing to be seen, knowing that the one that got away could be just as happy as this too," Goulding said. "The main concept is dancing on your own not needing to be seen."
  • Though Mark Ronson has known Ellie Goulding since the early 2010s, this is their first collaboration. He said: "It's great to finally get to make something together. Her voice has such a pure tone that cuts through everything."
  • Ellie Goulding has worked with Diplo on several previous occasions, including "Powerful," a track on Major Lazer's Peace Is The Mission album, and "Close To Me" for the English singer's Brightest Blue record.
  • The shimmery dance bop is Silk City's first release since their 2018 hit single "Electricity."
  • Ellie Goulding, Diplo, and Mark Ronson wrote the song with Steve Mac. The British producer has created hits for the likes of Westlife ("Flying Without Wings"), Clean Bandit ("Symphony") and Ed Sheeran ("Shape Of You").
  • The Paris-based production/songwriting duo The Picard Brothers helped Ronson and Diplo with the production. They'd previously worked on Silk City's "Electricity" and Mark Ronson's collaboration with Miley Cyrus, "Nothing Breaks Like A Heart."
  • Ana Sting (Rosalia, Dua Lipa and Idris Elba) directed the music video. It features Goulding playing various members of a nightclub, including its sleazy bouncer and resident diva. Diplo and Ronson appear inside a TV broadcast and as faces on the "missing" section of a milk carton.
  • Ellie Goulding told Capital Dance how the song's original chorus became the middle-eight. "The chorus is not the chorus on the original," she said. "So the original goes, 'If you could see me now. I've got a feeling...' That was definitely in the wrong key, but that was the chorus and now it's just the middle-eight. But they switched it around and I was quite happy with it."

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