Ellie Goulding: 'I'd just become a robot'

Ellie Goulding's new album opens with the sound of a crowd going wild, recorded at a festival date on the star's 2016/17 Delirium tour. It might have been Glastonbury, it might have been Rock In Rio, but the location isn't important. Wherever she was, Goulding was drained and tired and unhappy. "I'd just become a robot that was able to walk on stage and perform energetically and wildly," she says. "But actually I was just exhausted, and I don't remember any of it. I wasn't really able to enjoy anything properly."