Lights

Elena Jane

“Awhile ago I wrote a review of Rachel Platten's "Wildfire". No album is perfect, but that album is ideal for reviewing purposes; if I had one word for Rachel it would be intellect. Ellie Goulding's songs are more impressionistic and more difficult to write about; if I had one word for Elena Jane it would be feeling. 

But they're both great examples of singer-songwriter pop, and Ellie's work is more than worth working through the uncertainty. 

Track-by-Track (N.B. Apparently this is the US edition, that has "Lights" as the lead track.) 

1. Lights This is a good example of an ambiguous song. I'm going to give two parallel interpretations, one that I've heard elsewhere (fame) and one that I've written about somewhere, but God knows where (love). 

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