- 2025-11-13
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MUSIC
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Ellie Goulding Returns With New Song “Destiny”
British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding returned with a new song “Destiny” on November 12, 2025.
The song is her first solo music in two years since the 2023 album “Higher Than Heaven”.
As the single, the track follows the collaborative song “Save My Love” with American DJ Marshmello and German electronic producer AVAION, which was released back in June.
She wrote the song with producer Kurtis Wells alongside Jack Rochon and Livvi Franc.
She has already filmed a music video for the song, directed by Floria Sigismondi, which will premiere later this week.
Ellie Goulding said of the song, “Recording this was like a catharsis, it made me feel so much better – like the prize was me all along. Instead of putting my everything into these men, this song was my first feeling of straight-up escape and empowerment. When I heard the track, I was in love with it. The idea of adding the choir and strings at the end was for it to become a triumphant moment of freedom, like jumping off a cliff. To me, it sounds like surrender. It sounds like let it happen. That's why it is called 'Destiny,' it sounds like what will be will be and accepting it.”- She continued, “To me, 'Destiny' feels like I was finally taking control of my sexuality and surrendering to Destiny, feeling free in knowing that the prize belonged to me in some way, even if that prize was just accepting my fate with a wine and a cigarette. The song focuses on a superficial but intense chemistry with someone that served a purpose, for total sensual and surrendering from a type of suffering, and how powerful it can feel in that moment even if it's not love. This was the first time perhaps that I felt a loving affinity for a person I wasn't in love with, instead a sort of gratitude for their raw acceptance of my need for exploration and catharsis with their sex 'I hit the lotto when I found you' I love the old school romance of that concept. For the first time ever I didn't need a person for validation or protection, and the person didn't need me. But we just wanted each other. That felt like a potent shift in the way I loved myself as a whole. Musically I wanted it to reflect a necessary recklessness that comes with gaining power, over my sexuality, sensuality and embracing the chaos of my life.”
- source : Apple Music
