Music Gear News
At Gear4Music.com we update our news channel daily to ensure you always get the latest and most important music news.
Rising pop star tells songwriters not to compromise
Posted on 12 Dec 2009 10:00 to category : Music News
An emerging pop star who writes her songs on guitar has told songwriters not to compromise in order to get media coverage.
Ellie Goulding, the winner of the Critics' Choice gong at the Brit Awards, revealed that she recently met a band who said they had written a lot of "radio songs".
According to the 22-year-old, she was unimpressed with this statement, as she believes this not the right way to approach songwriting.
Indeed, Goulding told the Scotsman that songwriters should "write blind" and see what comes out.
"I am very grateful if people want to play my songs on the radio," she insisted.
"But I don't make a particular effort to get them radio-friendly."
Goulding added that she tends to write her songs with a guitar, although she admitted her early recordings were not particularly good.
She said she was so lacking in confidence when she put down her first demos that she could not bear to play her songs to other people.
This comes after Goulding told BBC News that Bjork, Imogen Heap and Beyonce Knowles are among her biggest influences.
Related Music News ▼
Inside Out Festival on Saturday 2nd June 2012 features Red Dwarf star Craig Charles headlining, alongside bands such as Young Knives and Haggis Horns. More »
Music fans may want to switch over to Radio 4 at certain times over the coming months to catch a new programme on so-called "New Elizabethans," set to feature profiles of Beatles Paul McCartney and John Lennon, pop star David Bowie and The X Factor's Simon Cowell, among others. More »
The BBC has heralded a forthcoming music instrument extravaganza, which will take place in Stirling, Scotland, this June. More »
Ex-Neighbours and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here star Jason Donovan has picked up a new TV credit. More »
Many Blur fans are sure to be hoping that they will be one of the people to grab a slice of guitar action this morning, as at 9am tickets for four of the band's forthcoming shows were released for sale. More »
Star presenting next series of music show The X Factor. More »
Recent Music News ▼
Get well soon is sure to be the message many music instrument players will want to send one of the most famous piano players in the world, Elton John. More »
It seems to be a match made in musical heaven: they've both parts of funky young pop groups, they're both ex-X Factor contestants and they're both in love with each other! More »
A singer by the name of Phillip Phillips has won US talent programme American Idol. More »
One perhaps wouldn't associate One Direction's often younger fan base with having enough money to stay in the sorts of lodgings that the Gotta Be You boys presumably favour when they're out on the road. More »
Many music instrument players may well have first been inspired to try the piano, guitar - or whatever their instrument of choice may be - by watching BBC favourite Top of the Pops. More »
Ireland's Eurovision entry, famed X Factor contestants Jedward, have managed to progress past the semi-finals stage of the international competition. More »
11213 products currently online
From 370 manufacturers
Gear4music.com is a trading name of Red Submarine Limited.
UK company number 3113256. © 1999 - 2012