Ellie Goulding's summer of love

Pop star Ellie Goulding may only be 23, but she has had her share of heartbreak. It's not all bad, however; the dark times led to one of the albums of 2010, and the defining song of this summer. Now that she's settled with a new boyfriend, can we expect her to cheer up?As expressions of unrequited love go, Ellie Goulding's new song "The Writer" is a fine – raw, eloquent, generally gorgeous – effort. It is steeped in unrecognised, unrealised passion, in romanticism and sorrow. Her voice is...

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