Ellie Goulding Calls Ice Spice an “Icon,” Shares Advice for Young Female Artists & More | Billboard Women in Music 2024
Ellie Goulding caught up with Billboard's Rania Aniftos and Lilly Singh at Billboard Women in Music 2024. Watch Billboard Women in Music 2024 on Thursday, March 7th at 8 PM ET/ 5 PM PT at https://www.billboard.com/h/women-in-music/
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00:00 We're here with the stunning Ellie Goulding here to present Ice Vice.
00:05 I mean you are a huge fan of hers.
00:07 I'm a big big fan and it's so honored to be here but to be presenting her, yeah, I'm very very happy about that.
00:14 Yeah, she's an icon.
00:15 She really is.
00:16 Yeah.
00:17 I was gonna say this event is so cool.
00:18 It's women in music, it's championing and highlighting women.
00:20 Why do you think events like this are so important?
00:23 Well, first of all, when I walked in here I felt a very different energy to how I usually feel when I walk into any event.
00:30 And that always happens when it's an event focused solely on women.
00:35 It's just a very different type of camaraderie, kind of chemistry.
00:40 It just feels much more relaxed and I feel so much calmer.
00:45 And it's the difference between, like, sorry guys, but being in a room full of women just makes me feel like the best.
00:53 And I love being with my girlfriends and it's the same with female musicians.
00:57 It always just feels like instantly more warm and friendly.
01:03 But yeah, of course this is so important.
01:05 Women are doing so well in music at the moment.
01:08 Last year, this year have been incredible for women.
01:11 But, you know, it's still a male-dominated industry behind the scenes and, you know, on stage.
01:17 And so we need to keep pushing.
01:20 But I'm really proud of female artists right now because we really are slaying and I'm happy about that.
01:26 If I could just get that full answer tattooed on my body.
01:29 I just want it tattooed on my body.
01:31 I mean, could you have gotten a better answer for that?
01:33 And I mean, what advice do you have going off of that for young female artists coming into the industry now?
01:39 You know what, the reason I love Ice-Face is because she's so authentic and she's never tried to mold herself into anything else.
01:46 You know, that's what we felt like we always had to do for men in the beginning, especially men behind the scenes at the record labels.
01:53 And I think that she has just done exactly what she wanted to do and she's told her story completely authentically.
02:01 That's what you have to do.
02:02 And if you really want to do music, then you'll get there.
02:05 You can manifest it.
02:06 You can make it happen.
02:07 But yeah, it's like, you know, as they always say, it's not just the talent.
02:11 There's so many other things that come into it, too.
02:13 But if you're like, look at Ray.
02:15 Like Ray just smashed it at the Brits.
02:17 And, you know, I've worked with Ray.
02:18 I've known her for a long time and it was I was so proud to see her shine up there.
02:23 And she stuck to what she wanted.
02:26 She wanted to do her kind of music, you know, and whatever that was like, it didn't work with with her restrictions, restraints at the time.
02:36 And she just kept pushing through and she did it independently.
02:39 And look where look where that got her.
02:41 So, I mean, that's an inspiration for all female artists right now.
02:44 Authenticity above all else.
02:47 100%.
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