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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