Ella Henderson Singles and Album Discussion Thread
JustArun
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1. We heard Single One recently and hold onto your hats because it is really rather remarkable. It’s a dramatic, stylish belter called ’Ghost’. The song is all about Ella going down to the river (!) to “wash all the pain” and exorcise the ghost of a former beau. Ella co-wrote it with Ryan Tedder, who certainly knows one end of a pop single from the other. The tempo is perkier than you were probably expecting, and it’s a proper move-aside-everyone-here-comes-a-popstar debut single.
2. Single Two and Single Three are both excellent as well. We can’t tell you their names for complicated music business reasons but they are properly big. One of them, a thundering mid-tempo extravaganza, sounds so much like a triumphant X Factor performance that you can almost smell the fireworks. The other is a crunchy, sparkily-produced ballad that everyone will find quite inspiring and emotional. The brief seems to have been ‘smart, modern-sounding and non-boring mid-to-downtempo’, and it works brilliantly.
3. The whole ‘Ella Henderson conquers the charts and leaves everyone else cowering’ campaign is going to kick off next month when ‘Ghost’ goes to radio.
It’s all rather exciting really. Sometimes you get so caught up keeping track of how well former X Factor winners are doing that you forget about the potential stars who didn’t make it to the finals.
Ella, of course, is one such act. In 2012 she made it to Week 7 of the live shows; she found herself in the bottom two with James Arthur, the judges voted to keep James in the competition and for James the rest is history/misery/a complete mystery.
While James Arthur has been keeping himself busy in public, Ella’s been working in the background on an album that will belatedly crown her the true winner of X Factor 2012. It looks like something about Ella (presumably the fact that she’s pretty good) has inspired the highest level of care and attention from Syco since the big Leona Lewis launch we wrote about in 2007. Everything about this screams ‘we’re not pissing about here you know’.
Ella has been allowed to work on her album for almost twice as long as any other X Factor finalist. Sometimes in pop when things take an age you wonder if there’s aimlessness or confusion behind the scenes. With Ella, it just feels like a hugely confident artist launch, from the fact that they’re not relying on an X Factor performance to flog the first single to the names attached to the album sessions: along with Ryan Tedder there’s Eg White, Biff Stannard, Babyface, Claude Kelly, Salaam Remi and TMS. There have been a few YouTube songs and things along the way, but it’s all seemed quite relaxed.
And now here we are, with a corking debut single ready to go and an album (it’s called ‘Chapter One’, by the way) waiting in the wings.
What a time to be alive.
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I wasn't very keen on Ella, but I'm a massive fan of Ryan Tedder's work so I am looking forwards to hearing this.:)
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I'm actually looking forward to listening to this now...
It's not the first time Syco have made big bets on acts though. They worked with Columbia US for 1D and RocNation/Epic US for Alexandra, and both their debuts did incredibly well, so I'll be interested to see how this goes.
The problm with any hype is that its hard to live up to and regardless of my feelings of her as a performer she would probably be better off if they were not praising it so much before any release.
She's going to dominate.
Hopefully they will have sorted those problems out though otherwise she will bomb in the charts.
Hey Lemo - I think it's better this way because they've spent time developing her and put a lot of effort into this album. Also I think part of it stems from the XF stigma (people remembering as the one that the public didn't completely get behind) and wanting Ella to get away from that and relaunch her as a completely new thing...
As long as she gets airplay and enough PR which Syco no doubt manage to achieve with their debuts - I think Ella may do just fine esp with this effort and development.:)
Simon Cowell @SimonCowell Mar 20
The Ella Henderson album is nearly finished. She has made an amazing album.
Also it looks like she has the same management as Luke:
Crown Management @CrownMGMT Mar 21
Mr @SimonCowell is excited for @EllaHenderson...are you?? RT The Ella Henderson album is nearly finished. She has made an amazing album
http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/ella-henderson-ghost-preview/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Sounds promising. ^_^
Parts of it is very Leona-esque.
sounds very good
That part made me laugh, sorry.
The dance mix. This is actually quite brilliant if you ask me
Whoops meant to say hype
but you haven't heard to the real version yet? and I know you like Leah Mcfall from previous posts but the constant banging on about her makes her is getting old and in a way making her un appealing
Yes I have
where?