Ellie Goulding’s Next Album Might Be About Climate Change

Even though Ellie Goulding's newest album, Higher Than Heaven, is her "least personal album" yet, that doesn't mean it isn't serious.

Now that her son Arthur is nearing two years old, Goulding is more introspective. She wants to apply that to her music. "I just built a studio by my house, which means I'm going to be in there, playing guitar and getting really deep," Goulding told People.

A longtime climate change activist, Goulding, 36, says she has been getting increasingly upset about the state of the world. While she's never written about topics like this before, it could happen for a future project. People used to ask her, "Will you ever write about the environment?" It made the musician "cringe" before, but now, she's not so sure. "It's starting to make me so angry to the point where I think it's going to end up in a few songs at some point on an album."

In the meantime, she's taking her climate passion on the road for her upcoming world tour. The "Love Me Like You Do" singer successfully conducted a carbon-neutral tour in 2021, and she's looking to do it again. Goulding expressed her frustrations with venues not being more accessible with reducing their carbon footprint. However, she remains hopeful. "If I can inspire every single tour of every musician to go in that direction, I feel like I would've achieved something."

Despite her concerns, Goulding is excited to tour for her new dance album because she knows the fans are going to enjoy it. "Sometimes it's tough performing the emotional songs over and over and over again," the British singer-songwriter said.

Higher Than Heaven is Goulding’s fifth studio album. The new album features 16 songs and is her “least personal album” with a synth-pop/dance feel to it.

2022 has been a great year for pop music, so we made a list of all the best songs that resonated with us. Though there were some amazing albums like The Weeknd's Dawn FM and Beyonce's Renaissance, we selected one song from each album to have a wide-ranging list.

Take a look below at our list of the best pop songs to come out in 2022:

Steve Lacy's "Bad Habit" became exceptionally popular with the help of going viral on TikTok. So much so, that concertgoers only knew the hook and Lacy exposed them. Either way, the song is a smash and you should definitely give it a listen in full.

Britney Spears' major comeback to music post-conservatorship was this collaboration with the legendary Elton John. Using his "Tiny Dancer" as inspiration for the track, the two went hard on this dance hit. We look forward to more music from Britney in the future.

Kim Petras and Sam Smith made LGBTQ history with the track topping the U.S. charts. Smith, 30, became the first-ever openly non-binary solo artist to achieve the feat, while Petras, also 30, became the first openly transgender solo artist to do so.

Add Doja Cat to the Posty Malone mix, and we cannot deny that we like it, we doooooo.

Taylor Swift has been dominating the music industry lately (as she has for years) with the release of her highly-anticipated Midnights album. What we like about "Lavender Haze" is the electropop feel of the song, which is about the media prodding into her relationship with Joe Alwyn.

Calvin Harris' Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 album is an absolute vibe, featuring the biggest names in music (Pharrell, Halsey, Dua Lipa, Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, 21 Savage, Offset). Charlie Puth's vocal and piano addition to "Obsessed" makes it the standout track of the album, along with Shenseea's commanding vocals.

Lizzo is known to be light and have fun, but what we really loved on her Special album were her more serious and vulnerable tracks like this one.

"Call Me Maybe" was a musical lifetime ago for Jepsen, with "Anxious" being a completely different sound from when the Canadian singer-songwriter first hit the scene. Her pop style has evolved and gave us this '80s-inspired track.

The English singer-songwriter gave us an amazing dance pop hit with her lead single "Good Ones" off of her Crash album.

Gorillaz have and always will be a band whose music we can't get enough of. The dreamy "Baby Queen" track is from their upcoming Cracker Island album and has already been making airwaves, featured on FIFA 23's soundtrack.

Rihanna's return to music after 2016's Anti came in with a powerful, heartfelt ballad featured on the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack. With her voice shining through with minimal instrumentation, we are able to appreciate her artistry wholly.

You may know Joji from his comedic work as "Pink Guy," but the Japanese artist's low-fi R&B songs have been notable since his 2018 debut studio album Ballads 1.

We may not know what Bad Bunny is saying, but we do know that we love dancing to this dembow song.

Harry's lead single off of Harry's House is this addicting synth-pop track that, despite its lonely lyrics, gets us dancing.

The Weeknd's Dawn FM supplied us with amazing music and "Sacrifice" is one of our favorites off the '80s-influenced album. The song is edgy and haunting, all while being a lively dance hit.

Sure, we love "Break My Soul" off of Beyonce's Renaissance album, but "THIQUE" makes us feel powerful in our womanhood. The dark trap-infused hip-house beat was produced eight years ago!