Ellie admitted to Spinner UK that there is a lot of her on Lights, including the questions she asks on this song. She said: "I'm quite questioning, I suppose, but then I answer the questions as well. In one song I say 'Who are we to be emotional, who are we to play with hearts and throw everything away?' so I'm questioning human behaviour, asking why we act the way we do when we're in love and infatuated with someone, but later in the song I offer some answers too. I'm a hopeless romantic, and I'm always thinking about what love is."
My Score: 7
Good production but it is the weakest Goulding track bar Your Song.
This gospel tinged ballad features the harmonies of The London Community Gospel Choir. A tempestuous long-term relationship that singer Elly Jackson was involved in provided much of the material for La Roux. This song finds Jackson reflecting on the heartbreak of that on-off relationship. She told the Metro newspaper: "It wasn't the best four years of my life but I had a brilliant time making the music. It was about being brave enough to write down things that I wouldn't have been able to before."
My Score: 7.5
Very interesting to have a dance ballad on La Roux's album. It is actually quite refreshing. This could have gone a little bit higher.
I THINK the main thing I would be pissed on would be a V V Brown track (namely something awesome like Game Over) being knocked... and then also something like a good Marina track like Oh No! or Hollywood being knocked, but I don't really see any of that happening.
La Roux are singer Elly Jackson and her studio partner Ben Langmaid. Jackson started off writing songs in a more acoustic singer-songwriter style, before switching to electro pop. She explained to the Troubled Diva that it was through writing this song, that she discovered the joys of the synthesiser: "I started f---ing about on the synths one afternoon at a mate's house. He used to make tunes in his bedroom. He dabbles in various areas of the industry – a bit of tour managing here and there – and we used to hang out. I used to go up to Dalston and not leave for days on end. He got me to play guitar on someone's track and he said: do you wanna start making a tune, just for fun? And I was like: yeah, OK. Then he gave me a synth and he was like, do you wanna put some chords down on this? And then I was like, f---ing hell, this is amazing!" Jackson added that she wrote this song, which "kinda spurred off my synth love. Then I went back to Ben and said: I wanna do this instead."
My Score: 6
I don't know if the lyrics are strong or weak. Oh well, a weak track by La Roux.