I entered my interview with Elle
King not quite knowing what to expect, the loud I don’t care American attitude
I had seen in her music left me feeling a little nervous. I could not have been
more wrong, she was oozing with energy with a softness that came from being a
little homesick touring the world on a bus full of guys. When talking about her
experience on the UK leg she’s quick to name Brighton as the best crowd so far;
‘I felt like shit the whole day and those I’ve learned are always the best
shows, I think we’re all still pretty hungover from Brighton’.
Her debut album ‘Love Stuff’ is a mix of influences with Elle noting she draws a lot of her inspiration from relationships ‘I usually just kind of leave that s**t in the past so I can constantly be dating new people, I’ve only been dumped once and I wrote the song ‘It’s good to be a man’ which allowed me to put a funny spin on stuff and help me get over feeling hurt. I never give anyone the chance to hurt me again’. Elle’s personality is something to be envied by a girl who has never fully grasped the concept of control in a relationship, ‘I would be terrible and write songs about how terrible I was, and then I would leave guys’. She jokes about her one long term relationship as the ‘worst thing that’s ever happened to me’ and I can’t help but wish I could be as confident in myself.
Her UK tour supporting James Bay has been going since the 22nd of September and she played a few festivals including Reading and Leeds ‘ I was so tired and mad my sweet tour manager came into my room and was like come on Elle it's an hour to the show and I was all 'Fuck this Shit' but I walked on stage at Leeds and it was one of my favourite shows of the summer it’s just one of those things. Festivals have this crazy wonderful, Magic-ness to them’.
Head to toe in tattoos I couldn’t help but wonder what it all meant ‘Most of them I just wake up with. The one on my hand is the one that really matters to me, it says ‘Little one’ and I got it when my grandmother passed away, I look down at it and see that and it just makes me feel good. As a band we tend to get tour tattoos and this one is ‘have a good time all the time’ so I’ll probably get that in Dublin.’ There’s an essence of life in Elle King that I have never seen in anyone before, she has a gumption that almost blew me away yet she still managed to be crazy sweet – in short her debut album Love Stuff is available everywhere, freakin buy it here.
Her debut album ‘Love Stuff’ is a mix of influences with Elle noting she draws a lot of her inspiration from relationships ‘I usually just kind of leave that s**t in the past so I can constantly be dating new people, I’ve only been dumped once and I wrote the song ‘It’s good to be a man’ which allowed me to put a funny spin on stuff and help me get over feeling hurt. I never give anyone the chance to hurt me again’. Elle’s personality is something to be envied by a girl who has never fully grasped the concept of control in a relationship, ‘I would be terrible and write songs about how terrible I was, and then I would leave guys’. She jokes about her one long term relationship as the ‘worst thing that’s ever happened to me’ and I can’t help but wish I could be as confident in myself.
Her UK tour supporting James Bay has been going since the 22nd of September and she played a few festivals including Reading and Leeds ‘ I was so tired and mad my sweet tour manager came into my room and was like come on Elle it's an hour to the show and I was all 'Fuck this Shit' but I walked on stage at Leeds and it was one of my favourite shows of the summer it’s just one of those things. Festivals have this crazy wonderful, Magic-ness to them’.
Head to toe in tattoos I couldn’t help but wonder what it all meant ‘Most of them I just wake up with. The one on my hand is the one that really matters to me, it says ‘Little one’ and I got it when my grandmother passed away, I look down at it and see that and it just makes me feel good. As a band we tend to get tour tattoos and this one is ‘have a good time all the time’ so I’ll probably get that in Dublin.’ There’s an essence of life in Elle King that I have never seen in anyone before, she has a gumption that almost blew me away yet she still managed to be crazy sweet – in short her debut album Love Stuff is available everywhere, freakin buy it here.
