This is meant to be a song with just me and piano, but I slightly manipulated it to make it flow with the album. I know that I’ll be performing this song so much, and I’m looking forward to hearing it in its purest form. But I also made sure that the production didn’t take away from the song in any way. It’s me really singing about my honesty and my place as a woman and how I’m feeling, and the feeling that I still need to figure out where I stand and what’s next for me. It was the most simple way that I could really describe coming into womanhood. I love the lyric ‘I’m done listening to another man’s music, so I’m leaving with another drink in my hand.’ I think that’s one of my favourite lines on the album. It’s me expressing that I know for a fact that male artists have been favoured over me for things—regardless of their quality or success. Naturally, that bothers me, and I think that instinctively, for all female artists, they feel like they’ve always had to try that bit harder or go that bit further, when in a fairer world that wouldn’t have to be the case. I think people are finally waking up and there’s a lot of change happening. I love the image of me walking out the bar with a drink in my hand and just being like, ‘See ya!’

–Ellie Goulding via Apple Music