Ellie Goulding – Beating Heart

“Musically I don’t think I can really fault it.”

Tim: Divergent, a film released last month. Beating Heart, the second single to come from the soundtrack. This, the lyric video because the clips from the film in it are a bit more interesting than the ones in the full video.

Tom: Man, there are a lot of young-adult dystopia books being turned into films right now, aren’t there?

Tim: Oh, this is just the first of a trilogy. And this accompanying it is a very very good Ellie Goulding track. Slightly, um, interesting metaphors in the lyrics (departure lounge of disbelief, anyone?), but musically I don’t think I can really fault it.

Tom: It’s a Soundtrack Song: not going to light up the charts, but it’ll work over the closing credits.

Tim: I’m still a real sucker for her voice, and paired with that big (though admittedly not, by her standards, huge) chorus it sounds just wonderful.

Tom: It is a really distinctive voice, and a perfect match for that chorus — although I’m not sure about “big”.

Tim: Often when I write about a song I’ll just listen to it once or twice before thinking “right, that’s enough”; here I’m ion to my fifth listen already and it’s showing no signs of getting old whatsoever. It’s a great addition to the Goulding catalogue, and I reckon everyone involved should be proud of it.