Ellie just Feels hit was lost

CAL CANNED TUNE

ELLIE Goulding is at the top of the charts with Calvin Harris but she revealed the DJ blocked an opportunity for her to work with Pharrell Williams.

Before they collaborated on hit Miracle, Ellie was supposed to feature on a different dance banger with Calvin and the American star.

However, her Scottish pal didn’t finish the record, and went on to release Feels with Pharrell and Katy Perry instead. Ellie said: “I didn’t know we were going to do another song together, we did a third song a few years ago in L.A., there was another collaborator on the song…

“It was Pharrell, I loved the song, but Calvin is such a perfectionist he was like, ‘No it’s not right. I want to work on it.’

“And then everyone was just like, ‘This isn’t the right moment, this isn’t the right song,’ and then he came out with a whole other project so he put the dance music aside and it was a dance record.

“It was really good I thought, but then he did the project with Katy Perry.”

The singer/songwriter added the opportunity to work with him on Miracle “came out of the blue”.

Ellie could secure a double whammy in the charts this week as her new album Higher Than Heaven is also on course for No1 this week. And the chart domination feeds into her new-found confidence.

She explained: “I feel proud of myself and we have to accept those moments. For so many years I was kind of apologetic about my music, like, ‘Sorry, I’m just gonna sing another song.’

“And I didn’t think I deserved to be where I was and I didn’t put myself up there.”