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RetroPop: Ellie Goulding's "Lights" and Emily Dickinson's Dark

Music post by Brianna Goldberg on August 20, 2012 - 11:14am; tagged Ella Fitzgerald, Ellie Goulding, Emily Dickinson, lights.

Ellie Goulding promo shot combined with black and white Emily Dickinson portrait and Ella Fitzgerald photo mid-song

For today’s installment of RetroPop, the groove-friendly series in which I invite you to join in on my mashing of lady-driven Top 40 pop songs with great female works of art from the past, I suggest you flip the switch. Turn out those desk lights, turn off your overhead chandeliers, snuff your candles and for goodness' sake unplug the lava lamp. Because today we’re going deep into the dark with sisters in song, Ellie Goulding, Ella Fitzgerald, and Emily Dickinson.

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