I wrote “Easy Lover” in LA with Julia Michaels after conversations about the age-old tale of being infatuated by someone cool and beautiful knowing that they will never quite feel the same. It’s about going back to the same dangerous person to feel alive when you know they have hurt people again and again before you. Having the legendary Greg Kurstin produce any song of mine is always a dream come true. He always understands the assignment!

—Ellie Goulding via press release (2022)

Another song with Greg—and with the brilliant Julia Michaels, too. She’s an emo like me. We’re two girls that have been falling in love and getting our hearts broken forever and just love to write about it. She’s such a professional, and knows that real feelings and real universal things should not be compromised by trying to write a good pop song. This song was charged up by Greg, who came up with the drums and guitar parts, which eventually became a bit MGMT-inspired on Greg’s part. And Big Sean’s verse works really well.

—via Apple Music (2023)

We’ve stayed in touch for years because he sampled me a couple of times. I always feel like there’s something pretty special in someone who appreciates me that early on as an an artist. So, I’ve stayed in touch with everyone from that era, in particular him because I think he’s consistently been a brilliant artist. At some point we were going to do a collab, and it just happened to be this song.

–via Billboard

I was really nervous that the video would just end up being a representation of the song. But I wanted it to be something else. I wanted it to be a bit trippy, like we’re living in some kind of parallel universe, or we’re all in some kind of simulation, like a video game.

–via Rolling Stone UK