THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

304-Ellie Goulding-Anything Could Happen.

2012-Number 5 single.

Best Bit-At 3.07. In an era when great music is at a premium, here is a song which would stand out in any decade of Popular music.

Elena Jane Goulding was born on December 30th, 1986, in Hereford, England, at the time of writing she has released four studio Albums, 38 singles, and eight EP’s. On the UK top 40 singles chart she has achieved 20 hits as the lead artist, with three of those songs reaching the Number 1 spot. She has also had a further three top 40 hits as the featured artist, and a further two (which both reached Number 1) when appearing on collaborative charity songs. In America on the Billboard singles top 40 she has charted on six occasions, with ‘Lights’ charting the highest when reaching Number 2 in 2011.

‘Anything Could Happen’ was the first single released from Ellie Goulding’s second studio Album ‘Halcyon’ from 2012, the song was co-written, and co-produced by Jim Eliot, who also co-wrote with Goulding seven of the 12 tracks on the first edition release of ‘Halcyon.’ Eliot who was born in London, England, has been a member of the ‘Electropop’ duo ‘Kish Mauve’ with the vocalist Mima Stilwell since 2005. The duo are probably best known for providing several of the songs that appeared on the American television series ‘Dirty Sexy Money’ first aired in 2007. Eliot’s other notable successes include co-writing and producing Kylie Minogue’s 2007 UK Number 4 hit ‘2 Hearts,’ and 2010’s ‘All the Lovers’ which reached Number 3. He also co-wrote the song ‘Jealousy,’ which was a Number 5 hit for Will Young in 2011.

‘Anything Could Happen’ is a song about not taking anything for granted, it tells us to live for today, because tomorrow isn’t promised. Goulding has said,’I suppose it’s one of those songs where I sort of talk about bits of my childhood, but also about my friendship with this person, and um, I suppose it’s a song of realisation. I’m hoping it will make people go out and propose to their girlfriends, or go on that holiday they never ended up doing. I hope it will provoke positivity, as opposed to make people really sad.’ On working with Jim Eliot, Goulding said,’This was fun because Jim’s a really experienced, clever producer, but acts like a child like me. We’re both like little kids, just wanting to create sounds, like ‘Oh that sounds cool,’ and let’s see what happens when we do this. It’s like child play, and that’s how ‘Anything Can Happen’ started, it’s quite childlike and quite innocent.’

‘Stripped to the waist we fall into the river, cover your eyes so you don’t know the secret I’ve been trying to hide. We held our breath to see our names are written on the wreck of ’86, that was the year I knew the panic was over.’