Elle Goulding – Love Me like You Do: Too Much Hype!

“Love Me like You Do” is a song recorded by English recording artist Ellie Goulding for the soundtrack to the film, Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015). The song was written by Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ali Payami and Toye Lo and produced by Martin and Payami. It was released on 7 January 2015 by Republic Records as the second single from the soundtrack.
It has been a commercial success, spending four weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart UK, topping the charts in various countries around the world including Australia, Austria, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and reaching number three on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song currently holds the record for the most-streamed track in a single week in the United Kingdom (streamed 2.58 million times), and worldwide (streamed 15.5 million times).
Published on YouTube on Jan.22, the video already garnered a whopping 264,532,016 views!
The video “Love Me like You Do” opens with Ellie walking through a dark building- more like a church with different image representation of innocence and purity as in the statute of praying children. She obviously was in church to pray about finding true love. Nice representation there.
Next scene sees her as a student, getting ready to interviewer this drop-dead handsome young executive.
She walks into his office and their eye contact, his soft smile throughout the interview started a special fire in their hearts.
As earlier pointed out, the song was a soundtrack for Fifty Shades Of Grey which was in itself a popular movie so, naturally, the video had some injection of intimate scenes from the movie. The presence of drama obviously further endeared the song into the hearts of millions.
As observed, Ellie didn’t have to do too much as there were too many scenes from the video which covered up for bulk of the effort she would have put in. However, it was nice for her to have thought of selling the song with the input from Fifty Shades Of Grey otherwise, the song and the video were just too simple, nothing really out of the ordinary.
Yet, give it to her- her voice pitches did it for her.