Ellie Goulding

Ellie Goulding is an English pop singer/songwriter, perhaps most famous for her breakthrough hit "Lights", aswell as collaborations with Scottish DJ, Calvin Harris on "I Need Your Love" and "Outside". She has been nominated for and won several awards in the past, including two Grammy Awards, several Brit Awards, of which she has won two, MTV VMA and EMA awards, and iHeartRadio Music Awards. She's also won a Billboard Music Award, with her activism bringing her a British LGBT Award in 2019 and a nomination in 2022.

Goulding is set to appear on Muse's upcoming album as a guest vocalist on the song Hush, which also appears to feature Nicholas James Gale of Digital Farm Animals and Theo Hutchcraft of Hurts. In a 2026 Rolling Stone interview, Bellamy said "Over the years we started kicking around some ideas, including the idea of bringing in writers and musicians from outside the original trio. So we tried co-writing a track together. It was a first for me. And it just so happened that at the same moment, Ellie Goulding was in the studio next door — that wasn't planned at all. We were working together with several people, developing ideas, it was very open, just to see where it might go. At that stage it wasn't even a question of an album, it was just an experiment. And then the song started to take shape and it sounded really good. I'd known Ellie Goulding for years. I'd met her plenty of times and we'd always said that one day we should do something together. And by pure coincidence she came into the studio very late, like 11 p.m. I think we were almost about to head home, and she came in saying, "Oh, can I listen to what you're working on?" — we played it for her and she loved it. That's how we came up with the idea of a song, a duet between two people. From there we kept working until we finished the track. All of it was just a happy accident — she was right next door, and there I was, trying things out, and it just happened very naturally like that.".