Elle Exxe - Good To Be Me
At age sixteen Edinburgh born Linda Harrison dropped out of school, wrote and released her first album and drove to London to follow her dreams.
Too young to enjoy the fruits of the capital’s nightlife, she camped out in a boxroom in a local YMCA writing songs and recording acoustic cover videos for YouTube.
Before long she’d racked up over one million views, played her first string of UK festivals and was being inundated with requests from world famous record producers and bigwigs within the music business.
Despite her notoriety Harrison felt unfulfilled, she’d become better known for her sombre acoustic covers than her painstakingly intricate electronically produced originals, and that was her true passion.
Her performances on stage were notably wild, upbeat and energetic with guitars, drums and electronics, but her online persona was the opposite.
In 2015 Harrison reinvented herself as Elle Exxe (pronounced L.X.) and started from scratch.
In the years since the formidable and fully fledged electro clash pop star has travelled the world storming major festivals like V Festival, Sziget, Untold, SXSW and Isle of Wight, climbed into the Top 10 in the UK Music Week charts, gained worldwide radio airplay, garnered rave reviews from the likes of Classic Pop Magazine, GayTimes, Q Magazine and PopJustice, and has even collected her first award for Best Female Artist at the UMAs.
So bringing us up to date, Elle Exxe release her latest single Good To Be Me today, Saturday 20 June.
It’s a track that describes her journey and how music helped fight the struggles with mental health.
Good To Be Me is an electro pop tune, it has a fantastic melody which will have you bopping along. It’s well produced, I love the part when the track is slowed down for one of the verses, when the vocal is accompanied by what sounds like a simple piano key almost sounding like raindrops.
As I said the track tells the story of how the artist Elle Exxe was born, the opening verse “you know I always was an outcast, sitting back of the class, doodling in my pad, the girl school was a prison, so I spent my days wishing,
and sketching my visions” describes the struggles of not fitting in at school.
And the lyrics continue to tell the evolving story, another of my favourite verses describes dealing with the success of being in demand in the music industry but not knowing how to handle it, described by the lines “I was getting love from the labels, sitting at the big boy tables, they told me I was special, I believed them but I was just a sucker baby teething”.
And to cap it all off it has a really infectious chorus “I made it outta my hell damn I’m feeling myself, feels good to be me yeah it’s good to be me, forget mental health I’m rich in mental wealth, feels so good to be me, Ow it’s good to be me”.
Good To Be Me is a fantastic electro bop track, cleverly telling the story of the artist, give this a listen, it will brighten your day with it’s catchy feel good vibes.
Give Good To Be Me a stream now:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Dygt4yuKFHKcli8vYIMAc?si=gW9UhWVGRSez6AZb9_m8og
Elle Exxe can be followed on Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Spotify:
https://www.facebook.com/ElleExxe/
https://instagram.com/elleexxe?igshid=q1h8ffpntk6q
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Y8MTcJjGJ2pHoLVLf9Dpa?si=ZPcQ47xBQz-LqrEGiUugWw
