Beating Heart (song)

Beating Heart (song)
Information
Time	03:31
Artist	Ellie Goulding
Writer(s)	Ellie Goulding & Joe Janiak
Producer(s)	Greg Kurstin
Album details
From	Divergent: (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) & Halcyon Days
Singles	Divergent OST: "Beating Heart" "Find You" Halcyon Days: "Burn " "How Long Will I Love You" "Goodness Gracious" "Beating Heart" "Flashlight"
Digital Singles	Halcyon Days: "You My Everything" "Under Control" "Midas Touch"
← Previous	Find You (Divergent OST) Lights (Halcyon Days)
Next →	Fight For You (Divergent OST) I Need Your Love (Halcyon Days)

"Beating Heart" is a single by English recording artist Ellie Goulding from Divergent: (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014). The song was for the 2014 science-fiction film Divergent. It was released on February 24, 2014 in the US and Canada as a single and will be released internationally on 23 May 2014 as the second single from the album.

The song was later added to the 2014 re-release of Halcyon Days.

Background & Development

On January the 22nd, on Good Morning America, Goulding revealed that she'd be contributing a whole lot to the film's soundtrack.

“I wrote a song for 'Divergent,' called 'Beating Heart,' and it's being used for the soundtrack,” she said.

“	"We started working on the film with songs from Ellie Goulding's album Halcyon and soon found that the texture of her music and the tone of her voice matched perfectly with our film." "In many ways Ellie has become the inner voice of our heroine Tris."	”
—film director Neil Burger said in a release about the soundtrack album.

Goulding added that she recorded instrumental tracks with orchestral accompaniment and that the music they made will definitely surprise both her fans and Initiates alike ... both in the way it sounds, and the way it will be featured in the film.

“	"I basically got to go into the studio, and just be put in front of the microphone for a few hours and sing whatever I wanted to sing," "Not even words, noises and sounds, too."	”
—Goulding told MTV News.

Director Neil Burger said in a press release that Goulding’s vocals are an extension of the film’s lead female character Tris, played by Shailene Woodley.

Goulding also contributed vocals to the film's score, composed by electronic artist Junkie XL with the assistance of executive producer Hans Zimmer.

North Americans can pre-order Divergent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack bundles that include the soundtrack on 12-inch picture-disc vinyl and a poster with names of fans who order, beginning Jan. 24.

The song officially made its premier on BBC Radio 1 on the 24th of February.

Release and promotion

A lyric video for "Beating Heart" premiered on the Entertainment Weekly website on 24 February 2014, featuring scenes from Divergent. That same day, the song debuted on BBC Radio 1 as Zane Lowe's Hottest Record. On 25 February, the track was made available for pre-order as part of the Divergent soundtrack album on iTunes in North America. "Beating Heart" was officially sent to contemporary hit radio stations in the United States on 22 April 2014.

Goulding appeared on the NBC morning television show Today on 12 March 2014 to perform an acoustic version of the song. On 13 April, Goulding performed "Beating Heart" at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, followed by a performance of Zedd's song "Find You"—also from the Divergent soundtrack—featuring Matthew Koma and Miriam Bryant. She also performed the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 15 April.

Lyrics

Eyes make their peace in difficulties
With wounded lips and salted cheeks
And finally we step to leave to the departure lounge of disbelief

And I don't know where I'm going
But I know it's gonna be a long time
And I'll be leaving in the morning
Come the white wine bitter to sunlight

Wanna hear your beating heart tonight
Before the bleeding sun comes alive
I want to make the best of what is left hold tight
And hear my beating heart one last time
Before daylight

And the canyon underneath the trees
Behind the dark sky you looked at me
I fell for you like autumn leaves
And never faded ever green
And I don't know where I'm going
But I know it's gonna be a long time
Cause I'll be leaving in the morning
Come white wine bitter to sunlight


Wanna hear your beating heart tonight
Before that bleeding sun comes alive
I want to make the best of what is left hold tight
And hear my beating heart one last time

I can't face this now
Everything's changed
I just wanna be by your side
Here's hoping we collide
Here's hoping we collide
Here's hoping we collide

Want to hear your beating heart tonight
Before the bleeding sun comes alive
I want to make the best of what is left hold tight
And hear my beating heart one last time

Want to hear your beating heart

Music Video

Information

Premiere date: March 11, 2014 (MTV)
March 28, 2014 (Youtube & VEVO)
Director(s): Ben Newbury
Stylist(s): Sharon Ridoynauth, Liz Taw & Lucy Wearing
Choreographer: ?
Photographer(s):

Robbie Ryan

The music video for "Beating Heart" premiered on 11 March 2014 on MTV. It gone into rotation immediately on AMTV, MTV2, MTV Hits and mtvu on the 11th of March. The video will also be exclusively available for 24 hours on MTV.com.

The video made a premiere on Youtube on the 28th of March 2014 and was uploaded to Ellie Goulding's official VEVO account. The video differed slightly from the version that premiered on MTV. It featured scenes from the film and different shots of Goulding performing the song.

Synopsis

The music video shows Goulding doing her aptitude test. The video begins with Goulding standing in a dark room drinking a liquid similar to the simulation serum in the story and sees herself in a simulation, where she is in a misty forest. She meets a mysterious boy in the forest and as she turns to walk away she is pulled closer to him. The simulation ends and Goulding is seen standing in the same dark room. Following the release of the video, an interview occurred live on MTV.com where Goulding, Shailene Woodley and Theo James discussed Divergent. The music was made available to watch exclusively for 24 hours on MTV.com after the video premiered.

“	"Beating Heart' is about being away from someone or knowing that you're always going to have to be apart from someone that you really love, And it's painful, but it's hopeful because there's always a chance that they'll collide again like two people collide. Like the universe will bring them back together. I think the song is basically that. Sort of relying on the fact that if you're meant to be drawn back together you will be."	”
—Goulding told MTV News

Lyric Video

The lyric video for 'Beating Heart' was uploaded to Ellie Goulding's official VEVO account on the 24th of February. It features various scenes from the film and the lyrics were using the Divergent font.

24/02/14 Lyric Video

28/05/14 Behind the Scenes

Commercial performance

"Beating Heart" made its first chart appearance on the Canadian Hot 100, where it debuted and peaked at number seventy-nine on the issue dated 15 March 2014. The song debuted at number ninety-eight on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated 5 April 2014, having sold 55,000 downloads as of 23 March. The following week, it rose to its peak position of number eighty-eight. In Australia, "Beating Heart" entered the ARIA Singles Chart at number fifty-two, climbing to number thirty-eight the following week. In New Zealand, the song entered the New Zealand Singles Chart at number twenty, falling to number twenty-seven the following week.

Weekly charts

Chart (2014)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)	38
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)	2
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)	10
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)	79
Croatia (ARC 100)	90
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)	20
US (Bilboard Hot 100)	88
UK (Official Charts Company)	9

Credits

Written by	Ellie Goulding & Joe Janiak
Production	Greg Kurstin
Vocals	Ellie Goulding

Published by

• ℗ 2014 Interscope Records

Release history

Region	Date	Format
Australia	23 May 2014	Digital download
Austria
Finland
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
Switzerland
United Kingdom	25 May 2014
Belgium	26 May 2014
Denmark
Greece
Italy
Luxembourg
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden