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"  Photo: Meeno This summer, Ellie Goulding&amp;#039;s iconic breathy voice will be heard live by the masses now that she&amp;#039;s hitting the road with Bruno Mars for the mega Moonshine Jungle Tour. It&amp;#039;s hard to believe the British singer has only released two albums as her indie hits\u2014such as &amp;quot;Anything Could Happen&amp;quot;\u2014have reached the mainstream thanks to shows like Fox&amp;#039;s Glee covering the track. The 26-year-old powerhouse has also collaborated with EDM artists including Calvin Harris and Skrillex; and yesterday, she officially paired up with Mars in New Jersey, where they kicked off of their national tour. So what&amp;#039;s next? In early August, the music darling will release a video for her new single &amp;quot;Burn.&amp;quot; We got the scoop on that as well as which designers she&amp;#039;d love to work with, how she stays in shape on the road, and more.  Did you do anything special to prepare for the Bruno Mars tour? I took a holiday! It&amp;#039;s a long tour so I wanted to make sure that my head was completely in the right place and that I was going to look forward to it and just enter it with the right attitude and everything. I went away to Tahiti for a week\u2014that&amp;#039;s all I could manage. It&amp;#039;s always nice to have a break before tour. How did you decide on your set list? I&amp;#039;m conscious that it&amp;#039;s most certainly not my tour so it&amp;#039;s not like I can play a self-indulgent album track that no one knows. That will still be the case, but I want to play songs that are more energetic and upbeat. Bruno&amp;#039;s set is going to be incredible, and it&amp;#039;s going to be so vibrant and fun that I wanted to try and do my best at warming people up. So I&amp;#039;ve selected my more energetic tracks. How do you feel about playing new songs? I want to always to make sure I have a balance between what the audience will enjoy\u2013whether they&amp;#039;ve heard it before or not\u2013and what we enjoy doing. I&amp;#039;m actually glad I play a set of songs that people either know or vaguely know, and mixing that with songs that the band and I can really enjoy. We&amp;#039;ve been playing the song &amp;quot;Lights&amp;quot; for so many years that now we&amp;#039;ve mixed it up and put this Bassnectar remix at the end. We try to mix up the tracks as much as possible. Did you prepare out any special stage outfits to wear on this tour? I&amp;#039;ve toured with Katy Perry before and for stadium stuff, I make sure it&amp;#039;s a bit more glitzy and eye-catching, because people are obviously so far away [from the stage]. Day to day, I&amp;#039;m way more casual\u2013at the moment I&amp;#039;m wearing AirMax sneakers, a mini skirt, and a T-shirt. I&amp;#039;m a bit of a tomboy but I don&amp;#039;t mind [putting] my legs out. But when I&amp;#039;m onstage, I&amp;#039;ve found this glittery cape and these cool things I&amp;#039;ll probably use over and over again. So it&amp;#039;s definitely more sparkly, revealing, and special. And I wear heels, which I don&amp;#039;t usually do. You&amp;#039;re someone who is known for staying really fit and running a lot. How do you make the time to do that on a big tour like this? It depends. I&amp;#039;ve had tours that are more intense than others. Because this is such a long tour, I think they&amp;#039;ve intentionally made it quite relaxed so I have time to train every day\u2014to find a gym or [go for a] run. And then I&amp;#039;ve collaborated with Nike for the past two years, and they&amp;#039;re going to find me some trainers to work with in different cities. I&amp;#039;m not really going to drink or eat badly. It becomes the norm to drink all the time when you&amp;#039;re an artist on tour because there is constantly free alcohol and food everywhere, so I&amp;#039;m just going to be really strict. Especially after this holiday! You collaborated with Nike on a pair of limited-edition sneakers. Is there any other brand that you&amp;#039;d like to collaborate with? I love working with Nike. There are so many clothes and jewelry brands that I&amp;#039;d absolutely love to do some sort of collaboration with. I just discovered this new brand Filles \u00E0 Papa, which means &amp;quot;Daddy&amp;#039;s little girl&amp;quot; in French. It&amp;#039;s my new favorite label. I&amp;#039;ve been wearing their stuff a lot, and I&amp;#039;d love to do something with them. Sometimes I discover things that feel like they were literally made for me, even though it definitely wasn&amp;#039;t. Are there any beauty products you just have to have with you on tour or at music festivals? Because you&amp;#039;re sleeping on a bus, and it&amp;#039;s not always that pleasant, I make sure to smell really nice. I like to have comforting things, like a really beautiful perfume from Chanel, just to make me feel a bit more special in a bus environment. I use M.A.C stuff onstage like fake eyelashes, blush, and lipstick. I use Laura Mercier, as well. I think her stuff is amazing. For my hair, I tend to just use really good shampoos to keep my hair nice, because it&amp;#039;s so bleached and damaged. I have to really look after it, especially when I&amp;#039;ve got extensions, which I don&amp;#039;t at the moment. What color is your hair naturally? It&amp;#039;s light brown. I&amp;#039;ve been dying it blonde for years. At the moment I&amp;#039;ve taken my extensions out just to give it a break, but I really do love extensions. It makes me feel a lot more girly. And it looks cooler onstage when I&amp;#039;m whacking my head around! I&amp;#039;ve given my poor scalp a rest from the extensions pulling it down so it&amp;#039;s quite short. But it&amp;#039;s cool, quite rock star. Short and messy! Have you started thinking about making any new music at this point? Yeah, all the time. There are so many things I want to do. I want to start the new record, but I don&amp;#039;t want to get ahead of myself because I feel like I have a long way to go with this album. I&amp;#039;m releasing a re-package of the album with so many new songs. My new single &amp;quot;Burn&amp;quot; is one of the most exciting songs I&amp;#039;ve done and I&amp;#039;m really looking forward to when that comes out. I&amp;#039;ve been collaborating with a few people recently [too]. I have such an affinity with electronic music that I can&amp;#039;t step away from it.    Photo: Simon Emmett   After this Bruno Mars tour what will you do next? I really need to take time out after the Bruno tour. This is going to be seven weeks and then when I get back I&amp;#039;m doing some festivals here and there, and touring the U.K. again on this record. I&amp;#039;ll be in Ibiza and New York doing shows. Mainly, I want to spend time at home with my friends and family and my boyfriend.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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