But even more so, she knows how to keep her crowd. (Laughing, she admits she thought it was the 'bigger one,' the Garden, until right around sound check.) It's not much of a surprise she's killing every number. Revving the audience with refreshingly un-ironic '90s moves and alternating between mic, guitar (acoustic and electric), and drums (air and real), Goulding has sold out the Theater at MSG to 5000 screaming, dancing fans for the second night in a row. Yet two hours later, she's the leader of the pep squad. 'I'll just slip that on and be on my way to sleep,' she says, pointing to a Simon Preen leotard she plans to wear on stage later that evening. So, curled up on the couch, she talks about her impending nap like it's dessert a la mode. At the same time, she's promoting the film Divergent, whose soundtrack is speckled with Goulding's vocals, including a new track, Beating Heart, she created specifically for the movie with a music video to match. not three days later to kick off her spring tour. Herefordshire-born and London-based, she recently wrapped a string of U.K.

'God, I'm the most boring person you've ever interviewed,' she jokes.

Ellie Goulding is slumped back on a pleather dressing room sofa in the gut of Madison Square Garden, her eyes fixed on a precariously stacked tower of plastic snack bowls as if to say, 'I know how you feel.' It's day two of her North American tour, and the 27-year-old singer-songwriter has gotten just about no sleep.

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