I’d like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

Goulding frames her songwriting as a form of emotional translation across gender lines. The wish that “a male” might listen and be “fascinated” suggests she sees pop music not only as self-expression but as a way to cultivate empathy—inviting men to inhabit, even briefly, the interior experience of heartbreak, sadness, and vulnerability as she understands it. The phrasing also implies a corrective to stereotypes that dismiss women’s emotional pain as trivial or overly dramatic. In this view, the songs become a narrative space where private hurt is made legible and compelling to outsiders, turning personal suffering into shared understanding.