If there’s one thing to know about the singer-songwriter Eli , it’s that she loves pop music. Like, really loves it, with an appreciation that stretches right back to her childhood, a knowledge that verges on encyclopaedic and a passion that shines through not just in her music and her visuals, but also when we catch up with her just days before the release of her debut album, Stage Girl.

The first time Eli recalls being stopped in her tracks by pop music was hearing Mariah Carey ’s Christmas album as a child in her family home.

“ I know it’s a random one. I wish I could say that Glitter was being played in my house, but it wasn’t,” she tells HuffPost UK, referring to the oft-forgotten Mariah soundtrack album that eventually became a fan-favourite many years after it was ini

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