Eli’s The Goddess Of Grieving playlist: tracks and listening links
Eli’s NME Cover playlist pairs Ariana Grande and Charli xcx with Aretha Franklin and Alice Coltrane. Find the 19-track selection and explicit-content notes.
Eli has curated ‘The Goddess Of Grieving’, an exclusive playlist accompanying her October 5, 2026 NME Cover story. The selection is a way into the music she chose for that feature, rather than an announcement of a new Eli album. Spotify and Apple Music both list it as ‘The Cover: Eli (The Goddess Of Grieving)’ under NME, with 19 tracks; Apple’s US page advertises a running time of one hour and 10 minutes.
For a short first pass, try Ariana Grande’s ‘warning signs (interlude)’, Charli xcx’s ‘Persona’, Aretha Franklin’s ‘Drown in My Own Tears’ and Alice Coltrane’s ‘Transcendence’. All four appear in the current Spotify listing. These are suggested entry points into the selection, not Eli’s explanations of the songs. The playlist opens with Colin Hay’s ‘I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You’ and ends with OneRepublic’s ‘I Lived’; Cleo Sol, Lana Del Rey and Mazzy Star also appear along the way.
Use the Spotify listing or Apple Music link below to find the full selection on your preferred service. Check the track labels if explicit lyrics matter to you: Spotify marks Gunna’s ‘one of wun’, Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘cigarette smoke’ and Charli xcx’s ‘Persona’ explicit. The public listings establish the playlist’s identity and contents, not a test of playback, account requirements or availability in every country. Apple’s relative ‘Updated Tuesday’ label is not the date of NME’s announcement or proof of when the playlist was created.
To hear Eli’s own recordings rather than this set of other artists’ songs, her official website links to her Spotify and Apple Music artist pages and a release listening hub. NME identifies ‘Stage Girl’ as her 2025 debut album. That gives new listeners two separate routes: the Cover selection for her song choices, and her own artist pages for her catalogue. The photograph above is from her March 2026 Toronto Stage Girl Tour performance, not the October NME photoshoot.