Eli digs deep on ‘The Goddess Of Grieving’, an exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover

NME’s latest star of The Cover, Eli, has created an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below. READ MORE: Eli’s pop star fantasy gets real The rising American pop star is on this week’s (October 5) edition of The Cover, a manifestation of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read Eli’s profile here, written by Bailey Slater and featuring photography by Emma Drew Berson. Alongside her The Cover story, Eli has curated an exclusive playlist, titled ‘The Goddess Of Grieving’. The moody selection includes newer releases from Charli XCX, Ariana Grande, Phoebe Bridgers, as well as classics from the likes of Aretha Franklin and Alice Coltrane. Listen to the full playlist on Spotify below and on Apple Music. Since the release of her 2025 debut album ‘Stage Girl’, Eli has garnered widespread acclaim for her theatrical and utterly head-bopping Y2K-coded pop songs, using deeply confessional lyrics to exhume the pain of past relationships (‘Marianne’) or interrogate the dysphoria and performance of gender as a trans woman (‘Somebody I’m Not’). This combinat...