’I Want To Be The Example I Needed Growing Up: Your Next Pop Obsession Eli On Living Her Dream

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/69036b05230000fb3dbe1e36.jpeg?ops=crop_0_1427_3942_2478%2Cscalefit_630_noupscale" alt="US singer-songwriter Eli is celebrating the release of her debut album Stage Girl" data-caption="US singer-songwriter Eli is celebrating the release of her debut album Stage Girl" data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="RCA" />US singer-songwriter Eli is celebrating the release of her debut album Stage Girl</div><div class="content-list-component text"><div tabindex="0" role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-item-key="1761833383.443069"><div role="presentation" data-qa-unprocessed="false" data-qa-placeholder="false"><div role="document" aria-roledescription="message" data-qa-hover="true"><div><div><div role="presentation"><div><div><div><div><div dir="auto"><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-weight:400">If there’s one thing to know about the singer-songwriter <a href="news/eli/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Eli</a>, it’s that she loves pop music. Like, </span><em><span style="font-weight:400">really </span></em><span style="font-weight:400">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.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight:400">Th