--- title: Burn By Ellie Goulding Gets Vintage Doo Wop Cover Video description: Plus, the video features a saxophone that shoots actual fire canonical: https://time.com/56074/ellie-goulding-burn-doo-wop-version/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-09T20:36:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:40.914Z og:title: This Doo-Wop Remake of Ellie Goulding's "Burn" Is Possibly Better Than the Original og:description: Plus, the video features a saxophone that shoots actual fire og:url: https://time.com/56074/ellie-goulding-burn-doo-wop-version/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Doo-Wop Remake of Ellie Goulding's "Burn" Is Possibly Better Than the Original twitter:description: Plus, the video features a saxophone that shoots actual fire twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Doo-Wop Remake of Ellie Goulding's "Burn" Is Possibly Better Than the Original by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 9, 2014 8:36 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 9, 2014 8:36 PM UTC Look, Ellie Goulding’s hit song “Burn” is really, really catchy. It’s the kind of song I’d want to use as the anthemic track in a pseudo-indie flick about a ragtag team of very smart but very troubled teens who, in the film’s key pivotal scene, just let it all _go_ and dance their way to finally _feeling_. Most likely in a field in the middle of the night. Because they’ve got the fire, fire, fire, and they’re finally gonna[ let it burn, burn, burn](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGyEd0aKWZE&feature=kp). Right? Can’t you totally picture the scene I’m talking about? But alas, that’s a project for another day. So anyway, in the meantime, the same folks who brought us a [doo-wop cover of Pitbull and Ke$ha’s “Timber”](http://time.com/5971/doo-wop-timber-kesha-pitbull/) are back, this time with a vintage version of “Burn.” And it’s surprisingly good. Seriously, this might be better than the original. Or maybe I’m just coming from a place of passive-aggression and ennui because I’m pretty sick of the original. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/56074/ellie-goulding-burn-doo-wop-version/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/56074/ellie-goulding-burn-doo-wop-version/"},"headline":"This Doo-Wop Remake of Ellie Goulding's \"Burn\" Is Possibly Better Than the Original","datePublished":"2014-04-09T20:36:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:40.914Z","description":"Plus, the video features a saxophone that shoots actual fire","url":"https://time.com/56074/ellie-goulding-burn-doo-wop-version/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Art","Arts","covers","pop music","vintage"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/56074/ellie-goulding-burn-doo-wop-version/","name":"This Doo-Wop Remake of Ellie Goulding's \"Burn\" Is Possibly Better Than the Original"}}]}] ```