Letting the Wolf In (EP)

## Letting the Wolf In

* Front Cover
* Back Cover
* Banner

## Album Trailer

"**Letting the Wolf In**" is singer Ellise's third Extended Play. It was released on October 15th, 2021, as a Halloween special.

The front cover art, pre-save link and release date for the EP were revealed on October 11th, 2021, and on October 13th, 2021, Ellise shared the EP's tracklist and back cover. Later the same day, an interview was posted, with the EP's announcement trailer.

## Theme

> *The overall theme of this album was fairy tales, so I wanted all the titles to be super cohesive and make sense in that way. I’m always big on song titles.
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> Ellise, via Genius*
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> *Growing up, I loved reading and loved storybooks. Reading has shaped my songwriting and my music in general, as I try to incorporate a storybook motif in everything that I do. I wanted to write each song on Letting the Wolf In so that the whole record would read as a fictional book — less in your face and more secretive and metaphorical, how you would read a book of fairytales.
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> Ellise, via Paper Magazine*
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## Background

During a Zoom meet and greet on May 7th, 2021, Ellise stated that it is likely that there are no outtakes from "*Chaotic*" on her second album or other upcoming projects, which was proven semi-true, since "Play Dead" was considered for inclusion, however ultimately did not make it on the EP.

During a Zoom meet and greet on October 23rd, Ellise revealed that at the end of September she was originally planning to do a 5 track Halloween EP, however, her label advised her to develop the project into an LP. The tracklist included all the songs except "Badthings", "Deadly" and "Breadcrumbs". She confirmed that "Badthings" was a song written without a project in mind in 2020, that "Breadcrumbs" was originally scrapped but added back when the project became an LP, and that "Deadly" was written specifically to be included in the EP's tracklist. The song was written from an unfinished hook that Lilspirit and Chelsea Collins wrote. She also confirmed that "Play Dead" was considered to appear on the project, however it ultimately didn't. It is most likely that she considered it when adding more songs to expand the project into an LP (however the project is now considered an EP after all, confirmed by Over Her Dead Body being referred to as Ellise's fourth Halloween EP on its back cover).

On May 19th, 2021, Ellise tweeted "halloween ep 2021 ? lmk", confirming the existence of a Halloween EP.

On July 12th, 2021, Ellise shared a photo of the files for several of the EP's tracks, via Instagram.

On October 11th, 2021, Ellise revealed the cover art, pre-save link, and release date for the EP.

> *my lil halloween project LETTING THE WOLF IN coming 10/15 🔪🖤 it's scary :)
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> Ellise, via Twitter*
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On October 13th, 2021, Ellise shared the EP's tracklist and back cover. Later the same day, an interview was posted, with the EP's announcement trailer.

On October 15th, 2021, the EP was finally released.

## Tracklist

* Final Tracklist
* Original Tracklist

It is unknown if the tracks are in the correct order. Their order in the final tracklist without the added tracks inserted in between has been assumed to be the correct original tracklist.

### Cut Tracks

***Main Page: List of Unreleased Projects***

* 5th Unknown Song
* Play Dead
* Mirror Mirror

## Trivia

* The EP's trailer is currently set as unlisted for an unknown reason.
	+ The trailer uses a portion of "Wicked Witch of the Westside"'s instrumental.
* Ellise initially didn't identify this project as an album nor as an EP; it's just "a collection of songs". The project was released as an album after Ellise's label advised her to do so, however later with the announcement of Over Her Dead Body was confirmed retrospectively to be an EP.
* On September 2nd, 2021, Ellise stated that she had made 36 songs for the EP.
* There was supposed to be a pre-release single for this EP, however, it was never released. It is currently unknown which song this was intended to be.
* There is a song sharing the name with this EP, however it is not the EP's title track - Ellise instead wrote the song at an unknown point of time before the creation of the EP, and reused the title.
* "Badthings" is the oldest song on the EP, and "Deadly" is the newest.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/ellise/status/1395078878402547712