she definitely considered it a reward even if they were AWFUL lyrics, her best friend ginny has florence and the machine credits and she has spent the last two decades making her sing haunted lullabies to her, so, it fits her mood. plus she's a writer herself (fiction though) so she'd never want to turn down the opportunity to give him a sounding board. ellie's going to be filming in la the remainder of this year so that works out perfectly! consider her and her van the giant middle finger he wanted to give everyone, but like, subtly. it probably would've been anywhere from early june to early august, all across the west coast and slightly inland with what was probably at least a couple weeks long pit stop at her farm in montana, and there probably a couple headlines about it! honestly she'd invite him to join by video to do dialogue with her at that point, now he'll regret joining in.