Ed Sheeran presses “Play” for his comeback. This is the name of his new album, which will see the light of day on September 12, and which will mark his return to the top after several commercial disappointments. For this project, the eighth of its career, the popstar was inspired by the oriental and Asian music that punctuated its trips during its concerts around the world. “” I grew up with a lot of traditional Irish music in my home. These rhythms [persans] are a bit the same, they are just different instruments. And then, when I was in China, I worked with classic musicians, it was the same thing He says on the set of Jimmy Fallon. A month ago, the public was able to discover the first single “Azizam”, which is slowly but surely imposed in the charts. Number one in Croatia, third in England, the song already accumulates 52 million listening on Spotify and monopolizes the sixth position of the AirPlay Radio in France.
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A song inspired by his trial
While summer is often synonymous with pop and dancing tubes, Ed Sheeran takes the opposite by betting on a ballad adorned to melt the hearts: “Old Phone”. This new song, which he has already presented on stage, is above all an eventful story. Indeed, the single was born when Ed Sheeran was on trial for his song “Thniking Out Loud”, accused of being plagiarized on “Let’s get it on” by Marvin Gaye. For the purposes of the case, the British musician had to provide all his former aircraft to justice, including an old phone dating from 2015. ” I plunged back into this phone, in vocal memos, photos … When I rekindled it, it’s like I was in a time machine He says at Jimmy Fallon’s. Hence the reason why he opened a new Instagram account to start again from old photos with Taylor Swift, Pharrell Williams or the One Direction.
Immersed in full nostalgia, Ed Sheeran tells in the song to have found, in this old laptop, ” Conversations with deceased friends, messages from all) ». « I thought it was better to leave that in his place in the past / But I felt infinite sadness / of all the friends I miss / to see how my family broke “He sings in this nostalgic ballad, which should be worth a new success in the line of” Perfect “,” Happier “or” Photograph “. On Instagram, he reveals that he wrote this song in India ” At 2 a.m. And share a video where we see it interpreting it on a beach.
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