Well, I'm definitely in the minority here, but IMHO he is a spectacular artist with incredible talent. One of the greatest....
Well.. If you're a Beatles fan there's a chance you might like it. There are some good nods to the group and its history but they're mixed in with a sappy love story.
He started off quite original and then managed to dissolve into a slurry of blandness and every songs sounds the same.
Good to put your neck out. Ed clearly does have something and that may well be incredible talent. You cannot knock his success and it is a long standing success too, despite him still being a relatively young man.
I had not heard that song. I just listened to it. I can somewhat retain the melody of the chorus in my head. "Werewolves of London" is about number 9,000 on the list of reasons Warren Zevon was cool.
I was curious and checked one of his latest "Bad Habits" on yt ...damn! it has over 200 million views!!...it has to be unbelievably great!...I was left underwhelmed...does it say more about meanyway,crazy that this thread morphed into a Beatles thread so soon
He seems like a decent, likable guy in interviews... But I find his music shallow and empty... "I'm in love with your body"? Oh, f--- you, Ed! You have a global platform that where you can say anything you want and that's the best you come up with?
I think Hey Jude has just been destroyed for all time. Like when a Hoffman member tells you about the bad splice in a track and all you ever hear is that splice forever. Ruined.
I’ve been told I look like him, so there’s that. Never knew if I should take it as a positive or negative…
The male Adele (Although uses symbols rather than numbers for album titles). Talented, wrote a few good songs, doesn't look at all like a conventional pop star, and has a whiny voice which for some reason speaks to millions and could now write any old rubbish and get to number 1 off the back of his name. I don't get it but millions love him.
Women (that I know) seem to really dig him - but qualifying that they ‘don’t find him attractive’. I used to despise him, but now, not so much, and he’s not fit to pick out McCartney’s socks. Ed ranges from breathtakingly awful to quite listenable. I’ve only listened to two of his records, but they are a real rollercoaster. Of course, compared to the likes of Megan Thee Stallion, he’s Bowie.
Personally, I wish him every success, long may his success continue - good for him! (Much as I feel about Adele).... but musically, my goodness, he's put out some dreadful stuff.... For me? very poor. Some of his lyrics are astonishingly bad.... and I can't stand his just lifeless, weightless, aimless music. Not for me, then.
I don't know how things are in Oregon but if you moved to Britain I guess you could be in for happy times. Milk it?!
I've never actually heard him on the radio, and I certainly can't name a song by him. But, when my wife and I saw the Rolling Stones in Kansas City several years ago, Sheeran opened for them. I think it's safe to say that the crowd was not overly impressed. I certainly didn't enjoy it. My wife is much less firmly entrenched in the 60s and 70s than I am, and I just asked her what she had thought of him. Her answer was very succinct....."he sucked"
I don't mind ol' mate Ed. A decent bloke with some passable songs. But there's a lot of decent blokes with passable songs out there, and I'm not sure what separates this bloke from all the other blokes. I guess the punters have decided that there's room for just one decent bloke with passable songs, and Ed is it. --Geoff