It was during the phase in his career when he was sofa-surfing in London, gigging constantly, self-producing singles and EPs, desperately trying to make it. Sheeran ordered chips and cheese (cf his 2010 song “One Night”), and then asked the guy to put them back under the grill so the cheese melted.Īside from making him my extremely tenuous claim to fame, this experience cemented in reality for me Sheeran’s status as a grafter. There was, naturally, nowhere in Diss that constituted a suitable post-gig destination, so we ended up in a kebab shop. It was 2010, before he was famous, and he had just played a support slot at the Corn Hall (support! The Corn Hall!), where a small local band I knew were playing. I once ended up on an abortive night out in his company in the Norfolk market town of Diss (as anyone who grew up there, like Ed and I, will tell you, East Anglia is small). What’s not to mock?ĭespite this, I have always felt a sort of dogged loyalty towards him. Rhyming “shape of you” with “push and pull like a magnet do” and rapping that his ÷ Tour “grossed half a billi” remain some of the silliest lyrical shortcuts in British pop history.
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He comes on stage with his hair full of VO5 “putty”, sings his little songs about love, pops to Nando’s with his black card and then goes home to bathe in his piles of cash.
Creator of lad-ballads, wearer of boring T-shirts and modeller of a general aesthetic that could only be described as Perfect-Son-In-Law-core, Sheeran is an easy target for jokes directed generally at the awfulness of pop culture, for jibes from alt-bros about the gullibility of the masses. It is wise to approach artists like Ed Sheeran, who are both colossally successful and toe-curlingly sincere, with a healthy dose of cynicism.
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