Singer said he will return to the pop “for the first time in a long time” and played a new song on a television show
Article published on March 27, 2025 at Rolling Stone. To read the original in English, click here.
Ed Sheeran finished working with mathematical symbols, as it did on albums +, –, ÷, X and =. Now it is moving to the buttons of a remote control. During a recent appearance in the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthe musician revealed the title of his next album, Playthe first of a new series of symbols.
“When I was about 18, I had an idea for about 10 albums,” he explained Sheeran. With the first five ready, he is working on Playfollowed by Rewind, Fast-forward and Stop. The musician also said that he was inspired by the filmmaker Tarantino Quentin.
I’m kind of obsessed with Tarantineand I heard that he was making 10 films, and he has his parallel projects like Grindhouse. So I want to make my 10 albums and, from time to time, make a parallel project here and there. ”
The approach to Sheeran to reveal PlayIt has been quite improvised, so far. He released the album title on the Fellon And debuted the new song “Azizam” During a surprise appearance at the New Orleans French Quarter. “I was working with this producer, Ilyawhich is Persian, and we were creating a lot of music and he just suggested that we did something within the Persian culture, ”he explained.
Continuing this trend of improvised revelations, Sheeran Partially debuted a song titled “Old Phone” During the interview. “I participated in a lawsuit a few years ago and they order you to abandon all your old devices,” he said. “So I delivered everything, hung up my phone in 2015 and left it in a box.”
He described the experience as “enter a time machine.” When he took the phone again, he found text messages from two friends who had already died, an argument with an ex-girlfriend and correspondence of a remote family member with whom he hadn’t spoken for a decade ago. “I was rolling down”, Sheeran continued. “It really made me crazy.” When Fallon I drew a guitar, Sheeran He gave a preview of the song, which tells the story in a way close to how he described it.
“I found my old phone today/In a box I had hidden/Nostalgia trying to take me the wrong way/Maybe I undo some mistakes,” he sang. “I charge the battery again/combinations because my password has changed/I opened and saw family names/Now I wonder where they were/conversations with my friends dead/messages from all my ex/I kind of I think it was better to leave it/there in the past, where he belongs/I feel overwhelming/of all the friends that I no longer have/seeing how my family broke/growing up and I found my phone today.”
Although Sheeran not technically taken to the stage for an official presentation, he presented the public with a version of “Shape of You” also. During a segment, the singer and the presenter built the music in a looping station. Discussing the origin of the successful single, Sheeran said: “In all the albums I’ve done, I always thought, ‘let’s try to write a song that we can release to Rihanna. ‘ Type, ‘Love Yourself’in fact, the one I did to Bieberit was originally to Rihanna. I promise you, there will be so many composers out there whose best music came from trying to write a song from Rihanna. “
Finally, Sheeran Recently said to Variety that he would be “returning to the great pop” with the new album for the “first time in a long time”.
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Source: Rollingstone
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