You could put this song on at the office Christmas party and hopefully everyone's going to get twisted to it.” But the more and more my career's gone on, I like to do fun love songs sometimes. “I sometimes find myself in a vice-grip choke hold by the past songs I've written or the genre I'm in, or to always be a meaningful, deep singer-songwriter and write songs that really rip out someone’s heart. It's about what happened: I became a dad and all the noise was just shut off. So the verse is as chaotic as it comes, it’s just noise: This is what's going on my life. I wanted something you could open with in a stadium that was huge, but, at the same time, tiny. I wanted to do that again, but I didn’t really want to rap this time. “I had ‘Eraser’ on ÷, which was me summing up the last few years and letting people know where I was.
But you should listen the way it’s intended to be listened to at least once.” And as you do that, read Sheeran’s intimate track-by-track guide to the album here. Put songs on a playlist, put the album on shuffle-whatever you want. “I don’t care what you do after your first listen. “Please just listen to it once in order, that’s all I ask,” he says. And he has just one request before you press play. All tied together by bare-skinned songwriting, = is Sheeran’s most personal, moving record to date. There’s ’80s-inspired pop (the gargantuan “Bad Habits”), sad bangers (“Overpass Graffiti”), a cinematic piano ballad (“The Joker and the Queen”) and even a child’s lullaby, written for his daughter (“Sandman”). You’ll find tracks from that time here (“First Times”, “Love in Slow Motion”), but-with Sheeran restlessly writing and recording right up until its release- = is a typically eclectic record from an artist who has always delighted in confounding expectations.
“It’s stuff that really has meant a lot to me.” The follow-up to 2017’s all-conquering ÷ was originally conceived as an acoustic record, with Sheeran setting up in Nashville way back in 2018 to work. “The theme of the record is me turning 30, becoming a dad, losing a friend, trying to balance work and marriage,” Ed Sheeran tells Apple Music of his fourth full-length LP, =.
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