Ed Sheeran is aware of a factor or two about writing common songs because of his greater than two dozen prime 10 singles on the Billboard Scorching 100. He additionally is aware of an ideal music by one other artist when he hears it, which could clarify why throughout a latest go to to the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast Sheeran was very happy to rain some reward on two of his favourite songwriters.
When host Shane requested if Sheeran remembered the video for Lana Del Rey’s debut single, “Video Video games,” Sheeran enthusiastically recalled that it got here out across the similar time as his debut music, “A Group” and that, in a phrase, LDR’s observe was “unbelievable.”
“I simply [think] that music’s simply form of like the right debut music isn’t it?” Sheeran mentioned of “Video Video games.” Then, requested to call one other flawless debut music, Ed mentioned, with out hesitation, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License,” in addition to Britney Spears’ “Child One Extra Time,” commenting, “there isn’t a higher debut music,” dubbing Britney’s signature observe one of many “prime two or three finest songs ever written.”
Sheeran — who repeatedly displayed a savant-level data of different artist’s timelines and debut singles — went on to say that not solely is “Drivers License” a “nice” music, however each of Rodrigo’s albums, Bitter and Guts, are, in his estimation, “un-skippable… it’s simply, as a file, only a nice file.” Among the many different songs Sheeran had no notes on had been Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Woman.”
Take heed to Sheeran on Therapuss right here (LDR/Britney/Rodrigo) speak begins at 38:50 mark).
