Ed Sheeran supplied one other preview of his upcoming Autumn Variations album on Thursday morning (Sept. 21), posting a video on his socials wherein he offers a command efficiency of the observe to one in all its A-list Hollywood topics.
“Courtney, Courtney, Courtney. I wrote this track impressed by Buddies, the present that you just had been on,” Sheeran defined in a shaky hand-held video to his longtime pal and former Buddies star Courtney Cox. Hanging with Monica Geller in a kitchen, Sheeran then proceeded to play a little bit of the observe, “American City,” on his acoustic guitar.
“We’re a good distance from dwelling/ Haven’t seen you in so lengthy/ Nevertheless it all got here again in a single second/ And the 12 months began chilly/ However I didn’t discover in any respect/ Once we discovered there’s a room we’re each in,” he crooned as Cox smiled alongside to the lyrics from the track that may seem on the Aaron Dessner-produced album due out on Sept. 29.
The lyrics within the pre-chorus actually hinted on the ties to the beloved NBC sitcom that was a launched in 1994 and have become a rankings juggernaut within the years earlier than its remaining episode aired in Could 2004. “We ate Chinese language meals in small white containers/ Stay the life we noticed in Buddies/ Your room it barely matches the mattress/ Get up, go away for work once more/ The wind it appears to blow proper by way of us / Down jackets are the development,” Sheeran sang earlier than diving into the refrain about an “English woman in an American city,” an elevator that doesn’t go to the fifth ground, ringing the buzzer to let somebody in and “dungarees over the hoodie.”
“Wait, that was actually in regards to the present Buddies?,” Cox requested after the efficiency. Effectively, impressed by it, Sheeran clarified. “Cuz you eat Chinese language meals in small white containers.” Cox mentioned she beloved it, but in addition, she puzzled, “do I receives a commission?”
The “American City” preview got here simply days after Sheeran revealed that he can even launch a shock secret stay model of Variations that he recorded in followers’ dwelling rooms throughout the nation; no launch date has been introduced for what will probably be Sheeran’s third new album of 2023. Sheeran will carry out Variations in full throughout two reveals at London’s Royal Albert Corridor on Nov. 18-19; the North American leg of his Arithmetic tour will wrap on Saturday (Sept. 23) at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.
Take heed to “American City” beneath.
