Ed Sheeran and Cradle Of Filth are planning a collaboration
This is what happens when Ed Sheeran says he's a Cradle Of Filth fan
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Ed Sheeran now holds enough power in the music industry that he can make a throwaway comment about not being opposed to making a “death metal” album and then receive an offer to actually make it happen. After Sheeran name-checked Cradle Of Filth as a band he loved growing up to The Sun, the band’s singer posted a screenshot of the artist’s quote on Instagram and wrote, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Well, now we’ll see it because Dani Filth and the “Bad Habits” singer have been in touch about a possible collaboration.
In an interview with Kerrang! Radio, Dani shared that he’s actually been emailing Sheeran and they’re trying to coordinate working together. “I’ve been invited up to his place. Well, he said he could come down to mine, but I pointed out to him that I don’t own my own bar or village, and it’d be better if I went there,” said Dani. “He said he’d do anything, quite literally. He said he’s a massive fan. He seems like a genuinely very nice guy actually.”
And Dani sounds unfazed by how Cradle Of Filth fans might react to a collaboration with the pop singer. “If someone tells us not to do something, then we’ll do it,” he explained. “That’s been our prerogative the whole time. I did this rap song with this band called Twiztid in America. It’s actually turned out more like Rammstein and Beastie Boys, than full-on rap. So, in that respect, I think [collaborating with Sheeran] would be great fun. I think it’d be great if we did it for charity, because at least it would bring a bit of credibility to it.”
Dani also acknowledged that this collaboration would be equally weird for both his and Sheeran’s fanbases alike, saying, “Obviously to his public, it’d be like, ‘Oh my god, he’s got this weird comical guy,’ and to my public it’d be like, ‘Oh my god, this is a bit weird, isn’t it?’ But I think that sort of thing, nowadays works.”
At least Cradle Of Filth will likely get a song that’s overplayed on Top 40 radio stations out of their collaboration—for better or worse.
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“If someone tells us not to do something, then we’ll do it,” he explained.Well then you should definitely not give me all your money.
Under absolutely NO circumstances are you to punch Ed Sheeran in the face.
If more people followed CoF’s example, we could just tell a bunch of Americans to not wear masks and not get vaccinated.
Please have Ed Sheeran screaming his little ginger head off, rather than stick him crooning over ethereal keyboards before Dani does his bit. Also, bonus points if Sheeran yells something ludicrously obscene about corpses.
I’m in love with the shape of you/We push and pull like a magnet do…meetsMore. Whore. More/Twitching make me wet with thee/Carcass rub me raw
I’m sure it will be terrific.
As a fairly diehard Filth faithful, I’m so looking forward to this. This can’t happen soon enough!
#1. Cradle of Filth is not Death Metal#2. Nobody from either fanbase will likely listen to whatever abomination of music they come up with more than once.
This sounds like something I’ll listen to while I’m setting my shoes on fire.
Damn, it’s Tuesday already? Well, there goes my whole fucking week!
Today I learned that Cradle of Filth wasn’t just a throwaway gag from The IT Crowd.
My freshman dorm had this goth guy who walked around pretending he was a vampire and occasionally biting things, and once, appropro of nothing, announced to a rec room that the best band in the world was “Cradllle of FIllttth” before slurping off down the hall. I too thought it was made-up until years later.
They’re a real band, and a great one at that.
If Cradle of Filth really exists, I mean, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy could even be real, right? It’s like, all bets are off!
I honestly thought that band name was made up for The IT Crowd
Graham Linehan has too much integrity for that.
Ed Sheeran……is a song thief.
I will not have such words spoken about Boyband Van Morrison!
Well it’s a marvelous night for one of those.
inevitable
indubitably.
“If someone tells us not to do something, then we’ll do it,”I mean, way to play down to dumb, reactionary stereotypes there Dani.Sigh.
‘No, Mister Filth, YOU are a cunt’ – Jesus.
Wait what CoF is a real band?
“Ed, when do you need me?” I said “Thursday”. He said, “I’m busy Thursday.” I said, “What about Friday?” He said, “Friday’s worse than Thursday.” Then he said, “What about Saturday?” I said, “Fine”. True story.
The last few CoF albums have been really good; they’ve enjoyed a bit of a resurgence over the last few years. There’s enough goodwill built up that Filth fans won’t immediately dismiss whatever strange collaboration we see.
I haven’t really listened to anything of CoF’s after Midian (that really seemed like such a perfect concept album, TBH, though I’m going to check them out now that you mention it), but this is definitely something I’m planning on listening to the day it drops.And for the punching-bag Sheeran seems to be, I think at worst he seems like a genuinely nice guy and very mediocre pop musician. Plus, I watched his latest video last night because of the news (and I’d never actually heard his music before), and I gotta say…these two might be, at least aesthetically, a good fit?
CoF has a funny, rare creative situation in metal bands where the music is mostly written by an ever-changing lineup of players, while Dani does lyrics and is presumably the guy who says “No, that sounds too much like Paradise Lost.” So you never know how good or bad that next album’s going to be – the quality almost seems accidental.
I’m not sure if I’ve noticed the resurgence but I thought that last album was pretty great.
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