Ed Sheeran’s return is just around the corner. The musician will share new music at TikTok’s 2020 UEFA European Championship (yes, it’s the 2020 championship even though it’s technically 2021) event at Portman Road, the home pitch of Ipswich Town F.C. The 2020 event, much like everything else, was moved back a year due to COVID-19. This performance will only be available to view on Sheeran’s TikTok account on June 25, because it’s 2021 (or 2020 if you’re the UEFA).
Known for his solo work, and live performances utilizing pedal loops, the singer-songwriter returns with a full band for this upcoming live stream, entering a new era for Sheeran. In an interview with Radio 1, he said that fans can expect something “really really different” from this forthcoming single. He stressed that he had “done the loop pedal thing for 15 years” and “felt the weakest bits of the tour were some of the songs that needed a band.” Hopefully none of these new tracks will catch him another copyright infringement case.
Much like the rest of us, Sheeran’s taken a break from his grind since 2019, when he released No.6 Collaborations Project, featuring artists such as Justin Bieber, Travis Scott, and Bruno Mars. Before that, he relentlessly dominated airwaves following the release of “Shape Of You” and his third solo album Divide in 2017. His most recent single, “Afterglow,” came out in December of 2020. He told fans then that his next album would be out “later this year.”
“We are honoured to play host to Ed Sheeran for this very special gig during the UEFA European Championships,” Paul Hourican, head of music operations UK at TikTok, was quoted as saying by NME. “He is one of the greatest pop stars of his generation, a truly groundbreaking live performer and I know this moment is going to be truly special for the global TikTok community.”
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Speaking of music, is there no A Sides today? The new Wolf Alice is out!
What is a “TikTok Championship”? Seeing who does the best lipsink to audio taken from a youtube skit? Everyone does the same 20 second dance? Akward staring at the crowd for half a minute waiting for the hook of a song to kick in before they do a quick change while pointing at some text?
Not to step on your jokes, but you’re parsing the sentence incorrectly. It’s TikTok’s event for the 2020 UEFA European Championship (a soccer competition: https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/).
“event” was after the sentence within parentheses that followed “TikTok’s 2020 UEFA European Championship” and I didn’t know what UEFA is. they could have put the nearly dozen-word aside after “event”.
I mean, I didn’t say it was a well-written sentence…
I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any of Sheeran’s music; I really don’t listen to much of anything new (yep, I’m an old fuddy-duddy now) and I’ve had a lot more exposure to people hating the (as far as I can tell, rather anodyne and harmless) Sheeran than to his actual music. Is it one of those things where Internet wankers prove how hip they are by ripping on a middle-of-the-road musician?
Even as a former record nerd jerkface, I’ve got to say that there are better things to do than sit around ripping on bands you hate. You could be talking about bands you like, for one. At the same time, I can dig why people would rather rip on boring, bland, middle-of-the-road bands than on truly terrible musicians. Really bad music can edge over into utterly guileless gold, while bland music is bad in a way that can’t be redeemed. That, and I had the Shaggs album in high school.
Fuck Nickelback, they suck.
Is it one of those things where Internet wankers prove how hip they are by ripping on a middle-of-the-road musician?Yes.
Oh cool, more blandly inoffensive music that will play in the background of restaurants and dentists’ offices that people on here will complain is THE WORST MUSIC EVER RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF RECORDED SOUND.
He may have traded his loop pedals but he’s sticking right with the ‘strung out, ginger hobbit’ look.