music news Ed Sheeran has a collaboration with Shakira and second album with Dessner

[Nefertiti0]

Ed Sheeran recorded 14 tracks with Aaron Dessner for - ("Subtract"), but that’s not the end of Ed and Dessner’s collaboration.

Ed yanked three tracks from the album that felt too joyous, and realized they were the start of something else. “It was very quickly seen that we were making two different things,” says Sheeran.
He went on to write an entirely separate second album with Dessner. He’s already mixing that one, though he’s not sure when it will come out; he wants to give – a chance to breathe. “I have no goals for the record,” he says. “I just want to put it out.”
“This is how it feels to be in love, This is magical“ he sings on Magical,” from his second album with Dessner.
Another Dessner song, a likely single, has a bright “Solsbury Hill” feel: “Saturday night is giving me a reason to rely on a strobe light,” he sings, amid more meditations on grief.
A third Dessner production is a surging Bruce Springsteen-inspired track called “England.” 

 

Ed Sheeran has five more albums in mind using another category of symbols, one he’s not ready to share, at least on the record.

There is yet another completed album waiting in the wings, a collaboration with reggaeton superstar J Balvin. The album is all ready to go, complete with already-shot videos, but with no release date in sight. He plays a track that bridges Afropop and reggaeton, with Burna Boy joining him and Balvin.
Another Balvin production is a collaboration with Daddy Yankee, with Sheeran singing a hook between rapped verses; yet another is a slower reggaeton song where Sheeran actually raps in Spanish. “I wrote it in English,” he says, “and they translated it in the studio.”
 

There are collaborations with Pharrell Williams and Shakira as well — turns out Sheeran has been writing for her next album, too, because why not?
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ed-sheeran-new-album-subtract-tour-cover-story-interview-1234694319/

Edited March 21, 2023 by Nefertiti0

[M.R.]

🤢

[Slate]

[SchmoodRing]

I have so many questions lol

5 minutes ago, Nefertiti0 said:

There are 14 tracks on –, but that’s not the end of Ed and Dessner’s collaboration.

Ed yanked three tracks from the album that felt too joyous, and realized they were the start of something else. “It was very quickly seen that we were making two different things,” says Sheeran.
He went on to write an entirely separate second album with Dessner. He’s already mixing that one, though he’s not sure when it will come out; he wants to give – a chance to breathe. “I have no goals for the record,” he says. “I just want to put it out.”
“This is how it feels to be in love,” “This is magical“  he sings on Magical,” from his second album with Dessner.
Another Dessner song, a likely single, has a bright “Solsbury Hill” feel: “Saturday night is giving me a reason to rely on a strobe light,” he sings, amid more meditations on grief.
A third Dessner production is a surging Bruce Springsteen-inspired track called “England.” 

 

Sheeran has five more albums in mind using another category of symbols, one he’s not ready to share, at least on the record.

There is yet another completed album waiting in the wings, a collaboration with reggaeton superstar J Balvin. The album is all ready to go, complete with already-shot videos, but with no release date in sight. He plays a track that bridges Afropop and reggaeton, with Burna Boy joining him and Balvin.
Another Balvin production is a collaboration with Daddy Yankee, with Sheeran singing a hook between rapped verses; yet another is a slower reggaeton song where Sheeran actually raps in Spanish. “I wrote it in English,” he says, “and they translated it in the studio.”
 

There are collaborations with Pharrell Williams and Shakira as well — turns out Sheeran has been writing for her next album, too, because why not?
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ed-sheeran-new-album-subtract-tour-cover-story-interview-1234694319/

1. What are the even talking about lol this is alot of information and its overwhelming 😅 

2. Are they talking about his upcoming album and the fact that he already has a follow up ready to go?

3. Then their is also another album ready which is a duet with JBalvin? That also features Daddy Yankee and Shakira :O

[magazine]

oh wow 

[touch]

Woah, that's... a lot to process

[DawnAnti]

No please no make it stop 

[My Tears Ricochet]

Feed us king 

[LilMissFenty]

10 minutes ago, Nefertiti0 said:

Sheeran has five more albums in mind using another category of symbols, one he’s not ready to share, at least on the record.

[vale9001]

an album with dessner

a second album with dessner just few months after the first

 

i'm asking who he is trying to copy. 

Edited March 21, 2023 by vale9001

[vuelve88]

Pharrell Williams and Shakira? That sounds like a She Wolf leftover.  I hope Shakira did not try to pass off a 13 year old demo. 

[305]

So there's 3 albums coming? 

A math album

A folklore album

And a reggaeton album?

[Forevermore.]

Ed Sheeran will truly not stop until he's collaborated with the entire industry 

[Klein]

He is in his folkmore era. 

[vale9001]

Shakira and him are serving summer radio smash . At least in europe it's gonna be huge.

Even his song with camila was big here. 

[PoisonedIvy]

Damn he works a little too hard

[MALAMENTE]

7 minutes ago, 305 said:

So there's 3 albums coming? 

A math album

A folklore album

And a reggaeton album?

Plus he already has another 5 concepts for albums 

[Bloodflowers.]

Sheeran has been writing for Shakira? OMG finally a good English song (since You Don't Care About Me) from Shakira is coming

[vale9001]

His collaborative album with 896 featurings after like just 3 years is doing 1.2M streams daily. Totaly forgotten when you count how many fan bases should listen to the songs. And how 2-3 songs were big hits in 2019. 

 

His last album has produced 2 big hits but it totally collapse when you see album tracks average  streams from his first 3 albums, basically 60% of all the stream is from first 2 singles. 

 

So i really don't understand what he is trying to prove. It seems to me he is not really showing people really loved any kind of genere from him (like "i can make everything gold and classic, also a reaggeton album with j balvin")... so he should focus only on this dessner era imo. That's the kind of music people really like from him, the rest was just throw down into their throat and they have forgot about it. 

Edited March 21, 2023 by vale9001

[lover.]

Just **** off 

[smoore95GAGA]

Remember when he was retiring from music 

[samsclubPRESENTSavam]

Shakira has the worst taste in collaborators.

[Selegend]

it's so interesting how ed's career direction shifted completely 

he wants so much to be omnipresent around the music industry

anyway, that's not a bad thing. just interesting 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Selegend

[Rev8]

Damn

Shakira really wants to have that global domination

 

it's the best time tho!

so good for ha

[Twilish]

Am i reading wrong or is he saying the Bruce Springsteen lite and fun tracks are not on subtract?! 

Edited March 21, 2023 by Twilish