Ed Sheeran admits he thought his 'throwaway pop song' Shape Of You was 'lazy'

04 May 2023 , 15:29

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Ed Sheeran admits he thought his 'throwaway pop song' Shape Of You was 'lazy'

Ed Sheeran has confessed that he felt his hit song Shape Of You was a "lazy" track.

The 32-year-old pop star, who has recently been in court amid a copyright battle over the alleged similarities with his song Thinking Out Loud and Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, got candid about his previous releases.

Ed admitted that he'd originally wanted to release Castle On The Hill and then his love song, Perfect, as singles ahead of his album Divide. Instead, his track Shape Of You was released.

Shape Of You climbed the charts, reaching No.1 on the Official Singles Chart and staying there for 14 weeks and it soon became the best performing song of 2017.

The song also earned Ed a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance in 2018 and in 2021, Billboard ranked Shape of You as the tenth most successful song of all-time.

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Ed wasn't fond of Shape Of You (Apple Music)

However, speaking in an interview with The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music 1, Ed admitted he was "wrong" for thinking Shape Of You was "the one," as reported in the Daily Mail.

"I don't want to speak for artists or what they feel though, but I'm just, I've been sometimes not pressured, but sometimes a record label will listen to a batch of songs and be like 'This is the one'".

'It happened with Shape of You. And I will admit that I was wrong there.

"So you didn't want to get behind that song?" Zane asked Ed and he replied: "No, because I kind of, Divide was a different album in my mind. I wanted to go Castle on the Hill first and then into Perfect.

Ed had a chat with Apple Music 1 (Apple Music)

"They were like, ''You have to go with this.'' And we reached a compromise…"

Ed went on to reveal that he though Shape Of You was "lazy" and "so easy," adding: "I just kind of thought it was cookie cutter and lazy. It was so easy.

"I was just like, this is the type of music that people are listening to at the moment and I'm going to write this for this artist for them to sing and in my mind I was like, I've worked so hard on making Divide what it is and crafting it, that putting on, we wrote five songs that day."

He continued: "We wrote 25 songs that week, me and Steve and Johnny just writing. And for me it was just a throwaway pop song that I'd written and I now realize that I was wrong obviously."

The interview is set to air on Friday.

Lauren Gordon