There remains a little over a month and a half to receive the new studio album of Ed Sheeran with which he will end his first musical pentalogy based on mathematical symbols. But the road up Subtract launches May 5 It will be full of news around this recording adventure. One of them is the interview that the Briton gave to Rolling Stone magazine in which he left numerous titles.
The musician acknowledges that 2022 was the worst year of his life with the loss of his friends Jamal Edwards and Shane Ware leaving him with no desire to live. Literally. It didn’t help that his wife was diagnosed with a tumor that couldn’t be operated on until she gave birth to their second daughter.
A whirlwind of emotions and negative feelings that led him to compose many songs. Many of them are part of his new album and others have simply become his therapy for the future. He keeps the recordings of each of them to defend himself in future plagiarism suits like the one he brought before the London courts where his creative talent was questioned. A legal battle that also caused him a lot of pain.
Ed Sheeran recognizes that he is creating a posthumous album, that is to say a studio album that will be released after the death of the artist. In this interview with RS magazine, he explains: “I want to slowly make this album which is ‘perfect’ for the rest of my life, adding songs here and there. Just to have it in my will and release it afterwards. my death .”
A very surprising confession from the British musician who left other surprising revelations. Like the fact that he already has another pentalogy of records based on a new concept in the works and he even has a Latin project that he is involved in. J Balvin, Daddy Yankee, Shakira, Pharrell Williams and also Burna Boy.
Collaborations with Chris Martin and Justin Bieber already in the oventhe depression he went through, the new family life that made him give up all the excesses he committed (in food, drink…), the EDM songs designed for David Guetta and other djs …
Ed Sheeran is an inexhaustible source of new compositions that never ceases to work and demonstrates his versatility at any time and with any artist. What have you planned for your musical testament?