9/13/2023 0 Comments Ed sheeran bad habitsIt’s interesting that The Weeknd is considered a main point of reference for Sheeran’s new work, not just because his recent music is so obviously inspired by artists before him but because both musicians have attracted several plagiarism lawsuits in the relatively short time they’ve been in the public eye. And as his memorable performance deserved, Sheeran walked off with a mic drop.The song’s themes of indulgence and self-destruction (“my bad habits lead to late nights endin’ alone / conversations with a stranger I barely know / swearing this will be the last, but it probably won’t”) set over an ’80s dance beat have also struck some as similar to The Weeknd’s blockbuster album, including The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis who highlighted his “influence in its lyrical conflation of sex with wracked, compulsive hedonism.” He was surrounded by a record breaking 73,874 fans, standing under fireworks shooting from the top of his stage. Unlike the song, Sheeran didn’t end the night alone. To finish the night, Sheeran played “Bad Habits” to which the crowd clapped along while he mixed the background tracks and then jumped and screamed to the lyrics. “Nashville I am in love with the shape of you,” Sheeran said after playing the song by the same title. The encore started with “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You.” He came back out in a Titans jersey with the number five and “Subtract” across the back and a huge foam cowboy hat which he threw into the crowd. However, Sheeran didn’t stay away from the stage for long. He added how special it was to have sold out shows in America as an Englishman. Sheeran’s band joined him one last time to close his show with “Afterglow.” Sheeran pronounced his profound appreciation for his fans and the crowd that joined him in Nissan for the night. (Hustler Multimedia/Barrie Barto) ( Barrie Barto) Ed Sheeran speaks into the microphone, as photographed on July 22, 2023. I was then transported to slow dancing in a sweaty courtyard during sophomore year homecoming as Sheeran played “Perfect,”but when played live, the song was more alive and less wistful than the radio version of my childhood. He played “First Times” after noting he wrote the song while living in Nashville in 2018, and then “Tenerife Sea” which he wrote in 2013 sitting on a lake in Hendersonville, Tenn. He first sang a cover of a song he wrote, Justin Beiber’s “Love Yourself,” in which Sheeran had the crowd sing the part of the trumpet solo. The rest of the sing-a-long was played solo. “The ones past this point are the ones your grandmother knows,” Sheeran said, “And if you don’t know the words to this song, then you’re at the wrong concert.” Khalid joined Sheeran on stage for their song “Beautiful People.” An additional band member, Alicia, appeared for “Galway Girl” from the album “ ÷ ” to play the fiddle.īefore the band left, they began what Sheeran called the “Sing A Long” portion of the show with “Thinking Out Loud.” He sang a mash up of many hits from the album. Sheeran was referring to the “No.6 Collaborations Project” he released in 2019. “I thought it was a real shame to leave off some of the collaborations that I’ve done over the years,” Sheeran said welcoming his band back to the stage. “Boat” was the first song Sheeran wrote for “–” and closed out this solo portion of the show. During that song he split the stadium in half and taught the attendance record-breaking crowd how to sing both the high and low harmonies along to the chorus. Next Sheeran played “Eyes Closed,” the last song he wrote for his most recent album “–,” followed by “Give Me Love,” which was the first song he wrote for his mathematics series on the “+” album. During “Don’t” he mixed some of “No Diggity” into the middle, calling back to his copyright trial where he used the song as part of his defense strategy. Songs from each of Sheeran’s albums were scattered throughout this portion of the set. He plays alone on stage with a loop pedal, making each night of the show unique as the song is mixed live on stage. After those opening numbers, the energy slowed a bit for Sheeran to start the first of two solo portions of the set. CDT, jamming with his full band to “Tides” from “=” before launching into a high-energy production of “BLOW” complete with pyrotechnics. “Nothing feels better than this moment right here, I am gonna miss y’all,” Khalid said after closing with his song “Better” and exiting stage with a final wave. Crowd favorites like “Location” and “8TEEN” from his “American Teen” album, as well as other songs he had collaborated on like “lovely,” had the fans singing along through his 12 song set. He was a bundle of friendly energy, often pausing mid-song to wave at the crowd and complement fans’ signs. Next on stage was Khalid, another artist who was an essential part of my teenage years.
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