Ed Sheeran bring romance in "Thinking out loud"

Ed Sheeran ballroom dances his ass off, ditches his typical garb (hoodies and flannel) for something a bit more formal and shows off sexy new look in the dance-driven music video for his uber-romantic single, "Thinking Out Loud," the third single from the British singer-songwriter's chart-topping sophomore album, "X." The video finds the British redhead in a regal ballroom performing a heartwarming lyrical number with a professional dancer.
This soulful song finds Sheeran tipping the hat to his key teenage influence, Van Morrison. Co-wrote with Amy Wadge, Sheeran wrote this love song about his girlfriend, Athina Andrelos, who works for English celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. And the 23-year-old described the romantic ballad as a "walking down the aisle song (for a wedding)." It's a blatant and mercilessly effective bid for "I'll Be"-style wedding-song immortality.
Sheeran pushes this bold stab at romance past its sappiest moments, and ends the album "X" on a likable note. The song on "X" that's most likely to get the average listener moving is "Sing," produced by Pharrell. But Sheeran throws a curveball with this one, unveiling his hard-won new abilities over a slower number that's heavily-indebted to classic soul.
The accompanying music video, directed by Emil Nava who was shot all at once in 16 mm film, sees Sheeran sports in black suit pants, a black suit vest, and a white Oxford shirt with the sleeves rolled up, exposing his tattoos. His female partner, played by 'So You Think You Can Dance' star Brittany Cherry, 20, is barefoot and dressed in a flowy white gown, lending an ethereal vibe to the video. It's pretty much the girl who does all the heavy dancing, but Sheeran's effort definitely deserves some admiration, as he makes the fan world melt with a load of emotionally-loaded dance moves while executing several lifts and twirls to the romantic love song.

Ed Sheeran sings about the betrayal with "Don't"

Ed Sheeran premiered the dance-driven music video for his beat-driven slice of funk lite "Don't," the official second single from the British singer-songwriter's eclectic sophomore album, "X." Though Sheeran's latest single, "Don't," was inspired by a bitter breakup, the singer has taken a more optimistic approach with the track's new video. Directed by Emil Nava, the clip focuses on one dancer's journey from poverty to wealth, as he limberly pops and locks his way from the ghetto to a mansion.
The Benny Blanco and Rick Rubin co-produced mid-tempo "Don't," the biting cheating anthem is all about a ex-girlfriend who cheated on Sheeran, and moving seamlessly through life. Sheeran almost didn't include "Don't" on the final cut of "X," as he felt it was "a bit too personal." Label and friends ultimately convinced Sheeran. He opened up to Rolling Stone about the song's origins, saying the funky cut was inspired by a real-life romance with another singer who slept with one of Sheeran's close friends while they were staying in the same hotel. But despite internet rumors, the track wasn't written about Taylor Swift, a songwriter known for penning tracks of romantic revenge.
Despite the song's downer lyrics about a celebrity breakup and betrayal, being packed with a pile of attitude and a sprinkle of revenge, the video delivers a cheerier vibe with a rags-to-riches story about a guy who dances his way to the top. Played by the 25-year-old sinewy hip-hop dancer Phillip Chbeeb, aka PacMan, who was a season 5 contestant on "So You Think You Can Dance," and steals the show in a rags-to-riches saga, as he springs into action, locking, popping, high-stepping and levitating up the social ladder and make his way through the city of Los Angeles until he's ensconced in a mansion.
The video opens with Chbeeb sleeping outside on a weather-beaten mattress, but once Sheeran's soulful falsetto kicks in, he wakes up by a shack, and begins his epic dance voyage. After some quick breakdancing, the man walks into his house and puts on a shirt; from there, he slips in and out of several increasingly nice homes. While he's back in the streets doing his routines, he's checked out by Sheeran from his window as he passes by in a black SUV. And he finally arrives at a fancy mansion, where he finds a nice suit to wear, shows off some Matrix-styled moves, and sits by the grand table to enjoy a massive Thanksgiving-style feast.

Ed Sheeran embarks on a wild night out in "SING"

What does a folk-pop superstar like Ed Sheeran do when he wants to get wild in a music video - pop bottles, visit the strip club, nuzzle up against some breasts - without tainting his nice-guy image? Employ a Muppet lookalike to enjoy all the debauchery, of course! Never one to stick with the expected, the 23-year-old English singer-songwriter has gone for yet another slightly unusual twist for the wacky and trippy "Sing" video, which premiered exclusively on his Facebook on Thursday and just so happens to feature the man of the moment in puppet alter-ego form. The great Muppet bender!
"Sing" is the lead single from Sheeran's upcoming sophomore album, "x," due out June 23rd. "The reason I chose this song to be the first single is, I think if I put out an acoustic ballad first, everyone would be like 'ehh, it's alright,'" Sheeran explained. "But with this, you get people who are either going to love it or going to hate it, but at least they're going to be talking about it." Featuring Pharrell Williams, who also co-produced the song with Sheeran, the track, which has pop and R&B influences and was apparently inspired by singer Justin Timberlake, is a considered a departure from Sheeran's folk rock sound.
The lyrics are about "a night out in Vegas." It was inspired by a girl that Sheeran met in Las Vegas in the summer of 2013, when "one thing led to another and now she's kissing my mouth." After the events described in the song, the pair went out for sushi. Commenting on his rapping and falsetto singing on the track, Sheeran told Ryan Seacrest: "I feel like I was veering off in one direction with that song. [It was] a very R&B led song and I wanted to pull it back and make it English so that's why I put the rap in it."
A van swerving out of control on a road before crashing into a pile of stacked cardboard boxes, and Asian business men getting entertained by an Sheeran-looking puppet? Yes, these are two scenes that make "Sing" one of Sheeran's weirdest clips to date. Muppet Sheeran is out for the night of his Muppet life, bringing his fuzzy red hair and leather jacket to bar after bar and picking up some blonde beauties on the way. The human Sheeran doesn't appear until the first chorus drops, and after the Muppet visits the strip club and vomits confetti, he stops by to pick up his human counterpart and Williams. Then: karaoke, most likely on Avenue Q. Watch Sheeran, Muppet Sheeran and Williams embark on a wild night out.

Ed Sheeran captures emotions in 'all of the stars'

Ed Sheeran continued with his new music and turned weekend into a real sobfest with the release of the new video for the upcoming film "The Fault in Our Stars" soundtrack number "All of the Stars," and it's a heartbreaker. The British singer knows his way around a heartbreaking love song, so it's no surprise on this one. Directed by Josh Boone, the romantic drama comedy, hits theaters June 6, is based on John Green's bestselling novel and stars "Divergent" actress Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as two individuals who meet at a cancer support group meeting and fall in love.
Sidestepping his recent fare, which found Sheeran veering into funkier directions with his music, "All of the Stars" slots more snugly in the singer's softer acoustic rock presentation for which he came to be known originally. Accompanied by guitar and piano, Sheeran croons, "It's just another night/ and I'm staring at the moon," Sheeran sings pensively to start the tune, accompanied by warm piano notes, "I saw a shooting star and I thought of you." The chorus of "All of the Stars" kicks up the momentum a bit, acoustic guitar and piano complemented by percussion and the occasional strum of electric guitar, Sheeran crooning about "all of these stars will guide us home."
"I can hear your heart on the radio beat/ They're playing 'Chasing Cars'/ And I thought of you/ Back to our time/ How you and I used to be," he sings, remembering listening to Snow Patrol with a lost love. The track is all about falling in love under the stars, and the video captures the emotions perfectly, and this may just be Sheeran's most emotional video yet. It features fan-generated messages of encouragement submitted via Instagram. More than 5000 entries were received over a three day period, which is impressive given that the participants had no idea their handiwork would end up in the Brit's visual.
The finished product is a simple collage of encouraging fan art and all sorts of positive signs, drawings, affirmations and other inspirational quotes from John Green's novel to the story thrown in and posted on a wall, with the occasional snippet of film footage. It suits the sparse, emotional approach of "All Of The Stars." Sheeran essentially had the world's easiest job for this one and despite having a sing, he doesn't actually show his pretty little face until the last possible minute when the camera zooms out and the 23-year old artist is seen brooding on a couch, singing the song's final lyrics "I can see the stars from America." Watch and listen and try not to cry.

Ed Sheeran sings about flames in "I See Fire"

Ed Sheeran has shared the music video for the intimate acoustic folk ballad "I See Fire," an original song he wrote for the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's upcoming Hobbit sequel film "The Desolation of Smaug," which is due out on December 13. The song is available to purchase on iTunes, while "The Desolation of Smaug" soundtrack is currently available for pre-order ahead of its December 10th release date. Sheeran has been hard at work on a follow-up to his massive debut LP, 2011's "+." In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he claims to be planning three albums for the next three years.
The haunting track is right in line with Sheeran's trademark style, filled with dramatic crooning and quiet acoustic guitars. Sheeran penned the emotional ballad "I See Fire" for the end credits of the movie. His first solo track released in two years gave Sheeran the opportunity to produce the song and play all the instruments, including picking up a violin for the first time. "Managed to learn violin for a day," he tweeted earlier last week. "Hope you all dig it." The haunting a cappella open of the tune proves that Sheeran totally nailed the "Hobbit" sensibility. "Oh misty eye of the mountain below/Keep careful watch of my brothers' souls," he sings.
"And should the sky be filled with fire and smoke/Keep watching over Durin's son." A gently strummed acoustic guitar then comes in as Sheeran sings anew about fire and flames, grasping at ropes, raising glasses of wine and dying in unison. There are promises of more fire and flames, that is, until "Desolation comes upon the sky." The stark black-and-white video shows the British songwriter in the recording studio, laying down his vocal harmonies and guitar. Jackson captured the moment when a starry-eyed, hoodie-wearing Sheeran first walked into the studio, looking surprised by the camera and asking where he should set up his gear.
It's a fittingly intimate clip for Sheeran, who actually produced and recorded all the instruments himself (apart from the weepy cello line). The black-and-white performance footage of Sheeran is intercut with full-color scenes from the film, which, of course, also contain images of fire, so much fire. At one point, the studio scene switches to color and we see the singer sitting on the arm of a couch playing the song's melancholy violin solo and tweaking lyrics on this laptop. The nearly six-minute clip ends with a grinning Sheeran getting his photo taken with Jackson and some of the other essential soundtrack crew in the studio.

Taylor Swift debuts "Everything Has Changed"

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are fully return from cynical adults to the wonders of childhood and play princess and knight in the impossibly adorable video for their collaboration single, "Everything Has Changed," the fifth single off Swift's multi-platinum fourth studio album "Red." They showcase miniature doppelgängers building an everlasting friendship and first childhood love at a tender age. "I've been excited about this for a very long time. Now I get to share it with you," Swift tweeted.
"Everything Has Changed" is a country pop song in an acoustic style. The lyrical content explores two lovers finding the things around them changing after they first met. Swift described the track as simply "about falling in love. It's about meeting someone and all of a sudden your entire perspective on the world changes - you're thinking for two, instead of one." She also told MTV News how she transforms her emotions into songs. "When I'm writing a song, I'm so in that zone that it's really sort of a trance I go into and I'm just kind of thinking about what I would say to this person that I'm writing the song about if I could just say whatever I wanted to them right now; that's kind of where I go in my head."
Though Sheeran comes from a folk background and Swift a country one, they serenade each other on this sweet duet about the sudden impact of new romance. Thematically, this is Swift at her most familiar and clichéd, but Sheeran's tender harmonies lend the song some much-needed depth. It is a gorgeous love song that uses simplicity as its prime weapon - it's just the two of them, a vague guitar, and almost distant drums - in order to show that she doesn’t need any extra effects to still write a stirring ballad. Rather, her sense of harmony will do the track just fine.
This has got to be the most adorable thing ever! The super sweet video follows a tall, longhaired little girl goes on the school bus and interacts with a redheaded little boy. It is clear that they are meant to look like miniature versions of Swift and Sheeran. They play together and get adventurous at school and strike up a friendship that sees the pair doing arts and crafts, building forts and experiencing life, as only a child knows how. The climax of the clip is a heart-melting slow dance in an empty gymnasium; just try to resist the urge to sob, even before Swift and Sheeran show up as their parents at the end.

Ed Sheeran shares a dark story in "The A Team"

Ed Sheeran managed to rise above all the EDM-influenced noise last year. The 22-year-old Brit singer's debut moody, acoustic ballad, "The A Team," seems like an unlikely pop hit given Top 40's obsession with club music and up-tempo jams. But somehow, its heavy topics under a beautiful folky melodic canopy and off-kilter acoustics won pop fans over after its big release in 2012, and in the process, nabbed itself a 2013 Grammy Awards nomination for "Song of the Year!"
Musically, this beautiful melodic track "The A Team," is particularly dark lyrical content, yet overwhelmingly tuneful slice of jazz-folk, and was deeply inspired by a true story after Sheehan meeting a young girl called "Angel," whilst volunteering at a Crisis homeless shelter when he was 18 at the time and kind of quite naive. Built on palm-muted guitars and a simmering string arrangement, Sheehan chronicles girl's descent into an endless web of drug addiction and prostitution.
In a interview with Billboard, Sheehan explained the song's title. "A drug like crack cocaine is called a 'class A' drug. That's in the same category as heroin. Instead of making it clear and just saying what the problem was, I'd say, 'She's in the 'class A' team.' It was kind of my way of covering up (a person's addiction), I guess, making it a bit more subtle." Yes, Sheehan has an unflinching eye for subtle details and colorful imagery, and his music is full of soulful vocal runs and patient atmosphere. Although the subject matter of "The A Team" isn't exactly radio-friendly, the hook sure is.
Cost only £20, Sheehan shot clip with young photographer Ruskin Kyle and stars actresses Selina MacDonald as "Angel," and it narrates the story of "Angel" addicted to drugs, living on the streets of London. She tried to sell magazines for money, but only managed to sell one to the artist of the song, Ed Sheeran. "Angel" struggled so much that she resorted to selling her body to earn money. She may not have loved it, but it provided an income in general for the young woman. Later on, the pain became too much for her to bear and she just wanted to end it all. She traded in her "dirty" money for drugs, referencing the lyric and in the end, she succumbs to her drug abuse.

Ed Sheeran Found Angel In "Give Me Love"

Ed Sheeran tackles the concept of giving love versus receiving love in an angelic new video for his melodic folk-pop tune, "Give Me Love," the sixth and final single from his hugely successful debut studio album "+," which hits the airwaves last September, and since then, the 21-year-old British star has swiftly built up a devoted international fanbase and collaborated with two of the biggest acts in the pop world, One Direction and Taylor Swift. And now he giving fans another hopelessly romantic song.
Sheeran's musical career was not taking off how he would have liked. That is, until Sheeran met singer-actor Jamie Foxx who took an interest in the songwriter as well as his music. He cares about in his own life, performing with a "soft toned, flexible voice" with a hip-hop theme and laying down of "+:" "I started recording in January in a friend's garden shed in Suffolk. I wanted to keep that organic lo-fi feel. I've got the rest of my life to make an album in a swish studio. This time round I wanted to stay true to the sound that's got me this far."
"Give Me Love," came through late in the recording process, penned by Sheeran, along with songwriters Jake Gosling and Chris Leonard, is tells a story not of falling in love, but of love lost and a message of hope that we can find love in others despite our shortcomings. Sheeran explained: "That's an important song for me. It's got a more fleshed-out sound, which I think is where I'm headed in future." He added: "It's about a relationship that fell apart and you're asking for it to be put back together. Most people get to a point where they drink themselves into a dark corner in that situation. It's that point of view."
Directed by Emil Nava, the brilliantly powerful storyline based visual revolves around a beautiful girl who becomes cupid. Follows the life of a modern day, the clip features a lonely Sheeran drinking coffee in a diner while an angel wanders through the city at night. Australian actress Isabel Lucas plays the Cupid-like angel and went around making people fall in love by shooting them with an arrow. In spite of her gift for bringing others together, her loneliness brings her to a tragic end.