After he released two records last year, Ed Sheeran took a bit of a break. We now know the English singer-songwriter has used his hiatus productively; Sheeran told Variety a currently untitled LP is already finished, and he’s shot two music videos for it.
Sheeran revealed he also has plans to shoot two more music videos early next year while touring across India, China, and the Middle East before returning to Europe next spring and summer. The singer seems to be planning an extensive promo push for the next LP after his = (Equal) LP’s release in the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the more subdued vibe on - (Subtract), which he said was “obviously a completely different record that didn’t really call for big pop stuff.”
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Speaking of pop, Sheeran told Variety what fans can expect for the next album. “It feels like I’m getting back into big pop for the first time in a long time,” he said. “It’s quite exciting.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Sheeran talked about the emotional song he created for the new animated holiday film That Christmas. Titled "Under the Tree," Sheeran described it as the first “sad” Christmas tune he’s ever written.
“It’s the one thing I’ve wanted to write,” Sheeran said of the tune in which he put himself in the place of a man waiting in vain for his dad to come home at Christmas. “I’d never seen the need [to write] a sad Christmas song until writing this one… this is quite a lot of people’s realities at Christmas.”
You can find tickets for Sheeran's tour through Asia and Europe here, and watch the music video for "Under the Tree" below.
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Article Image: Ed Sheeran smiles at the crowd while performing at the Prudential Center in New Jersey. (Moffly via DepositPhotos.)
