Ed Sheeran + Review

Ed Sherman’s debut album was released on 12 September 2011, quickly becoming number one on the UK Albums Chart, selling 102,000 copies in its first week. The album is contrast to the other pop albums that usually dominate the charts, with its acoustic indie folk genre. The album contains a variety of songs from gentle love ballads to a fast pace R&B rap. All the songs on + display hints of Sheeran’s personal life, and are no doubt written about real events, for example ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’, describes Ed’s journey to stardom and the managing issues along the way. The most unique quality of the album is the non-artificial, authencity of the album, unlike the dubsep, auto tuned stars that engulfs teenage music nowadays. With his messy ginger hair, ‘britishness’, self written love songs and guitar playing, that album + has become extremely popular with teenage girls all around, providing him to sell out multiple venues on his tour. This album has certainly made sure that he will never return to his homeless days sleeping on friends sofa, and his eagerly awaited second album should do the same.

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We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Review

Taylor swift worked together with Max Martin and Shellback to create the song We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. This song is the first single of her upcoming album Red, being released in October. The poppy song is a big contrast to her previous county style songs, but never the less is still catchy and continues to carry one with the typical ‘diary of a teenage girl’ love song style that she is most famous for. It has been liken’d to the style of Avril Lavigne, especially with the speech insert after the bridge, where Swift talks to the listener like they’re best friends having a conversation over the phone, helping the reader to feel a connection to Taylor and relate to the song. I was surprised that this was here first choice of song since from her new appearance and cover artwork, she looked as if she was truing to display herself as more a mature figure, and depart from her lovey-dovey teenage girl image. Even though the title is probably one of the longest song titles I’ve ever seen, the song is probably one of my favourites of her’s and is continuously stuck in my head.

 

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