6 STORIES
2011 · 10S
LONDON, UK
It sounds like a gentle, fingerpicked love song, but "The A Team" is actually about a young homeless woman trapped in crack cocaine addictio…
2014 · 10S
"Photograph" is not really a love song — it is a song about distance, and about choosing to keep an ache because the ache is the last piece …
2014 · 10S
A waltz-time love song dressed in soul-revivalist clothing, "Thinking Out Loud" became the third single from Ed Sheeran's 2014 album x and g…
2017 · 10S
"Perfect" sounds like a man telling a woman she is flawless, but it is really a song about being chosen while still unfinished — written for…
2017 · 10S
"Shape of You" is the song that broke streaming. Released in January 2017 as a surprise double A-side with "Castle on the Hill," it became t…
2021 · 20S
"Bad Habits" is a song about relapse dressed up as the best night of your life — a euphoric dance track in which the euphoria is the problem…