Ed Sheeran - 'Shape of You' & 'Castle on the Hill'

[Guest]

Never disappointed by Ed SheeShee 

[iLikeDYLDailyy 6]

Why is he so overrated i think his music is boring?

[MonsterPaws 2,745]

Okay I don't know how to describe 'Shape of You', but it sounds like the feeling you get at the cliffhanger of a book or movie. Except that feeling is persistent throughout the song. 

I don't know. The beat on loop on top of his--a little too crisp--vocals makes the song sound a bit off to me. Plus the fact that it sounds like 'The Greatest' doesn't help either because I keep waiting for the beat to drop and it just doesn't.

Slightly disappointed but it might grow on me like Perfect Illusion did.

[StrawberryBlond 15,383]

Was never his biggest fan but X was an improvement on +, so I had high hopes for this one. But so far, I'm left wanting. If you're a hardcore fan, I guess he's delivering more of the same stuff they like but I don't know, it's like he doesn't have any new topics to sing about. His need to appeal to the young male demographic is starting to wear really thin. As a woman, I can't relate to a lot of his music so I find it weird that he has so many female fans. Sure, women have had to relate to songs from male perspectives for years but we can get by because a song can really be rather gender neutral if you really think about it and a lot of songs about sex, for example, can really be applied to us all and you change a gender in the lyrics if you so wish. But these songs are so obviously aimed at men that a woman can't really change them. Shape Of You is just a typical dude song about meaningless dating, the anthem for every bachelor on a night out trying to get laid and it focuses completely on the girl's body, nothing about her personality (it was probably called Your Body originally but was changed when it was discovered that there was a floppy Xtina song with the same name). And Castle On The Hill is far too personal to really hit home, again just another anthem for the misfits of society, not people who walked the straight and narrow (seriously, to hear a lot of songs, you'd think all teens smoked weed, got drunk and were promiscuous - where's the anthem for those of us who didn't do that stuff to relate to?). I don't know, it's like he just sings about the same stuff over and over.

[fede ARTPOP 6,751]

19 hours ago, merlot said:

he is the definition of basic and boring  

[Dominic 11,922]

Castle on The Hill is brilliant it reminds me of + which I always preferred.

I think he's a brilliant artist, he hustled his way into the business, writes and actually comes across as a really down to earth guy. He's been around for 5 years.  Credit where credit is due. 

[Morphine Prince 109,474]

2 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Was never his biggest fan but X was an improvement on +, so I had high hopes for this one. But so far, I'm left wanting. If you're a hardcore fan, I guess he's delivering more of the same stuff they like but I don't know, it's like he doesn't have any new topics to sing about. His need to appeal to the young male demographic is starting to wear really thin. As a woman, I can't relate to a lot of his music so I find it weird that he has so many female fans. Sure, women have had to relate to songs from male perspectives for years but we can get by because a song can really be rather gender neutral if you really think about it and a lot of songs about sex, for example, can really be applied to us all and you change a gender in the lyrics if you so wish. But these songs are so obviously aimed at men that a woman can't really change them. Shape Of You is just a typical dude song about meaningless dating, the anthem for every bachelor on a night out trying to get laid and it focuses completely on the girl's body, nothing about her personality (it was probably called Your Body originally but was changed when it was discovered that there was a floppy Xtina song with the same name). And Castle On The Hill is far too personal to really hit home, again just another anthem for the misfits of society, not people who walked the straight and narrow (seriously, to hear a lot of songs, you'd think all teens smoked weed, got drunk and were promiscuous - where's the anthem for those of us who didn't do that stuff to relate to?). I don't know, it's like he just sings about the same stuff over and over.

I think not needing to relate to a song and just going by how sonically pleasing a song is really makes listening to different types of music the best tbh. 

I can't relate to most of Gaga's songs.... yet here I am lol. 

[StrawberryBlond 15,383]

Just now, Morphine Prince said:

I think not needing to relate to a song and just going by how sonically pleasing a song is really makes listening to different types of music the best tbh. 

I can't relate to most of Gaga's songs.... yet here I am lol. 

I know, I get that. But there's un-relatable and then there's un-relatable. You can make a song for guys without overly genderifying it, you know? So much of Ed's music is just made for men. I do go along with how sonically pleasing a song is. I'm usually the one being disapproving of people who need songs to be relatable in order to find them good. But there's a line to be drawn. If I think the story is not overly exciting or I've heard it all before, it limits my enjoyment of it. And for both of these songs, that was the case.

[Killa 18,631]

It sounds very well produced just with computer sound but both songs are bit too forgeatable, comercial easy to eat and throw in the bin. A bit on the weak side

[Music 15,215]

i like both tracks

they'll shoot up the Billboard Hot 100 easy!

[ElectricAlley 1,737]

SHAPE

OF

YOU

SOUNDS 

JUST 

LIKE

CHEAP THRILLS 

[Werk 13,166]

The lyrics are annoying but it's alright (talking about shape of you)