Snowflakes, blanket by the fire, hot tea and fairy lights: Ed Sheeran gets into Christmas time in his new video “Under the Tree”, his first song of the year 2024. Embarked on his monumental “Mathematics Tour”, which will return to France next year for two concerts scheduled in Marseille , the king of acoustic ballads will resound on the airwaves all winter long with this gentle track recorded for the soundtrack of the animated film “That Christmas”, directed by Richard Curtis (“Love Actually”) and available on Netflix since on December 4. Together, the two men had already collaborated on the film “Yesterday” by Danny Boyle, in which Ed Sheeran plays its own role. “ I never saw the need to write a sad Christmas song until I wrote this one… That's the reality for a lot of people at Christmas. It's the only thing I wanted to write » indicates to Variety the singer of the hit “The A Team” – who recently crossed one billion plays on Spotify, who sings here about loneliness and lost love.
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“For the first time in a long time…”
It was Richard Curtis himself who signed the video for the song “Under The Tree”, in which Ed Sheeran opposite Claudia Jessie, star of the series “The Bridgerton Chronicles”. “ I hope I have done justice to her beautiful song. It's lyrically magical and opens up a critical moment in the film. Suddenly you feel all these layered emotions that go beyond what is seen on the screen and you are filled with desire and hope » he analyzes. Does this musical experience announce the imminent return of Ed Sheeran with a real album, a year and a half after the mixed reception reserved for “Substract”? The answer will make his fans smile: it’s yes!
The artist and king of streaming is preparing, according to Variety, to “ a major promotional campaign » for his seventh album which, we know in advance, will not be titled according to an arithmetic sequence. The magazine recalls that “Equals” (395,000 sales in France!) was released in the middle of a pandemic. As for the album “Subtract”, acoustic folk oriented and darker in its lyrics, “ it was obviously a completely different record that didn't really call for big pop stuff » according to the main person concerned. We have been warned: Ed Sheeran's next project will be designed to make crowds dance in stadiums! “ I feel like I'm going back to massive pop for the first time in a long time. It's quite exciting » teases the 33-year-old singer, who affirms in passing: the recording is finished! According to Varietytwo clips have already been shot and two other shoots are scheduled in the coming months to accompany the release of the record. Which will, without a doubt, be one of the musical events of 2025!
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