How is Ed Sheeran so popular?

yumyum10 · 03-03-2015 2:04pm #1

Three Wemblys, croke park etc. All of his songs are awful! How is he selling our shows?

AndyBoBandy · 03-03-2015 2:05pm

yumyum10 wrote: »

Three Wemblys, croke park etc. All of his songs are awful! How is he selling our shows?

its the X-Factor generation, sold everything through social media, including what bands/singers to like..

listermint · 03-03-2015 2:06pm

yumyum10 wrote: »

Three Wemblys, croke park etc. All of his songs are awful! How is he selling our shows?

Matter of opinion i suppose.

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Valetta · 03-03-2015 2:06pm

yumyum10 wrote: »

Three Wemblys, croke park etc. All of his songs are awful! How is he selling our shows?

Someone's out of synch with popular opinion.

I wonder is it Ed???

Na... don't think so.

gerbilgranny · 03-03-2015 2:08pm

I'm in my fifties; I like the sound of his music. I like the lyrics in his songs. I like the sound of his voice.

Didn't know who he was for a while, but he seems to be a nice person.

Nobody told me what to like.

Grayson · 03-03-2015 2:10pm

I don't think I've ever heard something he's wrote/performed.

I stopped listening to the latest music when MTV stopped playing the latest music. So about 10 years ago.

darkpagandeath · 03-03-2015 2:10pm

Andybobandy wrote: »

its the X-Factor generation, sold everything through social media, including what bands/singers to like..

You mean bands have never been manufactured before ? Portray an image to sell more records ? You would swear they would crate the same lp 12 times with a different picture on it just to sell more. :pac::pac::pac:

wandatowell · 03-03-2015 2:11pm

I dont listen to him but from what I gather he writes his own music. For that I'd hold him in a higher regard than most of the modern music.

Meh, really.

Magico Gonzalez · 03-03-2015 2:11pm

Don't like him, I find this whole acoustic guitar, folksy singer song writer thing to be extermely tiresome in general, with some notable exceptions. Mumford and his fcking son have a lot to answer for.

However...at least he plays an instrument, sings without autotune and performs live. Already he is better than 95% of the rest of the dross you kids listen too.

fleet_admiral · 03-03-2015 2:11pm

Ah let him have his 15 minutes op, he will be gone soon

eamonnq · 03-03-2015 2:13pm

How is ______________ so popular ??

Insert whoever takes your fancy ( One Direction / Take That / Boyzone / Westlife / Bay City Rollers / Showaddywaddy ..............)

Cool_CM · 03-03-2015 2:13pm

As much as he's not my cup of tea, he seems to have both talent and the fact that he got to where he is now through hard work (as opposed to going the X Factor route) going for him. Fair fooks to the guy.

Muir · 03-03-2015 2:17pm

Everyone has different tastes, I'd be a pretty big fan of his. I get how people wouldn't be into all of his music, especially some of the stuff that's over played on the radio. I honestly think I See Fire is such a beautiful song, and different to a lot of his stuff you might hear on the radio. But everyone likes different stuff, he's clearly doing something right anyway!

Sheep Lover · 03-03-2015 2:18pm

For a fella with a severe debilitating disability (gingerness) he's done well for himself.

fleet_admiral · 03-03-2015 2:20pm

Sheep Lover wrote: »

For a fella with a severe debilitating disability (gingerness) he's done well for himself.

Q: What would Ed Sheeran be if he wasnt famous?

A: A virgin

Brego888 · 03-03-2015 2:20pm

I don't like popular things because I'm cool.

buck65 · 03-03-2015 2:22pm

I thought he was an Irish comic until the Late Late toy Show when he came out singing to a 10 year old girl. Really.

crazygeryy · 03-03-2015 2:22pm

One word.

GINGER.

women love it.

Magico Gonzalez · 03-03-2015 2:22pm

crazygeryy wrote: »

One word.

GINGER.

women love it.

If only.

kippy · 03-03-2015 2:23pm

He generally writes, plays and performs his own music, seems like a nice enough fella who's worked relatively hard to get where he is. For that he needs to be commended. Probably a better role model than most artists for the youth of today as well.

His music appeals to many and as with any artist, lots of people don't like it either.
Fair play to him, would love to have the problems he has.
I am sure all the haters keep him awake at night as he sleeps in his gold plated blankets.........

eamonnq · 03-03-2015 2:23pm

crazygeryy wrote: »

One word.

GINGER.

women love it.

Ah yeah, the auld women love adding spice to whatever it is they are cooking.

Cool_CM · 03-03-2015 2:25pm

kippy wrote: »

I am sure all the haters keep him awake at night as he sleeps in his gold plated blankets.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0JaecRWy0

Son Of A Vidic · 03-03-2015 2:42pm

yumyum10 wrote: »

How is Ed Sheeran so popular?

Continuing with that subject mattter, why would anyone start a thread about Ed Sheeran?

Micky Dolenz · 03-03-2015 2:47pm

I like that one song where he hangs out with a cat and is pissed all the time. Pretty much sums up my life, only that I don't have a cat. The rest of his stuff I don't really get.

mad muffin · 03-03-2015 2:49pm

I find him extremely shït…

Charlie19 · 03-03-2015 2:51pm

Sheep Lover wrote: »

For a fella with a severe debilitating disability (gingerness) he's done well for himself.

For this reason alone makes me believe he must have talent.

The_Valeyard · 03-03-2015 2:53pm

Seems like a genuinely nice guy. Fair play to him and all his success.

Mr.McLovin · 03-03-2015 2:53pm

he must have talent as he is as ugly as sin

TheMilkyPirate · 03-03-2015 2:55pm

Music is very opinionated incase you hadn't noticed. If everyone liked the same music it would be a very boring world. I'll listen to anything from Nirvana to Nicki minaj, If I like the sound of a song and it gives me a buzz I listen regardless of genre, artist etc..

He writes his own music, plays his own instruments, performs live and got where he is through hard work and dedication. Nothing wrong with that. Just because you don't like the music doesn't make it shite.

the evasion_kid · 03-03-2015 3:11pm

Ever since the whole late late show thing I've noticed he's become more popular,comes across as a real wholesome guy,the type you could bring home to your parents.......I'll give it a few months until the scandals about him start making the tabloids

nelly17 · 03-03-2015 3:26pm

Hes good - a breath of fresh air IMO

Birneybau · 03-03-2015 3:27pm

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Music is very opinionated incase you hadn't noticed. If everyone liked the same music it would be a very boring world. I'll listen to anything from Nirvana to Nicki minaj, If I like the sound of a song and it gives me a buzz I listen regardless of genre, artist etc..

He writes his own music, plays his own instruments, performs live and got where he is through hard work and dedication. Nothing wrong with that. Just because you don't like the music doesn't make it shite.

Yeah, I'm always fighting with it. We can never agree.

Dravokivich · 03-03-2015 3:30pm

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Music is very opinionated incase you hadn't noticed. If everyone liked the same music it would be a very boring world. I'll listen to anything from Nirvana to Nicki minaj, If I like the sound of a song and it gives me a buzz I listen regardless of genre, artist etc..

He writes his own music, plays his own instruments, performs live and got where he is through hard work and dedication. Nothing wrong with that. Just because you don't like the music doesn't make it shite.

From NIR to NIC.... you catalogue badly :P

Wide Load · 03-03-2015 3:31pm

Not a fan of his music in the slightest but I respect the hell out of him for how hard he's worked to get to where he is. I've been aware of his music for years due to him doing a lot of stuff with rappers and grime artists and to see how he's been playing small shows in clubs, even empty rooms if I remember one video I saw, to stadiums has to be applauded.

Agent Coulson · 03-03-2015 3:37pm

Grayson wrote: »

I don't think I've ever heard something he's wrote/performed.

I stopped listening to the latest music when MTV stopped playing the latest music. So about 10 years ago.

MTV used play music :eek:

Eponymous · 03-03-2015 3:37pm

I wouldn't be rushing out to buy his albums myself, but I'd have infinitely more respect for him making it big and doing it the right way (demo tapes, small gigs etc) and not through attending auditions for a manufactured boy band or X-Factor style TV show.

Wasn't really aware of him myself until his appearance on the LLS Toy Show and just thought that he was a down to earth bloke.

Fair play to him. He'd be more the kind of role model I'd like for my kids than any pretty boy/girl band wannabe.

BMMachine · 03-03-2015 3:47pm

an overrated star in an era of overrated popular music. Theres still good music being made, you just have to dig to find it

It saddens me as with the homogenized and saccharine music industry today it means we will never have a David Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin et al ever again.

WoollyRedHat · 03-03-2015 3:51pm

People also hold Mrs. Browns Boys in high esteem especially over the pond and Garth Brookcould of sold out 5 concerts before the locals complained, causing a mini-rising. I think that's more mind boggling than Ed Sheeran's popularity.

AnonoBoy · 03-03-2015 3:53pm

When I started reading about acts who I had never heard of selling out The Point I realised I was past the point of caring why these people are popular.

kippy · 03-03-2015 3:59pm

An now,
There are a lot of people here just getting old, including myself.

NachoBusiness · 03-03-2015 4:00pm

Couple of months back that fcuking Thinking Out Loud song was on the radio non-stop (still is) and it came on the radio again and I said to the person I was with: Ah ffs, I hate this bloody teenage love song crap and they were looked at me like I was nuts and asked what I meant and I said: Well, how is loving someone until your 17 a big deal?'. Yep, I actually said that. I may have to see a doctor.

As for his popularity, it does seem quite odd that he is selling out Wembly and Croke Park with that kind of music, which in general I happen to like. The Point I would get but Christ that's a lot of tickets for someone with only a few hits to his name. I think James Morrison was/is infinitely better and yet there's not a chance he would sell out Croke Park. I do think it's a temp thing though. His songs are okay but there is nothing about his music that sounds lasting to me. Give it five years and you'll see him back playing the likes of Vicar St where he belongs.

suicide_circus · 03-03-2015 4:01pm

Bland inoffensive things will always be popular

Adamantium · 03-03-2015 4:10pm

If I hear found love where we are again aka Thinking Out Loud one more time, i'll scream internally.

Sickeningly,syrupy, sweet drip of a song.

PropJoe10 · 03-03-2015 4:13pm

Never heard any of his songs but apparently he writes his own music, which is more than can be said for most "artists" out there these days. Let him at it sure.

Letree · 03-03-2015 4:34pm

I don't understand how someone can say an musician is crap and expect that to be that. People have different preferences. I don't particularly like Ed's music. But i wouldn't just announce he is crap and be miffed that people like his music.

Dravokivich · 03-03-2015 4:36pm

I just find it odd that not only has he booked Croke Park, but he's appearently booked out two nights at it.

Is this a farewell tour or something?

Tiger Mcilroy · 03-03-2015 4:38pm

Grayson wrote: »

I don't think I've ever heard something he's wrote/performed.

I stopped listening to the latest music when MTV stopped playing the latest music. So about 10 years ago.

Do you often lie on the internet?..your saying you have never seen or heard his songs yet post in a thread dedicated to him?...

2 :cool: 4 school

AllGunsBlazing · 03-03-2015 4:39pm

Dravokivich wrote: »

I just find it odd that not only has he booked Croke Park, but he's appearently booked out two nights at it.

Is this a farewell tour or something?

No, it's his 'get it all while the getting's good' tour

gazzamc · 03-03-2015 4:47pm

NachoBusiness wrote: »

Couple of months back that fcuking Thinking Out Loud song was on the radio non-stop (still is) and it came on the radio again and I said to the person I was with: Ah ffs, I hate this bloody teenage love song crap and they were looked at me like I was nuts and asked what I meant and I said: Well, how is loving someone until your 17 a big deal?'. Yep, I actually said that. I may have to see a doctor.

It's 70 not 17,

"And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70"

I've seen him live and he's a great entertainer, gets everyone involved.. You can really sense that he loves what he's doing and he always does encores, the guy never stops.

Birneybau · 03-03-2015 4:49pm

gazzamc wrote: »

It's 70 not 17,

"And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70"

I've seen him live and he's a great entertainer, gets everyone involved.. You can really sense that he loves what he's doing and he always does encores, the guy never stops.

Describing a wedding singer there tbh.

AllGunsBlazing · 03-03-2015 4:54pm

Birneybau wrote: »

Describing a wedding singer there tbh.

Britain's answer to Daniel O'Donnell by the sound of it.

How is Ed Sheeran so popular?

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