Ed Sheeran admits Dont is about a girlfriend poacher from One Direction
A few weeks ago, I spoke about Ed Sheeran’s “Don’t”, which is a classic burn song in the tradition of Taylor Swift. Ed offers off up lyrics about a fellow entertainer who ate pizza and drank gin in his hotel room. Presumably, Ed slept with this woman. Then he was all heartbroken when she slept with some other dude (who wasn’t “a threat” at all) on their hotel floor. Ed sang about how he never wanted “a promise or commitment,” but “I thought you were different.” I joked that the girl could have been Rita Ora because she was the subject of so many rumors. Most people think the girl in the song is Ellie Goulding.
Who is the dude that Ed’s singing about? A lot of people believe that Niall Horan “stole” Ellie away from Ed. Howard Stern recently grilled Ed about the song’s origins. Ed seems very bitter about the bro code, but he worked it out. He also addresses his galpal Taylor Swift and ongoing feud with Miley Cyrus:
Was it a One Direction guy? “Well, it depends which one you’re talking about. The papers says a lot of things. I have kept my mouth shut about a lot of things. I think if you add any fuel to any fire …”
Stern asks about bitterness: “I didn’t really come out of that situation upset. I was just p-ssed off. I just thought it was a bit disrespectful.”
He wasn’t in love with the girl: “I got over it as soon as the song was done and the song happened pretty soon after.”
Ed confronted the guy: “It’s a difficult conversation to have… He was my mate, so I was just a bit like, ‘um not cool, but …'”
He was drunk when he insulted Miley Cyrus: “For some reason my publicist was like, ‘you should do this red carpet,’ and I just had a bit of a rant which I didn’t really mean. I woke up the next morning and got this anxiety thing. I said [something] along the lines of, ‘Your voice is amazing, your songs are amazing, just stop twerking.’ I didn’t say it in the nicest way and I do genuinely love her music and think her voice is great.”
Howard tells Ed to apologize to Miley: “I don’t really know what to do. I’ll find a way to [apologise].”
His friendship with Taylor Swift: “I think there are many reasons why that didn’t and hasn’t happened, [our] main one is professional. I’m on tour with her, I’ve done songs with her, why would you want to affect that? I was also involved with someone else at the time, so there was that. [We’re just] platonic friends. It’s not a romantic situation.”
[From Free On Smash]
The feud with Miley is all too real. When Ed collected an award at the 2014 VMAs, he gave triumphant high fives to the entire front row … all except Miley, who called Ed an “a-hole“ as he passed by her seat. Ed’s entitled to his opinion about Miley, but if he was simply drunk when he dissed her twerking, then he should apologize. Miley doesn’t care either way, but Ed talked about it in an interview. He may as well eat dirt and make nice.
As for Ed’s revelation about the “Don’t” origins, I can see why his ego is bruised. Ed was passed over for a random 1D member and not even the one with the pretty hair. Ed still acted juvenile about the incident. He privately confronted his friend but wrote a smear song about the girl. Rude.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7pLHLnpmirJOdxm%2BvzqZmbHBmaYV1e8SdlqyglZq%2Forq%2BmpumoaSorKW7za2WoquPlq%2BwwdOYmJifmae5p77InqWdl6CkrqS0xKuWn6qfoqywusSYm6KqlZjBqrvNaA%3D%3D