Ed Sheeran: “The new album is titled 'Play'”

Last night and Sheeran was a guest of Jimmy Fallon. In addition to producing in the now classic performance on the subway, the singer -songwriter officially confirmed, after having disseminated clues, that the title of his new album is Play.

«When I was 18 I had the idea for a cycle of 10 albums: +, x, ÷, = And –and then Play, Breaks, Rewind, Fast Forward, Stop. I was obsessed with Tarantino and I had heard of his project to make 10 films, with Side Project like Grindhouse. I said to myself: I too will do 10 and every now and then a side project ».

Will stop after Stop? «I have always dreamed of making a last collection of various songs to publish the day I will die, entitled Eject (laughter). I'm not kidding. Imagine if Paul McCartney came out a record with a song he did when he was 16 years old, one at 20 years old, one at 30 … fascinating, right? In my case, a lot of people will say: fuck, even from the tomb torments us ».

The first single taken from the album is the announced Azizamwhich will be released on April 4 (a short preview here). Sheeran has also recorded various versions with musicians who make traditional music from various countries, China, India, the United States (Bluegrass), Ireland, the demonstration that “music is a universal language”.

Below the interview during which he sings a new piece entitled Old Phonelike the pub that will open on Friday in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and will remain open for two days to shoot the video of the piece. The song tells of when, because of the legal cause he was facing, Sheeran found an old phone of his “and it was like a time machine, the first message I read was of a friend who died the year before, the second one quarrel with an ex», a theme contained also in the video.

Sheeran also spoke of life on tour: «I have been going around since I was 16 years old. I will not stop, but I will do it in an intelligent way, like only on the weekend, every weekend for seven months to be able to return home. When I was 18 or 19 years old they play every day, it was a trip trip, concert concert concert ».

During the episode the musician also showed up in Fallon how to build Shape of You with a looping station. Speaking of the song, Sheeran reiterated that it was originally written by Rihanna, “who has a great taste in choosing the songs and practically in every album I made I have always tried to write a piece to propose them. Also Love Yourself who sang Justin Bieber was originally a piece for Rihanna. I assure you that a lot of authors outside have composed their best songs for Rihanna ».