The Greatest Trick Ed Sheeran Ever Pulled Was Convincing the World He’s an Underdog
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The New York Times
3.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The club isn't the best place to find the lovers of the bar is where I go |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to the New York Times Popcast aka Chapo Tropphouse |
| 0:18.6 | Your home for music news and criticism. I am your host, John Carramatta. Coming now, follow my lead, coming now, follow my lead. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm in love with the shape of you. |
| 0:37.0 | We push and pull like a magnate you, |
| 0:40.0 | although my heart is falling too. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm in love with your body. |
| 0:44.6 | Are you guys enjoying those island-ish vibes? |
| 0:49.4 | Are you feeling the impending global warming spring summer coming through coming |
| 0:56.6 | to you through the lens of Ed Sheerin's shape of you? |
| 1:00.5 | That is one of two singles that was released off of Divide, which is the new album by Ed Sheeron, which came out last week and |
| 1:08.1 | Undoubtedly there is only one person in the entire United States of America with whom I would wish to speak about this record and I am |
| 1:14.8 | lucky enough to have him live over the phone. It's Rob Parvilla. That's very |
| 1:20.6 | sweet and also kind of insulting. Yes, that's what is what I'm striving for. |
| 1:25.6 | Rob writes about culture and also Ed Sharon for the Ringer.com which is a web property that lives on the the internet |
| 1:36.2 | yes so I'm told yes so Rob you wrote some some flame rocks about this album. |
| 1:43.4 | I also I also wrote some less flame rocks about this album. |
| 1:46.8 | They were equally flame. |
| 1:48.3 | They were they were rocks. They were definitely rocks. |
| 1:50.9 | Right. Let's actually start with the opening questions that you posed in your piece, which I think are the |
| 1:58.3 | right questions and also the insulting questions. Why Ed Sheerin? Why Ed Sheerin? And we should qualify this up front by saying |
| 2:07.3 | Ed Sheerin is maniacally popular. Extremely, like ungodly outlandishly popular and I am going to say up front not for |
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