What's to Love About Ed Sheeran? (guest Ross Golan)

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Songwriter Ross Golan comes over to start up a conversation, encouraging us to follow his lead and give Ed Sheeran's chart-annihilating record "Shape of You" a chance. Ross, a studio vet with multiple #1 hits (including numbers discussed on this very podcast, such as Ariana Grande's "Dangerous Woman" and Selena Gomez's "Same Old Love") is the ideal guest to convince a skeptical Charlie and Nate that Sheeran might have a song handmade for somebodies like them. Plus, Ross takes us behind the scenes of his own podcast, "And the Writer Is...", in which the industry's best writers break down their trials and triumphs on the way to the top. Featuring: • Ed Sheeran - Shape of You • Justin Bieber - Love Yourself • Kygo ft. Ella Henderson - Here For You • Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know Check out And The Writer Is... With Ross Golan: http://www.andthewriteris.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:12.0	And I am really happy to be joined by Ross Golan who is a hit songwriter who's written with folks
0:17.8	like Roon 5, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande. Welcome to the show.
0:23.0	Hello. Wow. I also feel like we should plug. You've got a great podcast called
0:28.3	and the writer is where every week you sit down with an acclaimed and venerable songwriter
0:33.1	to intimately discuss what happens behind closed doors in the music industry. That's right.
0:37.6	Yeah. So we're so excited to have you in the room with us because first of all,
0:41.6	you just have incredible experience with so many songwriters. And if you look at a lot of the
0:46.0	songs that we've covered on the show, either you or someone you've interviewed on your show has
0:50.6	probably contributed to that song. So you've got a lot of insight into what's going on behind the
0:54.9	process. And we reached out with a list of different songs that we wanted to potentially discuss.
1:00.7	And one of the songs that you pointed out was Ed Sheeran's Shape of View. It's been one of the most
1:06.6	requested songs that our listeners have asked for. And we've actually been really hesitant to
1:11.4	look at it for a certain reason. So what I wanted to do was to break down Shape of View. And in
1:17.5	the second half, spend time talking about your podcast and the writer is- Sure. Yeah, absolutely.
1:22.8	Right on. It might be ridiculous, but background on Ed Sheeran. So Nate and I actually have
1:31.1	kind of intentionally ignored Ed Sheeran. And I had to look up Ed Sheeran and figure out what is
1:36.6	going on with him. What are you saying? Why? Nate, what do you think? I think the probably
1:41.5	simplest way to say it is that we haven't really been very excited by a lot of the music we've
1:46.5	heard from him. I see. So whenever we've gone to do a podcast, he's never been at the top of our
1:52.2	list because we just didn't have that sort of visceral excitement. He's a really interesting person.
1:57.0	I've only met him a few times. But the first time I met him was backstage at a concert in New York.
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