Sophia Michaels
You may get a full country music album from Ed Sheeran soon. According to the Brit, he’s seriously considering switching to country, the total opposite of what his pal and longtime collaborator Taylor Swift had done.
Speaking with Billboard, the Grammy-award-winning crooner dished that he has always been in awe of the country music scene. “I talk about this to my wife all the time. I would love to transition into country,” he said. “I love the culture of it, I just love the songwriting. It’s just like, brilliant songs.” He shared that he considers himself a massive fan of the music and culture and that he’s picked up the habit of listening to country hits pretty much every day. He also credited Swift for introducing him to the genre in the first place. “I’d never really listened to country music as a kid growing up,” he added. “It was only being on Taylor’s ‘Red’ tour and living in Nashville and her basically introducing me to that side of it.”
In the future, you’ll probably see Sheeran setting up a home base in Nashville, which he happens to consider the “home of songwriting.” In an interview with The Tennessean, he shared that he thinks that it’s a “fantastic place to be a songwriter,” regardless of the genre. So you might catch him cooking up his next hit in the city soon.
