I’m probably going to get reported a 100x for saying this, but I’m saying it anyway.

[surferjet]

I really like Ed Sheeran - & especially Galway Girl.

There. I’ve said it.

o go away

I like the backing track of Perfect, but that's about it.

He is actually very talented. I don’t understand why people don’t like him?

Does anyone else expect after he says
I whispered underneath my breath
You heard it
You...
That the next word will be bitch rather than "look perfect"?

Intervention! I'm coming round with ABBA Gold RIGHT NOW.

He's a victim of his success.

There's no doubt he's talented but he's also very overrated and everywhere you bloody look, there's no getting away from him!

He's a nice lad but his music tends towards blandness. And his fanbase... ugh. I'm all for just letting other people enjoy things, but:

Saw him at a festival a few years back, biiiiig tent and he said "Wow, this is the biggest crowd I've ever played for" - the response was a high pitched shriek from every 12 year old girl making up the whole 8000+ crowd that nearly deafened me. He set off into a song and the entire crowd sang the music and words, loudly and badly and three octaved higher than him. Couldn't hear him at all. Left.

This is the thing with music snobs, they think popular = rubbish.
Music is frivolous entertainment.

Red card! Bad assumptions, Surferjet. I mean, look at Flibberty's ABBA intervention. I believe they have occasionally had some popularity.

ABBA are probably one of the best bands ever. Agreed.

Apparently he's working on a collaboration with Eminem.

Until recently my eldest daughter thought it was 'hallway girl' and was singing along accordingly.

He's a lovely bloke, but his music is bland, bland, bland IMO.

As long as tyou don’t start liking George Ezra

That’s beige slacks and Cardi territory

Can't stand Ed Sheeran, and I used to like Aqua.

Reported PristineCondition

How you think you can get away with making statements like that on a public forum, I don't know.

See I like George Ezra too - especially Cassi O

I'm undecided.

I like his more upbeat stuff, can't stand the slushy crap, and I like that he's honest about some of his music not being to his taste but he knows where the money lies (i.e. that awful wedding dance one that I can't remember the name of?).

I think there are far worse "artists" out there. Like bloody Adele.

Love, love, love everything by George Ezra though!

Reported.

I like him! I think he's very talented.

I think abba are one of the worst bands ever. I can't stand them.

YerAuntFanny agreed. I don't understand the popularity of Adele, or "whingy old Adele" as I like to call her. Great voice, and can't deny she's talented, but can't bear the songs, particularly all the "to my old boyfriend" songs.

I'll never forget how much I laughed when I read a pp saying that he looks like the 'village idiot'!!

I really like his early stuff - the one about the girl on drugs (She's in the Class A team ... can't remember the proper title right now!) and Lego House etc they seemed quite authentic but the recent stuff ... meh! Especially that bloody wedding song. So bad, so blatantly done for the dosh.

I did like Andrea Bocelli showing him how to actually sing effortlessly rather than straining over every note though, he schooled Ed's ass on that version. Class.

His mauling of 'The Parting Glass' makes me want to run him over in a tank. Even though it's not quite as bad as Sting's version of 'Mo Ghile Mear', which should be tried at the International War Crimes Tribunal for crimes against music and humanity.