I'm in love with the shape of you....

[HateSummer]

"We push and pull like a magnet do"

Like a magnet do?

Why not: "I'm in love with the shape of your ARSE,
We push and pull like a magnet does"

It's pissing me off. .

Detest this song. That's all really. It can do no right in my eyessay (ears) :D

*eyes

I just watched the music video out of curiosity and it's quite sweet. The song makes more sense now.

Can I just say I'm convinced the mmm-mmm-mmm bit is from an oompa loompa song in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

Baileys, Ed sings 'caaaahstle' so it sounds v English at that point. It's about Framlingham Castle in Norfolk. True fact.

Just heard The Shape of You on the radio a-bloody-gain.

'We talked for hours and hours / about sweet and sour'

Top-notch songwriting, that.

It's so insipid. So much music seems to be.

Can I just mention the one that drives me mad - James Arthur's Say You Won't Let Go!
Not only does he claim to have fallen in love with her as she looks over her shoulder at him and smiles, apparently with vomit down her chin as he is holding her hair back so she can drunkenly throw up.
There's the godawful bit where he promises to let her have a lie in, take the kids to school and go to work, all after bringing her breakfast in bed (cue all women thinking awww, how amazing, if only my man was as wonderful as that ).
Then there's the immortal line, "I want to live with you, even when we're ghosts". This makes me snigger every time I hear it.
Apparently I have now ruined this song for everyone I know. I don't know how people can listen to this monstrosity of a song without being disgusted at its cackhanded lyrics!
God I needed to get that off my chest. As you were

I asked DD if Cake by the Ocean meant something and I'd missed it. She just smirked. kids. To be honest, it's so mumbly that I can't make out most of the the lyrics anyway.

KoalaDownUnder

Ha! That line always makes me laugh as well.

I think it's "about the sweet and the sour", as in "what's going well and what's not going so well in life".

Sorry, realise that spoils the joke.

Sweet and sour what...Chicken, veg? Cant believe Ed left us hanging.

NomDePlumeReloaded
Yes he means it to be an expression about the good and bad in life, sadly though his lyrical talent seems to be grossly limited if it evokes images of Chinese takeaways.

Well HOURS and SOUR doesn't rhyme either 😡.

They do take such liberties, don't they?

Ohhhh, right you are.

I thought he was riffin' on the sweet and sour. You know, that they had at the all-you-can-eat buffet.

I suppose he could be. The cheap bastard. And why does she put the food in her bag at the all you can eat?! A handbag full of chow mein? Bleugh. You're a multimillionaire recording artist, Sheeran, get yer wallet out.

"Fill up your bag and I fill up my plate"

This thread has confused me in so many ways, I thought Ed Sheeran was about my age (mid 40s) and I am now flummoxed that he sings that terrible song that keeps ruining my radio listening.

I'm going for a nice lie-down, I can't keep up with the modern world.

James Arthur lets himself down with ' darnce with you.' No excuse for that.

The Ed Sheeran song is positively poetry compared to 'I would like' by Zara Larsson

When that little disjointed computerised male voice says 'under your sexy body' I want to rip my ears off and set fire to them

The James Arthur one makes my skin crawl with its a-a-a vocal crackling and growling like the radio reception's just gone wonky. Apparently it's a particular way of singing. Yuk. Just sounds like he really needs to clear his throat.

How about Little Mix? I wince every time they come on with their phony American accents, dubious girl power lyrics and screeching. An what / who is that random male voice in that awful Ex song that suddenly vomits and then shuts up?
And the latest one - swear they say 'turrrchhh' instead of 'touch'
Talentless trollops.

Beans,
Agree, awful shouty rubbish. Catchy though, i find myself humming it when i know i shouldnt!
I like the James arthur one - say you wont let go- but the new one makes my teeth itch. Its just awful.

I know 80s , I keep singing ' I hope she's having better seeeeexxx' with my Ds2 in the car....

Beans, nooo. Lyrics today eh? I,thought the cake song was about , well, cake!
Im old., mind you, sometimes i dont understand the lyrics. Maybe this is a good thing