you think listening to this is excruciating? i went to the dentist to get root canal therapy and the dentist only had ed sheeran playing over and over while i agonized in pain
Ed Sheeran makes me angry because it's very clear that he's got some talent in him and he just refuses to use it because the lifeless songs sell more. For every Sing or Castle On The Hill there's three Shape Of Yous or Perfects. But minivan core has a big audience, and he sure knows how to play into it.
Yea he always plays it too safe but I can't blame em cuz that is what makes the most money, It would be interesting if he decided to take a risk and made an album without having sales and numbers in mind
I will stand by the fact that The A Team, Lego House, Photograph, Castle on the Hill and Visiting Hours are stellar songs. It’s a shame that almost everything else he makes is musical NyQuil that does numbers because Karens use it as background noise.
Ed Sheeran is weird, his music is mid as fuck but I was dragged to his concert by my mother and not gonna lie man's is INSANELY talent and can play guitar extremely well like it's nothing. Dude was fully snapping strings he was playing so hard.
Yeah I’ve always wanted to see him live tbh even though I don’t really like the music, I’ve heard nothing but good things about his live shows, especially his skills with a looper
@@Viper-dz2kw I actually did see him live when I was in my fanboy era. Even though I no longer like his music, that performance was really unforgettable.
I see bands I don’t like and live they kill it. It’s just a completely different listening experience that you can’t have listening to music off an album.
I personally like imagine dragons mostly the old stuff like smoking mirrors smoke Plus mirrors sorry I'm using voice type anyways can anybody tell me why they don't like imagine dragons I'm just curious
Castle on the Hill is legitimately a great song because not only is it very well sung and believable in his performance, it's actually unique to him and feels like it really earns its big, bombastic chorus. I'm not a Sheeran fan, but I'll always give him this track. It's Summer of 69 for a new generation and it works.
@Alejandro if you actually listen to the lyrics, the whole song is about his upbringing as a teen growing up in a somewhat ironically nostalgic tone with personal stories that are still relatable enough to be enjoyed by a wider audience. Despite the negatives he still wants to go back. All put together on a bit of a grandeous instrumental vs what he had normally put out up until that point. I love it, a lot of people love it, I don't think there's much like it. I'm not doing it justice through this comment.
What makes castle on the hill so special is that "uneventful life story" is the same as we all had, I can't say my childhood had any crazy adventures but looking back now it's those little moments with my friends doing normal things that make me remember how happy I was and feel nostalgic. This song brings back exactly those memories in a very warm and cute way.
Right it wasnt a crazy childhood it was normal, but to us and how Ed explains it, it was special. We didnt actually hang out in a castle, but man it was special like one
fully agree. it's one of Ed's best songs because it portrays that middle-class childhood most of us had, and Ed seems to either not know how or not care enough to make most of the rest of his songs as genuine and genuinely relatable. i think Castle on the Hill is an above-average song outside the context of Ed's discography, but the song stands out within that context because the context itself is so boring and lifeless.
I might like it if I found it even slightly relatable, but I have never lived near a friend who I would hang out with all the time, so for me its a melodramatic snoozefest
Just because Ed titled his song "Bad Habits" instead of "Brad Habits" in his next album doesn't mean you gotta bully him in front of your 200k viewers, Brad
Ed peaked with his first album. A Team, Lego House, Sunburn, Autumn Leaves, This, U.N.I, Give Me Love, Drunk, Little Bird, Small Bump > anything he's put out in the last 10 years.
I found out about him from his song shape of you aka one of the most annoying and horrendous songs of all time, They would re play that song on my whole 9 hours shift, I still have PTSD
Apparently Ed stopped cursing in his songs because a taxi driver told him that they wouldn't let their daughter listen to songs with curse words and said "it was the right thing to do" Also, as an autistic person, I didn't really mind the comments at 16:43. Thought it was kinda funny
Yeah Ed is so boring but idk something about Castle on the Hill he like woke up. The chorus is soaring, the lyrics are meanimgful and relatable on a way thats actually relatable
@@revivedfears your friend's brother dying of an overdose isn't exactly "vanilla", I think you're just finding any way to hate on a good track from someone you don't like
I think it’s funny that Ed provokes such strong and angry reactions. He’s just not my cuppa tea. I think he’s bland and boring, but there’s nothing offensive about the music and people really love his stuff. I think that’s a good thing.
@@lmaololroflcopter Actually I work in a place where I have no control over the radio. Also I'm British so our radioplay is dominated by him and Adele.
I can only imagine how his supposed "death metal" album is gonna be, even if the singer of Cradle of Filth is gonna be working with him. I mean, he cited Six Feet Under as his influence.
I feel like this album is better when listening to the songs separately rather than together, so that you aren't bored by a bunch of slow songs in a row and instead can enjoy a song by itself. For example within the album I think dive is a mediocre song, but individually I really like it for the vocals and ballad instrumentals. Really depends on how you come across the songs imo
@@bruhguy4208 i agree, but i'd like to define the way i interpret it. i think that a random collection of okay songs on the same project makes for a bad album. however, if it were a random collection of really good songs, that can still be a pretty good album. not as good as the ones that have an intended flow or story, but can still be good. i also don't think that just giving an album a theme, story, flow, etc. doesn't automatically make it a better album. the flow has to work in order, the story has to make sense, and most of all, the songs still have to be good on their own. it's not as black and white as just "no story = bad album" or vice versa.
My mom is obsessed with Ed sheeran, I've listened to his entire discography so many times cause she plays it anytime she cleans or cooks and it's slowly killing me
Disagree honestly. I'd prefer this over actually bad music anyday. Both I'd rather not have, but bad music is bad for a reason. Boring music is tolerable at least
I have a soft spot for Ed Sheeran's music. I remember back in late 2017 I first heard Castle On The Hill and The A Team, and thinking they were the greatest songs to ever be created. Good times. Even though I'm past him and have found WAY better musicians (especially in Folk), I've had some really good memories from Ed, and my favorite songs from him will always bring me back. #ilovegingers
He gets the rap pass. Before he was even signed to a label, he had music posted on SBTV, and did a collaboration EP with a bunch of UK grime artists. He has a lot of ties to the rap scene (pre-drill) and seems to be treated with a lot respect. I think he has supported them in a number of ways since but I cant remember anything specific. I hate his music, but it's pretty cool. And that EP, while not great, is probably his best release IMO.
has collaborations with stormzy before he really blew up, has collabs with MANY oldschool grime artists, devlin was at his wedding and afaik the 2 are very close, he was super close with jamal edwards(RIP) who ran SBTV which was known for putting on small street artists including ed, more recently hes put out some remix of his songs with drill rappers and even more recently was part of a project for young upcoming rappers to go on "plugged in" a UK drill platform where they used his beat and had ed sheeran in the video, still in contact with people he collabed with at the start of his career like P Money, the only person from UK scene who has had something bad to say about ed is wiley but honestly, wiley is bitter and gets mad at everything lmao
Hard disagree on Shape of you. My most hated songs. The lyrics are creepy. If an obese guy with moustache and bad skincare sang "I'm in love with your body" or "now my bedsheets smell like you" everyone would see this song the way I do. The absurd numbers this song gets makes it thousand times worse
His first album was the only good one. His next few had a couple of good ones but then he released the Collaborations project album....needless to say I stopped being a fan after that
Whoever is getting these songs to half a billion views is the same demographic keeping the hallmark movie industry, Starbucks, and the decorative bowl filler industries alive.
i love this album and i love this video. its nice that i can watch this and not get mad when saying negative stuff about an album i love. music is subjective and im glad we can all listien to eachother's opinions :)
To me some of these lyrics make about as much sense as the random English that K-pop bands throw into their songs that I'm not really sure they know the meaning of
So glad to see someone who agrees with me on how boring his music is. The line "when I was six years old I broke my leg" and the way he sings it is soooo cringe to me
“New Man” triggered tinnitus in my left ear. There is no greater displeasure I can feel than hearing garbage in one ear and “RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII” in the other
I think an interesting video would be you reacting or revisiting Get To Heaven by Everything Everything as I think while it was not only good for its time, but its held up even better.
@@suicidalkangarooz he’s already listened to it i think, but he’s never done a full reaction. He has praised it before but also has some problems with it too from what I’ve heard
I can´t belive that this album has 9 million pure copies and it still being the best streamed album on Spotify. It shows the power od Teddy. I really love him. Hi was so cool at the time. His music is just amazing.
I live in cork. The second biggest city in Ireland. It's by no means a big city, it's mostly towns spread out across the county. But holy Christ does everyone lose their minds when ed comes to cork. The radio stations lose their mind and everyone is at it. The station RedFm rebrand as fuckin EDFm for the period he's there. He's an artist deprived of art
His old albums were actually pretty good for like someone who was a teengager and lyrics can be relatable and nostalgic and I enjoyed listening to those songs and still do not as much cause I’ve outgrown them but if I go back and listen to it it gives me nostalgic and he knows how to produce music and his voice is pretty good but I agree that his new music sucks now cause he’s an old man and peopole can’t relate Lmao cause he just doesn’t know how to express lyrics in a more creative and subtle way
I was in a restaurant in Spain the other day and they literally played Ed Sheeran for 1hr+ XD Either they had a fan working there or put on a Ed Sheeran compilation for background noise but it was so strange.
I didn't mind Equals but it felt way too pop and not enough folk, and it lacked replay value, I can't believe some critics actually think it's better than Plus
16:41 i dont want to be that guy but please fucking educate yourself! how you can call people autistic and then immediately follow that up with "they've never felt emotion in their life" is wrong on many levels. and then to call their comments disrespectful!? This is the first time ive genuinely gave a fuck about using autistic as an insult. I hope you can treat this the same way you treated the fact you thought the way you talked about k-pop but later did research on its link to korean culture and how that made you think. i usually love your content, Brad, but this is disrespectful.
It’s a joke. Plus these people can stand up for themselves they don’t need you jumping in front of the train for them. I could have easily left this part out but I decided not to, because people know it’s a joke. Also I’m on the spectrum. So how about you go cry about it to someone who cares.
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial "go cry about it to someone who cares" wow, real good Brad. I didn't know you were and In that case I feel like a bit of a tool reading back cause of the 'educate yourself', for that I apologise. But also I too am on the spectrum and I suppose took it quite differently. Usually these wouldn't bother be but for some reason this did. And yes I did realise it was a joke but I guess I really, really didn't laugh. I still stand by a fair bit of what I said but I still do feel like q bit of a tool for the rest, reading back.
i'd love to see you react to the album treat you better by shawn mendes is in, i used to be a massive fan of his and remembering it right now it's up there with divide as one of the most mid albums ever + there are a ton of questionable lyrics in it
Granted a lot of these songs are generic and boring, due to multiple reasons, does this guy really think a slow song is automatically bad? Is there no place for ballads or slow songs in general in this world?
In response to the "zoomers don't have the attention span" comment, I'd just like to add this: I've got an attention span, but I don't bullshit. If something doesn't peak my interest quickly, it's probably not gonna get any attention. I can watch a 3 hour movie easily if it's interesting, but a 3 minute song that's boring is getting skipped.
Brad, I love you, but you can't divide by zero to get infinity. Any number divided by zero is simultaneously trying to be infinity and negative infinity, which is undefined. Continue to grow, Brad. Much love
I really like the opening 3 here. Eraser, Castle On The Hill, & Dive are all tracks that I find very appealing in their own unique ways. But after that, it’s almost entirely mid. Closer is nice though.
@@jeremyusreevu237 homie you genuinely think AJR is a great band we’re never gonna agree on literally anything. I ain’t even mad we just are very different people
I don’t care what anyone says, the single emotional songs on his albums are actually good. You got A-Team, Photograph, Supermarket Flowers, and Visiting Hours.
Ed Sheeran is more talented than he leads on but honestly the world needs artists at every level of approachability and I'd say Ed is one of the more respectable names in the realm of bland music. At the same time, it is fascinating how a lot of the music with the most listeners nowadays is so mind-numbingly generic.
The collab album is definitely abysmal but = is much better than ÷, the songs are competently made and they don't all blend in with each other, = is more like his x album but not quite as good.
Hey brad just came into say when you said “this chat is filled with autistic people”. It wasn’t okay and it’s not a term that should be thrown around like that, ableism isn’t okay and while I’m not one to say that policing what someone says is a good thing most of the time. I feel like you saying that was a sign of ignorance to a topic you yourself don’t struggle from, as an autistic person myself. We do have feelings
As an "autistic" person, it's not real. ADHD isn't real. Bpd, add, did, osdd, ocd, aren't real. They're psychologists feeding you pills and making you believe your behavior is okay. Learn self control, and you'll no longer have those problems caused by "autism"
Sheeran writes best when it's personal to him. It's the reason why Taylor Swift is successful as well as other singer/songwriters like Billy Joel, Kate Bush and Fiona Apple. Stop writing wannabe pop hits and just be genuine.
Very rare take, but you should listen to more of Jack Stauber's albums (HiLo, Finite Form) again. He pretty much stopped his work a year ago but I just found your video about Pop Food and I think his other albums might give you a kick too. Oh yeah, and his micropop.
@@cuandotumedasunagalleta7169 True, but also you should try listening to his pre-Finite Form songs, before he was popular like Juana Maria and Summer Sickness and Stones. They are great -- also yeah, he's quite the guy in real life.
it's all kinda bland, but sometimes he makes really cute music. I hate his love songs(I'm not the target demographic for them lol), but Castle on the Hill and Visiting Hours are just adorable. Ik that Ed probably wasn't smoking at 15 or whatever, but I don't really care. it's cute and inoffensive, and sometimes I'm down
“I can handle slow” says the dude who couldn’t handle half of Hail To The Thief because of the more patient tracks. It is completely okay to not like slow, soft, calm music, but don’t say you can handle it when you have admitted you find those kinds of songs boring.
I remember I really liked 7 years by Lukas Graham as a kid so when I heard castle on the hill I genuinely thought it was a 7 years ripoff at first from the first verse. I was really dumb.
you think listening to this is excruciating? i went to the dentist to get root canal therapy and the dentist only had ed sheeran playing over and over while i agonized in pain
you went to be tortured at that point
I had to sit thru Shape of you bieng played on repeat for my whole 9 hour shift, I still have PTSD
my condolences
At least you had the root canal to distract you from the pain of listening to this
You poor soul
Ed Sheeran makes me angry because it's very clear that he's got some talent in him and he just refuses to use it because the lifeless songs sell more. For every Sing or Castle On The Hill there's three Shape Of Yous or Perfects. But minivan core has a big audience, and he sure knows how to play into it.
Yea he always plays it too safe but I can't blame em cuz that is what makes the most money, It would be interesting if he decided to take a risk and made an album without having sales and numbers in mind
I will stand by the fact that The A Team, Lego House, Photograph, Castle on the Hill and Visiting Hours are stellar songs. It’s a shame that almost everything else he makes is musical NyQuil that does numbers because Karens use it as background noise.
his old stuff is actually pretty well written. songs like be like you and homeless are pretty solid songs
I can say the same for charlie puth 😅
@@kahn5234 yeah. Attention did go pretty hard but it's surrounded by the likes of Marvin Gaye and one call away.
A boring song is worse than a bad song, I'd rather listen to demondice and laugh my ass off than be completely uninterested in what im hearing
i agree. listening to a boring song can be torturous sometimes
Aren't boring songs already bad songs though?
I can relate
@@Leon_SKennnedy songs can be bad but in a fun kind of way
@@Leon_SKennnedy boring songs are all bad but not all bad songs are boring
Ed Sheeran makes music for people who have “Live Laugh Love” and “Home Is Where We’re Family” signs on their walls.
basically 50 year old moms
lmao accurate
😂😂
Yeah so basically older white women who drink too much wine
okay
Ed Sheeran is weird, his music is mid as fuck but I was dragged to his concert by my mother and not gonna lie man's is INSANELY talent and can play guitar extremely well like it's nothing. Dude was fully snapping strings he was playing so hard.
Yeah I’ve always wanted to see him live tbh even though I don’t really like the music, I’ve heard nothing but good things about his live shows, especially his skills with a looper
@@Viper-dz2kw I actually did see him live when I was in my fanboy era. Even though I no longer like his music, that performance was really unforgettable.
I see bands I don’t like and live they kill it. It’s just a completely different listening experience that you can’t have listening to music off an album.
My wife dragged me to see him and to be fair, it was great.
hearing Ed Sheeran singing about sexual encounters makes me feel like I was violated in some way
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AND THE HOTDOG FLAVOURED WATER
And The hot dog flavored wataaaaa
CHAWCOLATE STAHRFISHH
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when i was 6 years old, i. broke my leg
when i was 7 years old [LUKAS GRAHAAAAM], i. broke my other leg
when i was 8 years old, broke both my arms
i still can't comprehend how Ed Sheeran is the top 1st most streamed artist on Spotify. i would rather listen to Imagine Dragons than him
Actually he isn't, Both him and Justin Bieber are tied for that
Really? I’d rather listen to Ed out of the two.
No id much rather listen to Ed. Hes made some pretty good songs, Imagine Dragons is like pain
Imagine dragons over Ed is crazy
I personally like imagine dragons mostly the old stuff like smoking mirrors smoke Plus mirrors sorry I'm using voice type anyways can anybody tell me why they don't like imagine dragons I'm just curious
Castle on the Hill is legitimately a great song because not only is it very well sung and believable in his performance, it's actually unique to him and feels like it really earns its big, bombastic chorus. I'm not a Sheeran fan, but I'll always give him this track. It's Summer of 69 for a new generation and it works.
That's such a fantastic comparison I'd never thought of it like that before
You're right. Both of those songs evokes such a great nostalgia in its own era
Perfect take
@Alejandro I genuinely want to understand what you mean, could I have some examples of songs that actually sound like castle on the hill?
@Alejandro if you actually listen to the lyrics, the whole song is about his upbringing as a teen growing up in a somewhat ironically nostalgic tone with personal stories that are still relatable enough to be enjoyed by a wider audience. Despite the negatives he still wants to go back. All put together on a bit of a grandeous instrumental vs what he had normally put out up until that point. I love it, a lot of people love it, I don't think there's much like it. I'm not doing it justice through this comment.
What makes castle on the hill so special is that "uneventful life story" is the same as we all had, I can't say my childhood had any crazy adventures but looking back now it's those little moments with my friends doing normal things that make me remember how happy I was and feel nostalgic. This song brings back exactly those memories in a very warm and cute way.
Right it wasnt a crazy childhood it was normal, but to us and how Ed explains it, it was special. We didnt actually hang out in a castle, but man it was special like one
It has personality. This is what lacks his other songs.
fully agree. it's one of Ed's best songs because it portrays that middle-class childhood most of us had, and Ed seems to either not know how or not care enough to make most of the rest of his songs as genuine and genuinely relatable. i think Castle on the Hill is an above-average song outside the context of Ed's discography, but the song stands out within that context because the context itself is so boring and lifeless.
I might like it if I found it even slightly relatable, but I have never lived near a friend who I would hang out with all the time, so for me its a melodramatic snoozefest
I don't love the song, but I never thought about it that way. That's a pretty interesting angle.
Just because Ed titled his song "Bad Habits" instead of "Brad Habits" in his next album doesn't mean you gotta bully him in front of your 200k viewers, Brad
"GO MY AUTISTIC SOLDIERS" has got to be my favorite fucking thing i've ever heard you say in any video
Ed peaked with his first album.
A Team, Lego House, Sunburn, Autumn Leaves, This, U.N.I, Give Me Love, Drunk, Little Bird, Small Bump > anything he's put out in the last 10 years.
X is good too but yeah + is easily his best
Ed sheeran should've been one of those artists that release 3 independent albums that don't get out of the underground scene and then disappear
Genuinely loved that album, but I rlly am not a fan of all his newer shit
he just gets more boring w every album and its painful
3 of the songs you mentioned happened to be my favs of his along with Grade 8. His newer stuff’s not it for me except for Photograph, Sing and Don’t.
i remember finding ed sheeran as a kid through lego house because it had lego in the title
I found out about him from his song shape of you aka one of the most annoying and horrendous songs of all time, They would re play that song on my whole 9 hours shift, I still have PTSD
Apparently Ed stopped cursing in his songs because a taxi driver told him that they wouldn't let their daughter listen to songs with curse words and said "it was the right thing to do"
Also, as an autistic person, I didn't really mind the comments at 16:43. Thought it was kinda funny
Yeah Ed is so boring but idk something about Castle on the Hill he like woke up. The chorus is soaring, the lyrics are meanimgful and relatable on a way thats actually relatable
They're relatable in a very purposefully vanilla way.
@@revivedfears your friend's brother dying of an overdose isn't exactly "vanilla", I think you're just finding any way to hate on a good track from someone you don't like
And I said… take a knee? MY ASS! *twangy guitar starts playing*
the bit with the Sausage Rolls For Everyone song made me realize, Brad should do a “terrible holiday songs” as a topic video later in the year
No LadBaby slander. 😠
I think it’s funny that Ed provokes such strong and angry reactions. He’s just not my cuppa tea. I think he’s bland and boring, but there’s nothing offensive about the music and people really love his stuff. I think that’s a good thing.
How popular he is, is what I hate most about him. We're force fed him through a funnel
@@PresidentHotdog you're not force fed anything. You can ignore him if you want to.
@@lmaololroflcopter Actually I work in a place where I have no control over the radio. Also I'm British so our radioplay is dominated by him and Adele.
@@PresidentHotdog ah, I see. Sounds like Heart FM.
@@lmaololroflcopter it flips between Heart and Rock FM (which only plays pop chart music).
I can only imagine how his supposed "death metal" album is gonna be, even if the singer of Cradle of Filth is gonna be working with him.
I mean, he cited Six Feet Under as his influence.
I'm afraid to google if this is real, so I'm just gonna say that you comment is Nake Fews
It’s real bro☠️☠️
I will definitely perish after listening to it
honestly it sounds so hilariously bad I'm kinda excited for it
Holy shit that might actually turn out to be the worst album of all time
I feel like this album is better when listening to the songs separately rather than together, so that you aren't bored by a bunch of slow songs in a row and instead can enjoy a song by itself. For example within the album I think dive is a mediocre song, but individually I really like it for the vocals and ballad instrumentals. Really depends on how you come across the songs imo
nah
yeah i actually mostly agree. i listened to dive on its own like 5 years ago and i thought it was cool. every song in a row though yeesh
If an album is just a collection of songs and not a thorough complete experience its not a good album
@@bruhguy4208 i agree, but i'd like to define the way i interpret it. i think that a random collection of okay songs on the same project makes for a bad album. however, if it were a random collection of really good songs, that can still be a pretty good album. not as good as the ones that have an intended flow or story, but can still be good. i also don't think that just giving an album a theme, story, flow, etc. doesn't automatically make it a better album. the flow has to work in order, the story has to make sense, and most of all, the songs still have to be good on their own. it's not as black and white as just "no story = bad album" or vice versa.
aka not listening to the album
In 2016, pop radio stations would have Shape of You playing once every 6 minutes I swear holy shit it was bad.
My mom is obsessed with Ed sheeran, I've listened to his entire discography so many times cause she plays it anytime she cleans or cooks and it's slowly killing me
Ed Sheeran is the proof that boring music is a lot worse than bad music
Agree his recent music is boring but his older ones you should give a try
@@elio7754 ok
True, I would rather listen to Trisha Paytas or Gabbie Hannah's music than Ed Sheeran
Disagree honestly. I'd prefer this over actually bad music anyday. Both I'd rather not have, but bad music is bad for a reason. Boring music is tolerable at least
I have a soft spot for Ed Sheeran's music. I remember back in late 2017 I first heard Castle On The Hill and The A Team, and thinking they were the greatest songs to ever be created. Good times. Even though I'm past him and have found WAY better musicians (especially in Folk), I've had some really good memories from Ed, and my favorite songs from him will always bring me back.
#ilovegingers
Ew, gingers
I feel bad for ginger people, Imagine Ed sheeran outta all people Bieng your representation
@@williams1729 literally my nickname in school
Tbf id still say those are pretty good so gs
@@williams1729 as a person that’s not ginger i can confirm that the ginger people’s representation is shrek’s gingerbread man not ed sheeran
DS4EVER makes Divide sound like the most exciting thing ever.
Also, Castle On The Hill is a friggin masterpiece.
i would rather listen to the weird 808 patterns on poochie gown than listen to ed sheeran
Mid off
I can't fw Eddie Sheers
It's okay you can say fuckin Jeremy, I won't tell your mother
@@haroldflower8008 there ain’t anything weird on any of these albums
He gets the rap pass. Before he was even signed to a label, he had music posted on SBTV, and did a collaboration EP with a bunch of UK grime artists. He has a lot of ties to the rap scene (pre-drill) and seems to be treated with a lot respect. I think he has supported them in a number of ways since but I cant remember anything specific. I hate his music, but it's pretty cool. And that EP, while not great, is probably his best release IMO.
has collaborations with stormzy before he really blew up, has collabs with MANY oldschool grime artists, devlin was at his wedding and afaik the 2 are very close, he was super close with jamal edwards(RIP) who ran SBTV which was known for putting on small street artists including ed, more recently hes put out some remix of his songs with drill rappers and even more recently was part of a project for young upcoming rappers to go on "plugged in" a UK drill platform where they used his beat and had ed sheeran in the video, still in contact with people he collabed with at the start of his career like P Money, the only person from UK scene who has had something bad to say about ed is wiley but honestly, wiley is bitter and gets mad at everything lmao
Hard disagree on Shape of you. My most hated songs. The lyrics are creepy. If an obese guy with moustache and bad skincare sang "I'm in love with your body" or "now my bedsheets smell like you" everyone would see this song the way I do. The absurd numbers this song gets makes it thousand times worse
This is the only way I can see this song honestly. Ed doesn't come off as sexy or romantic, he comes off as lustful and needy
Wrong. Shape of You is an absolutely amazing song & u have shit taste
I legitimately think Brad is one of the best content creators right now. Consistently funny and entertaining every single video.
You know he got exposed for being a pedofile right?
ikr?? i found his channel a month ago and i have literally binged all his videos + rewatched a bunch of them lol
*_L U K A S G R A H A A A A M M M M_*
Once I was 6years old
and my momma told me
I broke my leg
"Momma told me not to break legs" - Migos
Take it easy on Ed guys, he just learned division and is really excited over it.
Ed Sheeran is music for people that take Coldplay over Radiohead
He makes Coldplay seem like a punk band.
hey coldplay was good up until the 2010s
@@derekrequiem4359 no they weren’t.
Coldplay > radiohead
@@MadJackChurchill1312 Yes they were
I'm not a big Ed sheeran fan but some of his older stuff has some proper good storytelling in them
His first album was the only good one. His next few had a couple of good ones but then he released the Collaborations project album....needless to say I stopped being a fan after that
Whoever is getting these songs to half a billion views is the same demographic keeping the hallmark movie industry, Starbucks, and the decorative bowl filler industries alive.
Shape of You is such a weird song to hear coming from a guy who looks like the handsy manager at every GameStop
I once listened to Divide by Ed Sheeran against my will because my bus driver in high school brought it on CD 3 days in a row.
i love this album and i love this video. its nice that i can watch this and not get mad when saying negative stuff about an album i love. music is subjective and im glad we can all listien to eachother's opinions :)
To me some of these lyrics make about as much sense as the random English that K-pop bands throw into their songs that I'm not really sure they know the meaning of
So glad to see someone who agrees with me on how boring his music is. The line "when I was six years old I broke my leg" and the way he sings it is soooo cringe to me
i still cant understand why he is the most streamed artist rn
Because he took the wock to Poland.
Ginger supremacy my friend
it's just supermarkets playing his songs all day
Same
Idk maybe because he made a come back with his new single bad habits.
“New Man” triggered tinnitus in my left ear.
There is no greater displeasure I can feel than hearing garbage in one ear and “RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII” in the other
I was here for the live and I literally fell asleep
What interested and surprised me more is that Eraser is the least streamed song from the album
I think you should unironically listen to the Silent Hill 2 OST. Or the OST for any of the first 4 games. They're all really good.
Nah, resident evil directors edition
@@Qvorum THE FART BASEMENT OST
Well if were reccomending game osts, than id nominate Senran Kagura Estival Versus for that. Nearly no bad songs in the entire thing.
Yo pulling up Jeff Buckley’s Grace out of nowhere had me scared shitless, that album is amazing
my favorite album of all time, gives me chills every time i listen to it
Jeff Buckley released one album and then died but still better than anything Sheeran ever made. lol
9:37 that part of perfect sped up literally almost made me burst out laughing while taking a sip idk why it sounds so goofy like that
I think an interesting video would be you reacting or revisiting Get To Heaven by Everything Everything as I think while it was not only good for its time, but its held up even better.
Has he already listened to this? I love that album, unless he didn't like it, I don't want to watch that lol.
@@suicidalkangarooz he’s already listened to it i think, but he’s never done a full reaction. He has praised it before but also has some problems with it too from what I’ve heard
"TASTED sweet PERFUME." No Ed, you smelled it.
9:35 how DARE you fast-forward through a LUKAS GRAHAAAAAAM moment, Brad
I can´t belive that this album has 9 million pure copies and it still being the best streamed album on Spotify. It shows the power od Teddy. I really love him. Hi was so cool at the time. His music is just amazing.
Omg tell me he kept the "AJR Spokestep" part
Edit: yesssss
Timestamp please
@@jeremyusreevu237 13:16
@@elephantcubed4133 Yeah, Ed Sheeran should not do spokestep.
I live in cork. The second biggest city in Ireland. It's by no means a big city, it's mostly towns spread out across the county. But holy Christ does everyone lose their minds when ed comes to cork. The radio stations lose their mind and everyone is at it. The station RedFm rebrand as fuckin EDFm for the period he's there. He's an artist deprived of art
The 1 thing I will say for Sheeran is the mans a genius for single handedly finding a cure for insomnia.
His old albums were actually pretty good for like someone who was a teengager and lyrics can be relatable and nostalgic and I enjoyed listening to those songs and still do not as much cause I’ve outgrown them but if I go back and listen to it it gives me nostalgic and he knows how to produce music and his voice is pretty good but I agree that his new music sucks now cause he’s an old man and peopole can’t relate Lmao cause he just doesn’t know how to express lyrics in a more creative and subtle way
I was in a restaurant in Spain the other day and they literally played Ed Sheeran for 1hr+ XD Either they had a fan working there or put on a Ed Sheeran compilation for background noise but it was so strange.
Some how Ed sheeran manages to be the most over rated and over hated artist simultaneously
ngl his recent "=" is far worse, this one at least has some fun songs but his newest has the boring ramped up to 11
I didn't mind Equals but it felt way too pop and not enough folk, and it lacked replay value, I can't believe some critics actually think it's better than Plus
Hell no are u crazy? Bad Habits & Shivers for example are amazing song
@@snorristurluson5849 I'll give Shivers a pass, but Bad Habits is awful besides the BMTH version
@@snorristurluson5849 I'll take your word for it. = was a 1/10 for me and I will not spend 48 minutes of my life listening to it a second time.
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i dont want to be that guy but please fucking educate yourself!
how you can call people autistic and then immediately follow that up with "they've never felt emotion in their life" is wrong on many levels. and then to call their comments disrespectful!?
This is the first time ive genuinely gave a fuck about using autistic as an insult. I hope you can treat this the same way you treated the fact you thought the way you talked about k-pop but later did research on its link to korean culture and how that made you think.
i usually love your content, Brad, but this is disrespectful.
Brad sus moment
It’s a joke. Plus these people can stand up for themselves they don’t need you jumping in front of the train for them. I could have easily left this part out but I decided not to, because people know it’s a joke.
Also I’m on the spectrum. So how about you go cry about it to someone who cares.
I guess it works as a complete pisstake of itself and the majority understands that
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial "go cry about it to someone who cares" wow, real good Brad.
I didn't know you were and In that case I feel like a bit of a tool reading back cause of the 'educate yourself', for that I apologise.
But also I too am on the spectrum and I suppose took it quite differently. Usually these wouldn't bother be but for some reason this did.
And yes I did realise it was a joke but I guess I really, really didn't laugh.
I still stand by a fair bit of what I said but I still do feel like q bit of a tool for the rest, reading back.
@@BradTasteInMusicOfficial I wasn't jumping in front of the train for just them, me being autistic is why it got to me.
i'd love to see you react to the album treat you better by shawn mendes is in, i used to be a massive fan of his and remembering it right now it's up there with divide as one of the most mid albums ever + there are a ton of questionable lyrics in it
Granted a lot of these songs are generic and boring, due to multiple reasons, does this guy really think a slow song is automatically bad?
Is there no place for ballads or slow songs in general in this world?
People nowadays only want songs that go on loop like a old nokia or classic gameboy/NES Nintendo ringtone or a Tiktok song!
In response to the "zoomers don't have the attention span" comment, I'd just like to add this: I've got an attention span, but I don't bullshit. If something doesn't peak my interest quickly, it's probably not gonna get any attention. I can watch a 3 hour movie easily if it's interesting, but a 3 minute song that's boring is getting skipped.
Brad, I love you, but you can't divide by zero to get infinity. Any number divided by zero is simultaneously trying to be infinity and negative infinity, which is undefined. Continue to grow, Brad. Much love
I really like the opening 3 here. Eraser, Castle On The Hill, & Dive are all tracks that I find very appealing in their own unique ways.
But after that, it’s almost entirely mid. Closer is nice though.
4:02 as a fellow Brit, I have no answers. The Sausage Roll songs are some of the worst creations of all mankind
I didn't mind the first couple but good god they've milked it to death
I legitimately forgot that Divide actually existed. lmao
The boyinaband reference caught me so off guard I coughed
I was never taught what laws there are!
Thought brad was joking when he said people liked Castle on The Hill, I deadass would rather listen to shape of you anytime over that song
L. Castle On The Hill is a beautiful masterpiece!
@@jeremyusreevu237 homie you genuinely think AJR is a great band we’re never gonna agree on literally anything. I ain’t even mad we just are very different people
@@Viper-dz2kw Fair. Lol.
@@Viper-dz2kw yeah bc ajr is a good band & shape of you is an amazing, catchy song. You just have shit taste
I think most of the album is boring, I'll put on castle on the hill and enjoy it. It's just a good sounding genuine sounding song
I don’t care what anyone says, the single emotional songs on his albums are actually good. You got A-Team, Photograph, Supermarket Flowers, and Visiting Hours.
I thought that said A-train.
Ed Sheeran is more talented than he leads on but honestly the world needs artists at every level of approachability and I'd say Ed is one of the more respectable names in the realm of bland music.
At the same time, it is fascinating how a lot of the music with the most listeners nowadays is so mind-numbingly generic.
This album is actually great compared to his two newest projects
The collab album is definitely abysmal but = is much better than ÷, the songs are competently made and they don't all blend in with each other, = is more like his x album but not quite as good.
Hey brad just came into say when you said “this chat is filled with autistic people”. It wasn’t okay and it’s not a term that should be thrown around like that, ableism isn’t okay and while I’m not one to say that policing what someone says is a good thing most of the time. I feel like you saying that was a sign of ignorance to a topic you yourself don’t struggle from, as an autistic person myself. We do have feelings
completely agree
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@@Loved87. "🤓" - 🤡
As an "autistic" person, it's not real. ADHD isn't real. Bpd, add, did, osdd, ocd, aren't real. They're psychologists feeding you pills and making you believe your behavior is okay. Learn self control, and you'll no longer have those problems caused by "autism"
@@chocolatesorbetred that statement in itself is ableist because it makes autistic people seem like they're emotionally unstable and mentally ill
Sheeran writes best when it's personal to him. It's the reason why Taylor Swift is successful as well as other singer/songwriters like Billy Joel, Kate Bush and Fiona Apple. Stop writing wannabe pop hits and just be genuine.
Very rare take, but you should listen to more of Jack Stauber's albums (HiLo, Finite Form) again. He pretty much stopped his work a year ago but I just found your video about Pop Food and I think his other albums might give you a kick too.
Oh yeah, and his micropop.
And should take a look at jack playing live, very strange experience but hes so bouncy and into his music. Leopard is my favourite song rn!!
@@cuandotumedasunagalleta7169 True, but also you should try listening to his pre-Finite Form songs, before he was popular like Juana Maria and Summer Sickness and Stones. They are great -- also yeah, he's quite the guy in real life.
Bro I bought that album the week it came out, better pop than most of the stuff I thought
Yea, Castle On The Hill and Galaway Girl were kinda fun even if I just barely remember them
Just had a crazy realision halfway through enjoying this video... I legit went to a concert for this album lmao
Wanted to make a "funny" remark but this music doesn't even get that out of me
I find it hilarious that you start yawning after just thinking about it again.
The 10,000 rocks bit had me dead lol
This sounds like weezer if they kept going in the direction that pinkerton goes in
I'm so sorry you had to discover Ladbaby, I don't understand the British public at all.
Please react to the no. 6 collaborations project. It’s so bad it’s entertaining.
Castle on the hill feels like when youre reading a recipe and the author just puts their entire life story before listing the ingredients
You should listen to Shape of You with the Stormzy verse, he makes the song a hell of a lot better
3:17
New Flaming Lips track sounds decent
I wanna see Brad react to Jason Mraz's 2020 album, Look For The Good. He would hate it!
The let her go lick makes my fight or flight activate every time
I highly recommend "Save Myself" which is on the deluxe version. Definitely one of the better songs on this album.
it's all kinda bland, but sometimes he makes really cute music. I hate his love songs(I'm not the target demographic for them lol), but Castle on the Hill and Visiting Hours are just adorable. Ik that Ed probably wasn't smoking at 15 or whatever, but I don't really care. it's cute and inoffensive, and sometimes I'm down
“I can handle slow” says the dude who couldn’t handle half of Hail To The Thief because of the more patient tracks. It is completely okay to not like slow, soft, calm music, but don’t say you can handle it when you have admitted you find those kinds of songs boring.
Stay mad
9:35 the sped of Lukas Graham lmfao
This album is so boring I fell asleep before he even played the first track.
I remember I really liked 7 years by Lukas Graham as a kid so when I heard castle on the hill I genuinely thought it was a 7 years ripoff at first from the first verse. I was really dumb.
I remember actually liking +, it was this one where I stopped caring for his music
I prefer Ed's rap singing songs. "Don't" is a favourite of mine.
The album was bad but somehow New Man ruined it even worse. Its like a reverse heat pump, pulling value away from absolute zero.
No the album wasn't bad. You just have shit taste
I absolutely hate music that sounds like this. It's offensively bland.
16:42 there was really no need to make that kind of comparison???
Jesus Christ just stfu & get tf over it. It was just a simple, harmless joke
@@snorristurluson5849 least ableist brad taste in music viewer
Multiply is definitely his best album, it has Sing and Don't which are easily his most interesting hits. Divide offers none of that.
Well, as a Sheeran fan, it was pretty painful to watch you and the chat absolutely slander some of my favourite songs ;(
Trash music