Anybody Else Getting Just A Wee Bit Bored Of Pop Tart Ed Sheeran?

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

.There's no celeb culture. There's no artists being selected based on their looks (Ringo). It's all about the music in the electronic scene and it's getting massive. Creative, individual musical talent has never been stronger. We are in the golden era of new music.

Stop it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

We are in the golden era of new music.

 

[Megazone]

Stop it.

Why is that funny?

I'm assuming you're still listening to music from 40 years ago?

Modern rubbish music:



When music was great:

 

[Bob'n'weave]

Like most real, organic, unmanufactured talents, poor old ES has been put through the industry mincer and come out bland as f***, MOR wallpaper music for hairdressers and wedding receptions. He's now in the realm of 'dad dancing' cringyness along with James Blunt who's only claim to fame IMO is replacing James Hunt in cockney rhyming slang, best thing he ever did, the whining toss.

 

[Buzzer]

It is silly how a few people on here are taking Ed Sheeran as completely representative of all music being made today because it's the most popular and therefore dismissing all modern music as rubbish, stale, bland..etc...etc. If that's the case then given that Jive Bunny was the best-selling artist of the late 80s then all music around then must also have been very crap with no discernible decent music being made.

I do love as well how people with absolutely no interest in listening to new music pontificate sagely on how little decent new music is being made because they've heard a track or two on a radio station whose target audience is people like them. The music scene is in very rude health, there's tons of talented musicians especially from the UK who are making all sorts of great tunes and anyone who claims differently is a)talking out of their arse and b) not even trying to look in the right places for it.

In short, you've become your parents - moaning that things weren't as good as your day. You're the ones who have become stale and boring.

 

[Bold Seagull]

It is silly how a few people on here are taking Ed Sheeran as completely representative of all music being made today because it's the most popular and therefore dismissing all modern music as rubbish, stale, bland..etc...etc. If that's the case then given that Jive Bunny was the best-selling artist of the late 80s then all music around then must also have been very crap with no discernible decent music being made.

I do love as well how people with absolutely no interest in listening to new music pontificate sagely on how little decent new music is being made because they've heard a track or two on a radio station whose target audience is people like them. The music scene is in very rude health, there's tons of talented musicians especially from the UK who are making all sorts of great tunes and anyone who claims differently is a)talking out of their arse and b) not even trying to look in the right places for it.

In short, you've become your parents - moaning that things weren't as good as your day. You're the ones who have become stale and boring.

How can you say this when someone has proved otherwise beyond all reasonable doubt with 2 YouTube clips?

 

[Megazone]

How can you say this when someone has proved otherwise beyond all reasonable doubt with 2 YouTube clips?

Don't make me post an Enya song.

 

[dadams2k11]

I love the bloke, he as more talent in his left little toe nail then all of us on this thread combined.

I think jealousy is too many people's problem.

Just my opinion.

 

[The Tactician]

I love the bloke, he as more talent in his left little toe nail then all of us on this thread combined.

I think jealousy is too many people's problem.

Just my opinion.

Also really like his music. If you truly dislike his music think you should just not listen to it rather than slag him off.

 

[Kaiser_Soze]

I agree with what you've said there.

I find his music mostly boring, but some of it is ok. Where he's gone wrong is adding a rap element to it, and just like any other big pop puppet these days, he collaborates with some rapper, both on stage, and on a single. It just the buissness trying to cash in on both markets, but it's quite sickening. Could you imagine proper artists/bands with self respect doing that?

Seeing him everywhere is beginning to grate. Eventually members of the public will actually believe that he's the dogs. I bet any major record company could do the same with someone similar and it would have the same effect, it just happens to be that he's the one who has been chosen, probably because he ticks a lot of boxes. It's all about victim hood these days, so the public lap up the idea that he was probably bullied at school for being ginger and being a beta.

Fair play to the bloke though, he's got what he wants, but he's probably to stupid to see what he's become.

What, like Elton John? Collborating with a dead Tupac and also did some live stuff with Chipmunk when Chipmunk covered/sampled Tiny Dancer.

If you had any idea what you were talking about, you would be aware that before breaking through, Ed Sheeran released two EP's of Collaborations which featured a number of up and coming British rappers. He did a lot of production back then as well.

Why can't people just go "not my cup of tea" rather than trying to argue that something they don't like is actually shit. Annoys the f**k out of me.

 

[Megazone]

Ed Sheeran is not my cup of coffee.

He annoys the f**k out of me.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

But don't mention this to those in Norfolk, because many are ADAMANT he's from Norfolk, not Suffolk.

Well the Norfolk/Suffolk border is a wild frontier . . . .

 

[Weststander]

Simply find Sheeran's music tedious.

His Colgate beaming smile on countless TV appearances is so endearing though.

 

[Weststander]

Like most real, organic, unmanufactured talents, poor old ES has been put through the industry mincer and come out bland as f***, MOR wallpaper music for hairdressers and wedding receptions. He's now in the realm of 'dad dancing' cringyness along with James Blunt who's only claim to fame IMO is replacing James Hunt in cockney rhyming slang, best thing he ever did, the whining toss.

I thought I was the only cynic who thought Blunt was crap. Media darling.

 

[Weststander]

Cross between Marty Feldman and a scotch egg

 

[LlcoolJ]

It is silly how a few people on here are taking Ed Sheeran as completely representative of all music being made today because it's the most popular and therefore dismissing all modern music as rubbish, stale, bland..etc...etc. If that's the case then given that Jive Bunny was the best-selling artist of the late 80s then all music around then must also have been very crap with no discernible decent music being made.

I do love as well how people with absolutely no interest in listening to new music pontificate sagely on how little decent new music is being made because they've heard a track or two on a radio station whose target audience is people like them. The music scene is in very rude health, there's tons of talented musicians especially from the UK who are making all sorts of great tunes and anyone who claims differently is a)talking out of their arse and b) not even trying to look in the right places for it.

In short, you've become your parents - moaning that things weren't as good as your day. You're the ones who have become stale and boring.

This is 100% correct. I'm no expert on new music but just listening to 6music, it makes you realise how much bloody brilliant stuff there is about.

Also, the way that young people access music now actually means that loads of them get into more diverse stuff than just "what's in the charts" and often listen to a lot of older music too.

It's all changed, but not all for the worse. The Adele, Coldplay, Sheeran sales are probably more fuelled by the same people who've always liked bland MOR stuff than the younger generation.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I hate SOAPS. They are RUBBISH. Middle of the road, overhyped in the media and not anything like they were in the OLD DAYS. All modern TV is GASH.


Just for comparison, like

 

[HantsSeagull]

I am no Sheehan fan particularly and the current exposure is slight overkill but the guy is clearly talented. I would rather have him on my radio and tv than 99% of all the other talentless, fame seeking, reality tv no marks that we are subjected to 24/7.

 

[Insel affe]

I do not mind the bloke, his music does very little for me, but he seems honest and nice, supports his local team.
My wife sent me these photos from May (she did tell me back then, but I was not listening)
Taken at or daughters old primary school Fairlights School in Brighton, she was super pi$$ed off as he went and Glenn Murray after she left the school.
Not sure how Mr J pulled that off, but I must say, he is by far the best headmaster I have come across.

Anyone see/know the massive Brighton fan in the photo, with what seems like some serious man love in his eyes looking at Ed.....

 

[Pogue Mahone]

He’s fine. Prepared to take the piss out of himself.