His last
album never ends climbing the charts. In a few months, Ed Sheeran rose from
local star status to that of planetary celebrity. Already on stage several years ago but truly
revealed in the credits of the second part of The Hobbit, he now attracts fans
audience by his talent as a showman and his songs monopolizing the charts in record
time. Eclectic songwriter, he excels in
all music kinds as well as pop, folk, rock, soul and hip-hop. But what delights
the most is undoubtedly his true personality, still looking like a young street songster or at least the
boy next door.
"It's a little glib to call Ed Sheeran the
U.K.'s answer to Jason Mraz,
yet there's a grain of truth in that statement. Like Mraz, Sheeran plays
around with hip-hop cadences but at his core he's a singer/songwriter, and a
sensitive one at that, one who prefers love tunes to songs of protest,
something that is quite evident on X, his second collection of original songs.
Although he sometimes pours out his heart armed with no more than an acoustic
guitar, he's not a troubadour; those hip-hop roots means he'll not only ramble
out a rap, but he's also quite comfortable with luxurious, shimmering textures
and buoyant melodies. Naturally, these traits surface clearly on
"Sing," a collaboration with Pharrell
Williams that contains some of the natural ebullience of
"Happy," along with the upscale whitebread rap of "The
Man," but this good cheer surfaces on songs that are far removed from
rhythm. When Sheeran sings
slow, he rarely sings sad: he's a hybrid of Chris Martin and David Grey, a
boy next door who hasn't lost his shaggy romanticism. His sweetness isn't
cloying, not even when the productions are aimed straight down the middle of
the road, which they often are on X. His boyishness
doesn't give these immaculate confections grit so much as a wet, wide-eyed
puppy dog heart. Sheeran is
so good at this AAA gloss that whenever the mildly manic rapping surfaces --
which X does
about every three songs or so -- it's a bit of sand in the Vaseline, preventing X from operating
as smoothly as it'd like. Nevertheless, these gangly excursions in rap are
evidence of Sheeran's
youth and his generation, something that keeps X from being merely
a bit of excellently crafted mature pop and gives it some appealing character."
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