Why Is Ed Sheeran Successful?

[vernonk]

Ugly mug, scruffy dresser, charisma bypass, tuneless songs....what's so good about him? I just don't get it

[vernonk]

Not one good tune in any of his songs

[trt]

The song he is singing now, is called I'm a Mess, which just about sums him up :-)

[vernonk]

Maggie bee, The BEATLES created countless great tunes which will be remembered and loved forever.

[kvalidir]

He's successful because he ticks lots of 'success' boxes. His music is middle of the road so appeals to a vast amount of people of all ages. He's cool and young but non threatening (beloved of grannies everywhere). He's modest. He appears unchanged by fame. He frequently writes about his friends and family thus perpetuating the 'nice non threatening' image. He does lots for charity. He's a GINGER icon, he made gingers cool and acceptable ( I'm a Ginge, he's practically a God to us) lol. There is not much NOT to like about him, and thus there is a lot TO like about him. People feel they know him and he's always very publicly thankful for the support so he ha that lad next door thing going on, and his music is really really nice and relaxing and not in your face at all, so plenty of people like it in it's own right. He is aware and proud of his heritage. Observe the song he wrote about his Grandparents love affair for example of all the above. Love this song.

[-Talbot-]

I wish he would get a big boys guitar ... his acoustic is getting on my nerves now.

[jennyjoan]

I had twin brothers ginger - one still alive and still is at over 70 still a ginge with a few streaks of grey - wish I had have been a ginger.

[vernonk]

Kvalidir, I don't doubt he's a lovely down to earth fellah, but for me a singer / songwriter needs to have a great singing voice and great songs with great tunes, and to my ears Ed has none of those

[vernonk]

A singer / songwriter stands and falls by his or her songs, just as a restaurant stands or falls by its food.

[kvalidir]

Yeah well liking an artist is just subjective. I LOATHE Elvis Presley and the Beatles but I understand that other people like them :)

[kvalidir]

I just analysed why I think he's successful, I could do the same for Elvis for that matter and understand it, doesn't mean I personally have to like him :)

[ummmm]

Vernon just likes moaning :-)

[mazie]

He's successful because people buy and download his records as I said earlier. Simple really. It's personal taste

[mazie]

well he doesn't like answering questions, that's for sure.

[-Talbot-]

I don't think there will be many Ed Sheeran impersonators about 40 years after his death.

[vernonk]

Mazie, I just saw you asked who my fave rapper is. It will always be Eminem

[Barsel]

The song that kvalidir put on, Nancy Mulligan,(I bet gness would love that), to me, that isn't a pop song. It's a song that would be at home in an Irish pub with lots of drinking and dancing. I'm going to make a point of listening to some Ed Sheeran just to see if I might find something I like.

[mazie]

That's Ed's Favourite rapper too. He learnt all the lyrics to Eminem's songs and rapped them. That's how he got rid of his stutter when he was a child..The rap is so quick he didn't have time to stutter

[goodgoalie]

Vernonk, forget about his performance at Glasto and all that singalong stuff: to be honest it gets on my nerves with all singers and bands. When I go to a gig I want to hear the band or singer singing their songs, not the audience.

Anyway. Find a quiet place and really listen to his song 'The A Team', which he wrote when he was only about 18 and recorded not long after. I defy anyone to say that the depth of the lyrics, and the heartfelt quality of his voice singing them are not intensely moving, and especially perceptive in one so young. And his song 'Small Bump' on the same album is the the only non-classical piece of music that has ever made me cry.

[vernonk]

That's nice to know, Mazie, but sadly I still don't like any of Ed's songs....though I like lots of Eminem's

[ludwig]

He's not rubbish, he's ok - good actually. And that's the mystery. Why is someone that's just ok (good actually) so staggeringly popular, and playing the main stage at Glastonbury.