POP SONG REVIEW: "I Don't Care" by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber

NOPE NOT DELETED I FOUND IT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTKedRXxwA

Andreas Stahl

just fyi, an awkward video of Sheeran exists where we is auditioning for Popstars the Tv show (I think), and he keeps having it deleted of the internet. It is terrible but it also explains a lot about him. He is not great at dancing, and the hair was even worse back then.

Andreas Stahl

But Sheeran's really not a folk singer. Stuff like "The A Team" may be acoustic-guitar-based but it has precious little to do with anyone's traditional music. It's just part of the contemporary pop landscape, really. And it's not the only part of that Sheeran is comfortable in. As a songwriter he seems to be a natural over more or less the full range of UK/US smooth radio pop from about the past 20 years. That's also where all of his repertoire of styles as a singer comes from. It's when he tries to do traditional material that he's obviously stretching himself; and the result is not good. It's grisly misfires like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kVVn80pFOc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFlZXlfda6Y/watch?v=VFlZXlfda6Y . He'd probably fail a lot less miserably with a gospel song than "The Parting Glass" (Ray Charles would have done a lot better with both, *sigh*) but that's just it: he's a lite/white contemporary-R&B professional just as the Biebs is.

Leo Comerford

I'm bi and find Beiber cute. Nah it's not that. :3

sugarfrosted

I didn't even make the connection between the lack of male star power in pop music and BTS' rise to fame in the west, but that surprised me, at the very least.

I loved Ed's first two albums, but I listened to 30 seconds of this song and that was it.

Athena Alexandra

Seems like comparing Ed Sheeran to Sinatra is the bigger controversy

Todd in the Shadows

I for one liked Katy Perry's verse.

RedBedroomRecords

That bit with the sexual tension jokes had me ROLLING

air budd dwyer

Bieber always looks like he's one energy drink shy of being able to perform in these videos. I don't think he's earned that Post Malone ennui with the music he makes.

Megan Johnson

Musical Tofu: yes. Accurate.

Cristina Youngren

Dare you even entertain the idea of reviewing classic musicals Mr Todd. Hint hint this would be the definition of dreams if fulfilled :P.

Christian Thomas

Don't rip on "Sucker" now.

Josh Spicer

Oh, and for the record, I still enjoy River very much.

Josh Spicer

At least this one actually is sticking around for a few weeks, even if I doubt it'll be around much longer given the rate of pop music now-a-days.

Josh Spicer

I don't think I can think of a more shocking juxtaposition than those two songs side-by-side.

Joe G

I was at karaoke the other night (I live in Japan). There's a ranking screen where you can see the most sung songs. You can sort it by language. Most sung song in English? Shape of You (with Bohemian Rhapsody at #2) I don't understand this world.

Orestria

Oh shit, literally just the other day I played "We Care A lot" on Apple Music for the first time ever. Love me some Grosse Pointe Blank soundtrack.

Callen

At first I thought Love Yourself was a Shawn Mendes song.

Todd ... did you just compare Gene Kelly to JBiebs??

me

That 'pimping out a car when the battery doesn't work' metaphor is so good man

Joe Bush

It was probably because it went to #1 in the UK.

Grace

That picture of Ed Sheeran and Eminem accepting the gold record for River is such a beautiful mismatch that it could've been the only visual for this review and I'd be fine.

Rei The Gei

Nailed my thoughts exactly. When I saw the two were collaborating my first reaction was literally, "What? Why?" It's like mixing cheap wine and olive oil, separate sure they have their uses but what would even be accomplished if you put them together?

AstarothLuLz

Wait.....River went gold?!

James Wymer