Ed Sheeran has revealed he confides in fellow pop icon Taylor Swift with the artists having more in common than we may realise.
Singer-songwriter Sheeran, 32, recently won his copyright trial after a jury found in favor of the musician after he was accused of copying parts of Marvin Gaye’s hit, Let’s Get It On, for his 2014 song, Thinking Out Loud.
Similarly, country music star Swift found herself embroiled in a copyright lawsuit that alleged she had plagiarised her hit song Shake It Off, which was eventually dropped.
In a new interview, Sheeran revealed he has ‘long conversations’ with the All Too Well hitmaker, and branded her ‘one of the only people that actually truly understands’ him.
Speaking to Apple Music 1‘s Zane Lowe, he said: ‘I had an hour-20 conversation with her yesterday and we were just – everything that was on our minds we talked about. I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well, because you’re actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it.
‘That has all the things that you feel and have insecurities about and how other people treat you or how your family treat you, how your friends treat you. She’s basically in the same sphere.’
The Perfect hitmaker, who is currently promoting his new album ‘-‘ (Subtract), also revealed he has a similar friendship with grime star Stormzy.
He added: ‘I have a similar sort of friendship with Stormzy, where I know what he’s going through and we can talk about it. His friends would be like my friends, where they say the same things.’
Sheeran has shared his delight at not having to walk away from his music career following his copyright trial win.
It comes after he vowed that he would be ‘done’ with music if he was found liable when he appeared in the stands during the trial.
Speaking outside of the courts, he said: ‘I’m obviously very happy with the outcome of this case and it looks like I’m not going to have to retire from my day job after all.
‘But at the same time I am absolutely frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all.
‘If the jury had decided this matter the other way we might as well say goodbye to the creative freedom of songwriters.
‘We need to be able to write our original music and engage in independent creativity without worrying at every step on the way that said creativity will be wrongly called into question.’
He also expressed his upset that the trial meant he couldn’t attend the funeral of his grandmother in Ireland.
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