REVIEW: 'Divide' by Ed Sheeran

Education in the UK is fucked. This may not seem relevant to Ed Sheeran (though the word 'fucking' is always used whenever I discuss the man) but let me explain.

Sad Dance Songs Are My Favourite Songs

If lightning strikes me (or I fall into nuclear waste) and gives me the musical talent I've always wanted but never possessed; I would make sad songs. For a number of reasons, I am not a normal functioning member of society. Perhaps no-one is. Perhaps society itself is only a construct that people only pretend to be part of, or perhaps as human contact becomes fleeting due to a combination of bureaucracy and technology then we're losing our normality.

SHUT UP ED SHEERAN

I originally hated Ed Sheeran. My 'cool' friends were going mad over this guy (forgetting he wrote songs for One Direction) whilst I was getting excited about Kraftwerk's return, but I tried to put all taste aside so I could listen to his first album: + with open ears. I still hated it. I hated how Ed sounded so pleased with himself whilst singing about a prostitute dying of drug addiction in The A Team. I hated how he promised to be there for some person in Lego House without actually saying how he'll support this person (though, the music video is actually really clever). I hated the swagger he tries to convey in You Need Me I Don't Need You whilst sounding as nasally and out of his league as Vanilla Ice.