Ed Sheeran revealed that Jay-Z turned down his request to collaborate on his 2017 smash hit 'Shape Of You.'
“We were in touch,” Sheeran recalled. “I sent him the song, and he said, ‘I don’t think the song needs a rap verse.’ He was probably right. He’s got a very, very good ear.”track went on to be released as one of two lead singles, along with “Castle on the Hill,” off Sheeran’s third studio album. It became the musician’s best-charting hit to date by a landslide, spending 12 weeks at No. 1 on the“[Jay] usually gets things right,” the “Photograph” singer added in his interview.
, which published last week. It’s also been newly revealed by the publication that the singer-songwriter has been working with Netflix for two years on a new animated musical, for which he’s written “loads of songs,” and has high hopes for the future of his 2019 collaboration with Bruno Mars and Chris Stapleton, “Blow.”
“I feel like when people saw Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars, they were like, ‘Oh, that’ll sound a [certain way],'” he said of the rock song, which was met with comparatively mild reception upon its release. “It was so not. At some point, someone will come across it, and it will be put in a superhero movie or something.”
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