If you try to call Ed Sheeran In the past decade, you have probably not been very successful.
The quadruple winner of a Grammy Award reminded fans that he had not used his mobile phone since 2015. He revealed Wednesday March 26, episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon The fact that the phone is the inspiration behind his new song, “Old Phone”.
Sheeran, 34, remembered that he had to return his phone in the middle of the copyright violation trial surrounding his song “Thinking Out Loud”. A jury eliminated him reprehensible acts in 2023.
“In the trial, they order you to give up all your old devices,” he said. “So I gave everything but I did not use a phone. I moved to a tablet in 2015, just by e-mail, so I turned off my phone in 2015 and left it in a box.”
Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran were friends as long as they were collaborators. The friendship of the musicians began in 2012, the same year they started their first duo, “Everything changed”, on the Red Album of Swift. They appeared later in the video clip of June 2013 for the song alongside children’s actors representing younger versions […]
After the trial, he recovered his phone and lit it. The notifications came to flow, each taking it over in time.
Ed Sheeran.
Images Kevin Mazur / Getty for the Registration Academy“I turned it on, it was like getting into a time travel machine,” he continued. “As, the first text was my friend who died the previous year. The second text was an argument with an ex-girlfriend. The third text was a member of the family to whom I did not speak for 10 years. The fourth text was another companion who died.”
The moment moved him so much that it generated the song on which he made his debut The Tonight Show.
“I was in a way, like, scrolling down, it really turned me,” he said. “And that day, I wrote in my notes, like:” I found my old phone today “, then I finished this as a song, and I ended up writing it in a song.”
The song itself tackles specific emotional moments in Sheeran (“Conversations with my dead friends”) and these lighter and frustrating moments that we all endure (“combinations” because my password had changed “).
The name “old phone” has also lent itself to An ad that Sheeran will open In Ipswich, Massachusetts, for two days. To enter, guests must go to their old phone and find a message or video that means a lot for them. These messages and videos will then be projected on the walls of the ad.
“We serve, like Guinness and Tater Tots and S—. It’s going to be so cool,” said Sheeran.
The old telephone ad will be open on Friday March 28 and Saturday March 29 and fans will be able to see how it was built in the clip for the accompanying song.
