Ed Sheeran’s Album Disaster: Is Taylor Swift’s Star Power Sabotaging His Release or Just Cosmic Karma?
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Ever wonder if Mercury in retrograde might be messing with pop royalty these days? Because if Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran’s recent album release drama is any indication, the stars are definitely stirring up some celestial shade! Taylor, with her bazillion fans and razor-sharp tongue, apparently dropped her new album a mere three weeks after Ed’s, leaving him and his team scrambling like it’s the last chopper out of Saigon. And talk about a plot twist — these two have been like sibling rivals in the music biz jungle, but now it seems the friendship might be hitting a sour note, all thanks to Taylor’s strategic (some say sneaky) sales tactics. Cue the cosmic question: can a billion fans ever coexist without a few hurt feelings? Buckle up, because this saga is just getting started. LEARN MORE
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To quote the tagline for the 2010 film The Social Network, “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.”
In the case of Taylor Swift, it’s more like “you don’t amass a billion freakin’ fans without acquiring a handful of haters.”
And thanks to her poison pen and sharp tongue, quite a few of Tay’s enemies are fellow celebrities.
However, her latest (allegedly) burned bridge has nothing to do with her lyrics and everything to do with her record-breaking album sales.
Ed Sheeran has been friends with Taylor since they were both starting out as young, up-and-coming singer-songwriters.
They’ve collaborated on songs together, and Tay has even described Ed as being like a second brother to her.
But the music biz is a competitive one — especially in this day and age, when so few fans actually buy music — and it seems that Ed was not happy about finding himself unexpected competition with the industry’s biggest star.
According to a new report from the Daily Mail, Ed was shocked to learn that Taylor would be dropping The Life of a Showgirl just three weeks after the release of his most recent album, Play.
“Ed takes these things really seriously and carefully plans his album releases. He announced his album with four months’ notice, but then Taylor announced hers for just two weeks after,” a source tells the outlet.
“It left his team scrabbling to get as much attention before hers dropped.”
Ed, of course, is not the first industry insider to accuse Taylor of using shady tactics to ensure that no other artist matches her success.
“He was very much put out and understandably peeved. It is not the first time that Taylor has done something like this. She’s got form.”
Even fans have called Taylor out for the endless variants of the new album, which seemed to serve no purpose aside from lining her pockets and artificially inflating her sales figures.
And then there are the controversies pertaining to the album’s lyrics.
Taylor seemed to punch down at Charli XCX on “Actually Romantic,” a move that didn’t sit well with some listeners.
Of course, Tay has a long history of throwing shade at fellow artists, so that didn’t come as too much of a surprise.
But on “Opalite,” Swift seemed to take a shot at Kayla Nicole, an ex-girlfriend of Travis Kelce’s who’s never been involved in the music industry.
So Sheeran might be forced to keep this particular beef to himself — after all, the last thing anyone wants is to be immortalized in one of Taylor’s diss songs.
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