Album Rating: 2.0

You cannot be serious JWT

Album Rating: 5.0

Of course not, I just tend to think some of the opinions on here are a bit harsh, the guy's got talent.

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

Sure, but Ed Gein had talent at what he did too

damn lol

Album Rating: 2.0

Idk the music is pretty standard and the lyrics are abysmal



Edit: OMG DOOF

judging by that P4K review I don't think I'd ever want to discuss pop music with any of their writers ever tbh

dunno how the album is aside from Shape Of You but it seems like Laura Snapes is making a fairly strong case for wresting the I Hate Fun And Can Only Write If I'm Injecting My Words With Metric Fucktons Of Petty And Mediocre Snark award from Ian Cohen

Album Rating: 1.0

I thought the P4K review was good until that last paragraph.

Then for some reason the writer starts taking things way too seriously and attempts a socio-economic/gender politics based critique of Ed Fucking Sheeran, as if he deserves to be taken that seriously.

This is rubbish because the songs are awful, he can't rap, his lyrics are hilariously cringey and he's tried to tick boxes and give every random person a song he thinks they'll like

Of all the things one could criticise Sheeran for, you'd have to get quite far down the list before you bring up his supposedly two faced personality, but then that's pitchfork for you

Album Rating: 1.5

He turns his attentions to his ex. What happened to that sweet, sylvan girl who used to read and eat crisps by the river? “Now she’s eatin’ kale/Hittin’ the gym/Keepin’ up with Kylie and Kim.” You mean, when she could be listening to Sheeran rap about his daddy?

i will never understand why so many people i know like ed sheeran

Ed Gein> [2]

Album Rating: 2.5

To the guy who said "music doesn't get more generic than this"... Oh man I wish I had your naïveté. What a charmed life you must have lived so far.

Go and watch x band perform at some crappy venue on a tuesday night, singing about soaring free so high in the sky, and a red-haired doofus awkwardly rapping over celtic beats seem will like a revelation.

Album Rating: 1.5

"Of course not, I just tend to think some of the opinions on here are a bit harsh, the guy's got talent."



sure he's got talent but i've always found "compensation" ratings to be stupid

Album Rating: 2.5

Agreed re compensation ratings generally, but the logic sort of makes sense given the amount of "Ed Sheeran haha lol isn't he that guy" 1.0 reviews.

Don't really have anything against this guy, his music is too inoffensive for me to really care about having an opinion on it EXCEPT...

I can't stand that he is now being spoken of in the same breath as Elton John, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, etc. (at least in millennial circles). NO. Just no no no and no. He belongs more with the likes of Train, Maroon 5, and The Script. I mean there's even better artists at his own shtick -- Jason Mraz, James Blunt, John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Matt Nathanson, Mat Kearney, Guster, the list goes on.

Again it's not that I don't like him, he's as harmlessly catchy as any other dime-a-dozen pop artist. But compared to the creative depth of the aforementioned legends he's now somehow in the same conversation with, Ed is just undeniably shallow and simplistic. I mean he even pales in comparison to a myriad of better contemporaries.

But alas, shallow-yet-clever wordplay + half urban rhythms/half sappy singer-songwriter schmaltz + tattoos and a British accent (so it feels "indie") = literally the perfect combination for equally shallow, urban, and sappy high school/sorority girls along with their still-trying-to-be-hip moms. His stuff so expertly, so perfectly capitalizes on that demographic it's kind of unreal...the guy clearly knows his audience and is quite content simply pandering to them unashamedly. And who can blame him really, he's gonna make a fortune off of it.

pandering bitter cliche bollocks

Album Rating: 2.0

holy fuck galway girl isn't by kidz bop?

His next album will be ^ and the entire Sputnik community will break

I own every single Ministry CD. You've run out of lies!

that's not a proud achievement

Album Rating: 1.5

What would be, owning every Front Bottoms record?