If it is a single release, they've done really well to not let a title be known up to 4 hours beforehand.

He could be doing what Drake did with 'Pop Style' and 'One Dance'? Throwing more than one option out there and seeing which one sticks?

 

But yeah. I don't think this is an album anymore!

The single is called Shape Of You

I saw a tweet on twitter which put Cheap Thrills on top of the teasers of the song and it sounds identical!

Dual release. "Shape of You" and "Castle on the Hill" are out now.

"Shape Of You" sounds like it's going to be really big

 

(so naturally i will love it and buzzjack will hate it)

Shape of You sounds really good! Funny he's gone tropical, the same as the rest of the pop world, the general public will still see it as 'real music' though. Castle on The Hill sounds like a U2 track, not a fan.

It's very barely tropical, but still tropical. Shape Of You is brilliant!

Castle on the Hill is also great.

 

 

Shape Of You sounds off-puttingly similar to Cheap Thrills when it starts, but I'd forgotten by it by the end of first listen. I think it is the better of the two, catchier for sure, but I really enjoyed both so subject to change!

 

Slayed that he's given us two tracks that have different vibes from each other, and neither are a Boring Out Loud!

I definitely prefer Shape Of You as well, Castle On The Hill is great too but I think it will be more of a grower. If the power of the last 30 seconds was the whole song it'd be my favourite of the 2, but it builds nicely. Shape Of You is such a tune, it definitely succeeds in being bang on trend with the tropical influences but it's still got everything that makes me love an Ed Sheeran in it so it doesn't feel like like a jump the shark moment just to get an easy hit.

 

Sia WISHES Cheap Thrills was as good as SOY tbh.

Shape Of You is really good and catchy chorus.

 

Anyone been listening to him on R1? Wondering if he's said when the album will be out. It'll be huge but not as big first week sales as Adele obviously.

Edited January 6, 20178 yr by common sense

I don't like 'Shape of You'. Maybe it will grow. I hate the chanting after the chorus, which sound too much like 'Speeding Cars' by Walking on Cars. It also annoys me in the lyric video that the girl is holding the same phone as the boy lol, with the text balloons on the wrong side.

 

'Castle on the Hill' is definitely preferable for me at the first listen although it doesn't set me alight either.

I'm liking the sound of both so far however castle on the hill is the more instant track for me. Hoping shape of you will grow on me.

 

Shaoe of You sounds more The Greatest than Cheap Thrills to me melodywise. I absolutely love it, already up there with Don't and A-Team

 

Goddamnit Rih tho, she coulda have this smash for herself

Shape Of You sounds massive. Impressed with it myself anyway, and the other one isn't bad for what it is.

I don't really get the Cheap Thrills comparisons, as if Sia invented tropical house :lol: I can hear The Greatest a bit more too. It would have been incredible for Rihanna though!

Goddamnit Rih tho, she coulda have this smash for herself

 

Reading what he said about it, I don't think he actually sent it to Rih in the end so we can excuse her ass.

 

But tbh I hate Rih for letting so many smashes get away from her in the past years. 'Timber' (This one I'm OK with as it's awful), 'Lean On', 'Cheap Thrills' (the one I'm most pissed about as I think it fits perfectly fine on ANTI and would've been her 15th US #1) and now possibly this? That bitch.

 

Although can you really picture Rihanna singing the lyrics of 'Shape of You'? It sounds nothing like what she would be singing about. I wonder why he wrote this with her in mind?

Castlle on the hill sounds great on first listen, I love the lyrics and the pace, nice number!

 

Shape of you is a total "Cheap thrills" rip-off instrumental wise, it's basically the same intro. I'm always suprised how big acts can come up with such obvious rip-offs :lol:

 

 

And the press is already on it : http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/06/ed-sheeran-d...hrills-6364530/

Edited January 6, 20178 yr by Hayzayy

It's fine though, it's still its own song. The similarities in the intros are quite striking but the song itself is very different.