![]() It took him three days to write the song, which was unusually long for him, as he felt the song "was too special to get wrong". Sheeran wrote "Shivers" at the end of the Divide tour, when he set up a studio at a rented farm in Suffolk where he had his last date of the tour. Sheeran referred to the song while explaining why the album title was = instead of –, as fans had predicted, in which he said: "I was making the record and I wrote a song called 'Shivers' and I was like, 'This doesn't really feel like ". The song also topped the charts in Austria, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. "Shivers" entered atop the charts in the United Kingdom and Ireland, dethroning Sheeran's previous single " Bad Habits" after eleven consecutive weeks at the summit in both countries. ![]() The point is that even the bigger genre is the same doesn’t mean two songs are the same, especially if they aren’t subgenres. And that is the beauty of music." Shivers" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, released through Asylum Records and Atlantic Records on 10 September 2021 as the second single from his fifth studio album, = (2021). Even the 2000s/2010s EDM wave has subgenres of trance, dubstep and house, just to name a few. But that’s with every big category of music. “Bad Habits” vibes match the 2000s/2010s, unlike The Weeknd’s 80s vibes.īut remember, the 80s is still the blueprint for most pop songs these days, so it’s understandable that sometimes there might be overlap which is why there are sub-genres to everything. The 2000s/2010s EDM can also be defined with other songs like Chris Brown’s “Don’t Wake Me Up” and Calvin Harris’s “Feel So Close.” That’s where Sheeran’s new single fits in. Supermode’s 2006 song “Tell Me Why,” and September’s 2012 song “Cry For You” are clear examples. Sheeran’s song is more reminiscent of the 2000s/2010s era of EDM, and you can see that in other pieces. This is where Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” comes in. Its influence is how things like electric dance music (EDM) became so popular in the 2000s and 2010s. This is where things get tricky, but the 80s are (and will always be) the blueprint, the inspiration, for dance/pop music. Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield,” Billy Idol’s “Dancing with Myself” and even Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing In the Dark” have a sound that screams the 80s just like The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights.” ![]() A sample from A-ha’s “Take on Me” and Michael Sembello’s “Maniac.” Or, as I like to call them, standouts from that era.īeyond that, if you take a look at 80s music as a whole (which is hard, but I picked a few so you can follow along with my madness), it all had a specific sound. “Blinding Lights,” like many other songs, is sampled. It’s the reason why the song became an earworm for so long after its release. “Blinding Lights” is clearly an 80s dance, pop and even rock-inspired song. This is very important in the music world. To start, both singles from their respective albums have different producers. What gets me is saying that the songs are the same. The suits, the darker imagery - sure, I’ll agree with that. Both artists completely changed their look when they announced new albums. People on the internet are comparing “Blinding Lights” to “Bad Habits,” which is understandable. ![]() But my frustrations have to do with Ed Sheeran and The Weeknd, both artists I enjoy for different reasons. ![]() At this point, I’m convinced that my past selves grew to push people away more aggressively as I was reincarnated. ![]()
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