Sheeran continued, "It's all fun and games at the start. The buses would park underneath arenas and I'd sleep on the bus all day and then wake up and then come out, do the show, drink, get back on the bus," the Grammy winner said during a 2020 interview for the Hay House Chasing the Present Summit. If his extensive legal history is any indication, it won’t stop him from churning out another derivative hit, and his unsuspecting fans from eagerly consuming it."Basically, I was touring and I would stay up and drink all night. Considering the aforementioned media spectacle regarding the use of Gaye’s catalog, Sheeran is guaranteed to make more headlines as this case progresses.Īs “Bad Habits” takes over the pop radio and Spotify playlists this summer, it will be interesting to see whether the party anthem will have any of his industry peers crying foul. judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit from a company called Structured Asset Sales LLC, who say they own one-third of “Let’s Get It On” co-writer Ed Townsend’s estate, which is currently suing Sheeran over copyright infringement of the Marvin Gaye track, claiming that Sheeran’s smash hit “Thinking Out Loud” ripped it off. Currently, his royalties for “Shape of You” are on hold by the U.K.’s High Court after an artist named Sam Chroki claimed the tune borrows the chorus to his song “Oh Why,” which he sent to Sheeran’s circle in an attempt to work with the artist. Just a month after that amendment, Sheeran credited songwriters Mark Harrington and Thomas Leonard on his 2014 song “Photograph,” settling a $20 million lawsuit in which the pair claimed he ripped off a song they penned for the 2010 winner of The X Factor, Matt Cardle, called “Amazing.” And a year later, in 2018, he settled another lawsuit, along with country singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, for a song he co-wrote with the pair called “The Rest of Our Life” that Australian musicians Sean Carey and Beau Golden alleged was a “blatant copying” of the song they wrote for artist Jasmine Rae called “When I Found You.”īut Sheeran’s legal woes are hardly in the past. While The Weeknd’s reputation has hardly been crippled by these accusations-his foray into ’80s dance-pop on After Hours has been largely interpreted as a conscious tribute as opposed to theft-Sheeran’s fast-accruing legacy of allegedly copying his peers’ homework has left a larger imprint on the way his artistry is perceived and questioned by the public, which makes “Bad Habits” feel like another liability rather than a savvy segue into the updated disco sounds of the new decade.Ĭuriously, the most notable and widely discussed of these allegations didn’t involve a lawsuit at all, but resulted in Sheeran accepting defeat when he preemptively credited Xscape members Kandi Burruss (also a cast member on The Real Housewives of Atlanta) and Tameka “Tiny” Harris on his smash hit “Shape of You'” in 2017 after social media users suggested that the song’s pre-chorus sounded like TLC’s “No Scrubs,” which the pair co-wrote. It’s interesting that The Weeknd is considered a main point of reference for Sheeran’s new work, not just because his recent music is so obviously inspired by artists before him but because both musicians have attracted several plagiarism lawsuits in the relatively short time they’ve been in the public eye. The song’s themes of indulgence and self-destruction (“my bad habits lead to late nights endin’ alone / conversations with a stranger I barely know / swearing this will be the last, but it probably won’t”) set over an ’80s dance beat have also struck some as similar to The Weeknd’s blockbuster album, including The Guardian’s Alexis Petridis who highlighted his “influence in its lyrical conflation of sex with wracked, compulsive hedonism.”
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