Ed Sheeran has defined why he’s been absent from social media for the previous few years, and has promised to renew posting.
The pop star mentioned in a video shared on his Instagram account yesterday (January 31) that he “didn’t really feel like being online” when he was experiencing “some turbulent things” in his private life.
In a selfie video, the singer started: “Hi guys, so I realise I haven’t been that engaged in my social media or my fan base on-line during the last couple of years. And the issues which have been posted on this account may need received a bit boring. And I’m sorry, it’s my fault.
“The reason I’m making this video is, just being totally honest, I’ve had some turbulent things been happening in my personal life, so I just didn’t really feel like being online and pretending to be something I’m not when I wasn’t feeling like that.”
He continued, saying that “things are looking up” and now that he’s again on-line, “weird shit is gonna start being posted”.
“I’ve made this video like 50 fucking times, I’m not making another one,” he mentioned jokingly earlier than signing off.
Sheeran hasn’t been completely off responsibility. Last 12 months, he posted a video on his Instagram to rejoice his tune ‘Shivers’ reaching the billion-stream mark on Spotify. In the method he shared that he was on set of a yet-unknown music video for his follow-up to 2021’s ‘=‘ (Equals) that he mentioned shall be launched this 12 months.
Like many excessive profile artists, Sheeran doesn’t use many social media platforms in a private capability. That contains Twitter, the place he has as an alternative opted for his web page to be managed by his crew as ‘Ed Sheeran HQ’.
In different information, final month Sheeran honoured his pal, the late Jamal Edwards, with a 64-bar freestyle for SBTV, the web hip-hop and youth tradition broadcaster that Edwards based in 2006.
Sheeran’s freestyle was filmed inside an empty Stamford Bridge – house stadium of Chelsea FC, whom Edwards was a lifelong fan of – with the identify Jamal spelled out within the stands. The singer-songwriter delivered a uncooked, emotive set of bars as he expressed his grief at Edwards’ loss of life, aged 31, in February of final 12 months.