Ed Sheeran revealed that he had written some of the biggest songs in his mind with Rihanna.
The 34-year-old Crooner made a appearance on March 26 in the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, confirming that he initially wrote his huge hit song “Shape of You” for the 37-year-old “Diamond” singer.
“Love Yourself” produced by Justin Bieber with Benny Blanco is another song he envisioned for Rihanna.
“Rihanna has the best taste in anyone,” he explained to host Jimmy Fallon. “She always chooses very, very good songs. So as a songwriter in the songwriting community, you are always writing songs to play to Rihanna.”
He continued: “Like every album I’ve ever done, I’ve been writing, right next to it, ‘Let’s try to write a song that we can play to Rihanna.”
“Your Shape of You” was released in 2017 and became one of the most successful songs of the year. It only accumulates over 4.2 billion streams on Spotify.
Sheeran told Fallon that the song “really doesn’t fit” him. However, after he made some adjustments, his views changed. Even then, he had to let his “head around it…because I was very much writing with other people.”
Fallon points out that two Rihanna’s moms are like your muse, Sheeran agrees, noting that he is not alone and inspired by art.
“I promise you there will be a lot of songwriters out there. [whose] The best songs come from songs trying to write Rihanna. ”
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