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DIPLOMA MUZIK
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POPULAR MUSIC

DR. CLARE CHAN SUET CHING

PREPARED BY :

HAZMAN BIN P.SAMMUDDIN

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ASSIGNMENT 1
FOLLOW AN ARTIST
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Ed Sheeran known as lame-haired singer/songwriter, beatboxer, and guitarist eclectic

blend of acoustic pop, folk, and hip-hop has been championed by everyone from the
underground grime scene to American Oscar winners. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire,
England in 1991, Sheeran released his first EP, The Orange Room, while still at school, and
his first two albums his self-titled debut and want Some by the age of 16. After moving to
London to gain more live experience, his performance of the self-penned "You Need Me, I
Don't Need You" on YouTube channel SB.tv gained half-a-million viewers and attracted the
attention of actor/R&B star Jamie Foxx, who invited him to appear on his Los Angeles Sirius
radio show. By the end of 2013, Sheeran had shifted his focus from performing to recording
his sophomore album, with Rick Rubin and Pharrell producing. In keeping with the
mathematical theme, the album was titled X ("Multiply"). Appearing in June 2014, X
encompassed his acoustic/hip-hop hybrid sound, but it also had an R&B feel in places, along
with straight-ahead pop. The record debuted at number one on both the U.K. and U.S. charts,
reached gold or platinum status in 15 countries, and the singles for "Sing" and "Thinking Out
Loud" both topped the British charts. Thinking Out Loud was written by Sheeran and Amy
Wadge and was produced by frequent collaborator. Furthermore, the song became the first
single to spend a full year in the UK top 40. Besides, it also became the first to be streamed
over 500 million times on Spotify, is also one of the most streamed songs in the UK and has
been viewed more than 2.0 billion times on YouTube as of December 2017. The most
succeed song make it received nominations for Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Song
of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 58th Grammy Awards, winning the latter
two.
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Next, to celebrate his birthday, Ed Sheeran has released a brand new song ‘How
Would You Feel (Paean) from his third studio album ÷ (pronounced “divide”). The album is
released March 3rd while the song was released on the 17 February 2017 as the first
promotional single from his album. The song was written by Sheeran while his girlfriend was
on her way to the airport to fly back home after a visit. He wrote the song, recorded on his
iPhone and sent it to her in an email. He said that the song was written basically just to say to
her, "It's really good, I feel happy, how do you feel? However, Sheeran admitted that "How
Would You Feel (Paean)" nearly didn't make it onto the album because he had forgotten that
he had written it. In an interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest, he said, "I finished the album
and I was going through notes and I said to my girlfriend, 'What's your favorite song on the
album?' She said, 'You've forgotten it existed and I have it in my e-mail because I’m the only
one you sent it to. So she picked it out from like, a year-and-a-half ago and I ended up
recording it.” He also insisted it was not an official single.

In addition, “Perfect” also a song from his third studio album then made a hitmaker in
his own right, but once he enlisted Queen B for his latest Billboard Hot 100 hit. It became as
flawless as the song title insinuates. According to Sheeran, who detailed how the
collaboration came together to Entertainment Tonight's Keltie Knight at iHeartRadio's Jingle
Ball in LA Friday the original version of "Perfect" only featured an acoustic guitar. When
Beyonce was tasked with recording her part of the song, she called Sheeran and said, "I don’t
know how you feel about this but I’ve taken all the instruments off it and it's just gonna be
acoustic guitar." To which Sheeran delightfully responded, "Ah that's great, because it used to
be that!”. Sheeran's efforts were clearly worth it, as "Perfect" jumps from No. 5 to No. 3 on
the Hot 100 this week (chart dated Dec. 16) only to be stopped by the ongoing battle for the
top spot between Camila Cabello's "Havana" and Post Malone's still-reigning "Rockstar,"
which holds at No. 1 for an eighth week.
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Moreover, Ed Sheehan has another new “Perfecr” rendition an operatic version of

"Perfect" with Andrea Bocelli, titled "Perfect Symphony" and sung partly in Italian. The ÷
singer released "Perfect Symphony" on Friday 15 December 2017 with the help of iconic
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Like "Perfect Duet" with Beyoncé, "Perfect Symphony" is
essentially a duet as well. But the track is given new life with classical instrumentation, as
well as Bocelli's verse, which is delivered entirely in his native tongue. Bocelli's words are
roughly a direct translation of what Beyoncé sings in her version, as well as what Sheeran
croons in the original, and like with Beyoncé, the song culminates in the two singers
harmonizing a final chorus. Sheeran released an accompanying visual with the song, which
features Sheeran and Bocelli laying down their vocal parts.

Finally, “Everything Has Changed” is a song about realizing your life has flipped
upside down after falling for someone new. The track appears on Taylor’s fourth album, Red,
and features vocals from her close friend Ed Sheeran. The music video for the song follows a
day in the life of two young children in the same elementary school class. They are both
misfits and become good friends, but their platonic feelings turn to something more. At the
end of the video, it is revealed that the girl is Taylor’s daughter and the boy is Ed’s son.In
spite of, Ed Sheeran is one of several songwriters that Swift reached out to write with her on
Red Album. She told Billboard magazine that the people she chose to collaborate with were
ones who inspired her. "You look at someone like Ed Sheeran," she said. "He comes from
such a sincere place as a writer, and his songs move you in every direction emotionally.
That's something I was so inspired by I ended up calling him.”. In fact, Sheeran and Swift
had a friendly battle over a chord while working on the song. Speaking to Zane Lowe in
MTV UK's Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain, Sheeran recalled, "She pretty much had the
verse, bridge and chorus done but we argued about that one chord (plays it). She didn't like
that but I forced it upon her!”.