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Any Fan's here, the latest album is amazing.
In a statement accompanying the album announcement, Sheeran said he had scrapped 10 years of work on – (initially intended as a purely acoustic album) that had resulted in hundreds of songs, after a series of events in his personal life in early 2022. “In just over a week, I replaced a decade’s worth of work with my deepest darkest thoughts,” he said.
These events included his pregnant wife being diagnosed with “a tumour with no route to treatment until after the birth”; the death of “best friend … a brother to me” Jamal Edwards, the music entrepreneur whose platform SBTV helped launch Sheeran’s career; and the trial for plagiarism he eventually won in April 2022, when he had been accused of copying another song for his hit Shape of You.
“I was spiralling through fear, depression and anxiety,” Sheeran said. “For the first time I’m not trying to craft an album people will like, I’m merely putting something out that’s honest and true to where I am in my adult life.
