{"id":1634,"date":"2016-07-17T14:28:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T14:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:12:53","slug":"ed-sheeran-concert-mumbai-india-music-shapeofyou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Loving Ed Sheeran in My Fabulous Forties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

M<\/span>y name is Priya, I\u2019m 40 plus and I\u2019ve been a Sheerio for two years and three months.\n\nWhat? It\u2019s not a crime to fancy the same bloke your teenage daughter does, especially when it\u2019s not some ripped, testosterone-dripping, expletive-dropping, spiky-haired pretty face (no offence, Teddy, you have a pretty heart). Also, <\/p>what\u2019s not to like<\/a>? The kid sings with his heart on his sleeve, his lyrics are totally comprehensible, the emotion is raw (in a good way), his voice is fabulous, and his personality is so refreshingly tousled and just-rolled-out-of-bed honest. And FYI, I have company. Lots of it. The mommies at the Divide concert were pretty upfront about grooving to the shape of Sheeran. The alpha daddies pretended to wear pained expressions at having to escort their minors, but their hips gave them away. Hips don\u2019t lie, remember pops?\n\nGQ\u2019s worst-dressed man<\/a> strolled on to the Jio stage at 8 pm sharp, in a Divide signature blue kurta and jeans, and unleashed all the faves, sans theatrics. No trampled toes by aggressive dudes showcasing their moves, this concert was a massive sing-along. The young couple next to me had a few strained moments during \u201cPerfect\u201d, with the boy struggling to film Sheeran without breaking the embrace with his beloved during \u201ctheir\u201d song. What you gonna\u2019 do, love\u2019s a giant compromise. And who knows that better than Sheeran.\n\nSo here\u2019s what makes yours truly and many from my\u2026 ahem, advanced demographic, happy Sheerios. I mean, how can you not like a guy who refused to play \u201cmy sword is bigger than yours\u201d in Game of Thrones<\/em><\/a> and chose instead, to slay with Celtic folk ditties. (Calm down, I said ditties, you pervs!) A guy who loves to hang out with Lloyd, Felix, Cyril, Keith, Nigel, and James the Second, i.e. his motley collection of christened guitars. Ed edited all expletives out of his lyrics at a cab driver\u2019s request, because said cabbie\u2019s daughter was a Sheerio. His cat has a massive Twitter following (@GrahamShizza<\/a>) and his first single \u201cSing\u201d, a zippy R&B track, was picked by the legendary Elton John<\/a>. Eric Clapton and Van Morrison are ardent fans.\n\n

Unlike the reigning music icons of the millennial, Ed Sheeran\u2019s just being himself, the guy next door, and doing the only thing he\u2019s good at.<\/blockquote>\n\nYou see? This is a guy who spends his 25th birthday looking up at the Northern lights, not throwing up in Snoop Dogg\u2019s blingy toilet. He\u2019s ditched his iPhone<\/a> and is a hardcore believer in digital cleanses<\/a>. He shares a bro-tattoo with Harry Styles. No, it\u2019s not a B-minor or an aborigine God, it\u2019s Pingu the penguin<\/a>. Grown up on Tolkien, writing a song for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/em><\/a>, was Ed\u2019s fantasy come alive. Ok, to celebrate, he did strap himself to a WW2 plane<\/a> owned by the director Peter Jackson, and go airborne, but hey, we all have our thrill fixes, don\u2019t we? Yep, the spicy in him is alive and well, and Nando\u2019s vouches for it with its \u201cEd\u2019s special Peri-Peri Sauce<\/a>\u201d.\n\nUnlike the reigning bleep-worthy, angst-ridden, tripping-on-substance music icons of the millennial, Sheeran\u2019s not battling disorders and depression, or hogging social media with edgy statements about his angst or genius. He\u2019s just being himself, the guy next door, and doing the only thing he\u2019s good at. \u201cI\u2019ve never been good at anything before,\u201d he confessed<\/a> to The Big Issue <\/em>in 2015. \u201cNever won at sports or any academic awards. This is the only thing in my life that I can win at. Unless Adele\u2019s about, obviously!\u201d\n\n\"Ed\n
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Ed Sheeran’s voice is fabulous and his personality is so refreshingly tousled and just-rolled-out-of-bed honest.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nDisarming, much? This utter lack of guile is what shines through in all his songs, whether they\u2019re penned for Robbie Williams, Diplo, or One Direction. Unlike the others, he\u2019s genre-agnostic in his sound, equally easy with R&B as he is with electronica, rap, pop, folk, or hip-hop. Which explains why a Tom Petty<\/a> fan felt comfortable swaying next to a Belieber<\/a> half her age or less, at the Sheeran gig. And why both look forward with the same enthusiasm to Minus<\/em>, the next in his series of mathematically titled albums and a purely acoustic, stripped-back affair. (Minus the production aspect, get it?)\n\nSpeaking of which, getting home from this teddy bear\u2019s picnic was no teddy bear\u2019s picnic. The Uber app caved at 10 pm sharp under the weight of all the Sheerios. And thousands took to the streets of BKC singing<\/a>, \u201cI know I\u2019ve grown, but I can\u2019t wait to go home…\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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