Who Actually Listens To… Ed Sheeran?


Here’s Josh speaking to Ed Sheeran.

Following on from last week’s wildly informative study into the fans of alopecia victim and purveyor of lowest common denominator wobble, Skrillex, our resident musicologist-in-training, Joshua Haddow, hit the streets to conduct another vital study: Who actually listens to Ed Sheeran?

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Rumours have been circulating for a while that the ginger troubadour’s fans are renowned for being really sad all the time, constantly lamenting the fact that nobody wants to hang out with them because it means they’ll be subjected to listening to a middle-class teenage boy sing about the hardships of being a drug-addicted prostitute. Also, according to science and facts, the average Ed Sheeran fan only has two friends in real life, so we hung out outside one of his gigs to uncover the truth.

Previously:

Who Actually Listens to…Skrillex?

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