Ed Sheeran This Friday, February 13, he surprised the 70,000 attendees at the Accor Stadium in Sydney by explaining, in the middle of his tour Loop Tourthe reason why he has not used a mobile phone for more than ten years. British singer He took advantage of a break in the show to remember the long legal process he experienced following the copyright lawsuit filed in 2015, in which he was claimed for $100 million for allegedly copying elements of Let's Get It Onby Marvin Gaye, in his success Thinking Out Loud.
The judicial battle, which It was not resolved until 2023 with a New York jury ruling in his favor, It deeply marked the artist. According to BillboardSheeran explained that during the process had to hand over his electronic devices to review messages and files. “The only thing I'll say is that I'm glad there's nothing weird about them, you know?” he joked to the Australian audience.
That episode was decisive for Sheeran to completely abandon the use of his cell phone.. “I did a tour here in 2015 and I remember at the end of the tour I turned off my phone and thought, 'I don't want to use a cell phone again.' I switched to email and I've used it ever since,” he confessed.
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The singer also recounted the emotional impact he felt when, years later, He had to turn on that same device again to review messages related to the lawsuit. “It was like traveling in a time machine to 2015. But not just to 2015, but to 2007, when I started texting this number,” he explained. That experience, full of nostalgia, ended up inspiring the creation of Old Phoneone of the most personal songs in his recent repertoire.
With this revelation, Sheeran offered his followers an intimate look at how a legal process that lasted almost a decade transformed his relationship with technology and his way of communicating.
