-Yeah, mark it.
-I want to be a Mega Mentor on "The Voice" because
I like "The Voice," I watch "The Voice" when
it's on TV in England.
I've preformed all around the world
in different "Voice" things, but I've been an advisor
with Christina Aguilera back in 2013 on the American "Voice."
I did enjoy my time with Christina.
It's usually just performances on the live shows.
I've never really done, like, full, full mentoring like this.
It's the first time I've done this.
-Hey. -Holy crap, That's Ed Sheeran!
-Going on? -What's up, man?
How you doing? -I'm good. How are you?
-I'm doing good. -Thanks for having me on.
-Did you, because our dressing rooms
are right next to each other, did you hear me performing
"Sweet Caroline"? -Yeah.
-I was really wanting to get you to critique my version.
Like, from a mentor's standpoint.
-It sounded beautiful, yeah. -It did?
-But you are a professional singer,
so I would expect it to sound great.
-Depends. -[ Laughs ]
-I'm so excited. -Do they have any idea?
-About you? -Yeah.
-No. -Cool.
-They're gonna be very excited. -I mean, it would be
a it anti-climatic if they were like, ugh.
-I hope they don't drop dead. Hello!
-[ Laughing ] Oh, my God! -Oh, my gosh!
-Hey. -This is Ed Sheeran, everybody.
-Alright. -Um, oh. Okay.
-Nervous? -A little.
-I mean, you're, you're here. -Hes' literally like an Avenger
of musicians, yeah. -Ed Sheeran, y'all!
-Aah! -Hey.
-Oh, my God! -That sounded like
a little bark. She was like, [Imitates barking noise]
-How are you? -Hello. I'm so good.
-How are ya? -This is intense.
-I'm singing his song. -Oh, you are?
-Uhp. -Which one?
-"Photograph." -And you didn't even know.
-I don't know, yeah. That's what I'm saying.
-Being a Mega Mentor and coming in is perfect
because you get to come and give constructive criticism
that genuinely makes a performance better,
and then leave.
-I feel like I'm gonna cry this knockout, because I know --
-Come on. Come on. -I'm like, oh, my God.
-I was saying my job's the best, I actually come in and go
"Yep, cool, alright, yeah. See you in a bit."
-Feels good, huh? -You know what I love about
"The Voice" actually, is that all your coaches
are so different -- I guess it's chosen in that way.
But they're all so different and they all have their own
individuality with how they do it.
-Usually the best singer that wins this,
or is it just --? -It's a combination.
-Who captures the nation? -Like, the guy that won
last season was really good and, plus he's on Team Blake.
It's hard to beat him, but Ariana,
she'll throw an interesting wildcard into it.
-It's her first year, isn't it? -First season.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Coaches are so great.
You can tell they actually really care about their artists.
-I'm so excited to be, like, Team Ariana's stage mom.
I'm gonna be like, "She needs to be on the "Today Show" tomorrow
and he needs to go to this tomorrow."
Everyone's gonna be like, "Stop contacting us."
-My take on this, when you hear, like, Beyoncé sing, right,
and you know Beyoncé can do everything.
-Yes. -But she sings, song first,
and then, like, every now and then when she does a run
you're like, "Oh, my God!" You don't have to necessarily do
all the runs straight away.
Slowly ease it in, and then by the end, when you're belting it
and it's like, "Oh, wow!" -There's nothing I can say
that's better than that when it comes to advice.
-Yeah, I think it's important to be able to take notes.
I take advice all the time still.
I know what I'm doing for some things,
but on other things, it's good to have someone go,
"Hey, you should maybe do this."
I was on a TV show when I was 16 and I didn't get it,
I remember being crushed and it just happened.
So whatever happens on this show do not stop.
I think, for me, the reason I'm telling all the kids
about the story when I was a teenager --
-Wait, wait, is this you? -It's me at 14
not being able to sing in-tune, yeah.
It's really bad. -What were you singing?
-A song I'd written. Kids always go,
"Oh, you have to be born with natural talent."
And I'm like, "No, you don't." [ Laughter ]
-[ Off-key singing ] ♪ I'm addicted to your -- ♪
[ Laughter ]
-I don't, I don't know, I think life just seems
so final in the moment.
And everything's finite and like, "this is the end"
and "this won't happen, and this won't happen."
But, life goes on. Life, days roll by.
And all that remains the same is your love for music
and your love for singing.
-♪ Now I'm ♪ [ Laughter ]
-I'm telling you, you can achieve anything in this world.
[ Laughter ] You can achieve anything.
-If you take things day by day and just everyday you wake up
and you go, "Look, this is what I want to do,
this is what I love doing," then you can never really
feel like you've lost.
-But my point is I learnt and learnt and learnt
and experienced and then I now have a career.
-Use this show for what it's great for, which is
being put in front of a massive national TV audience.
-You guys are way further ahead than I was.
-What a lesson, too, like, humility is amazing.
[ Laughter ]
-So there we go.
I had a great time.
Most, you know, it's not just the fun,
everyone here's been great.
Everyone here, there's a great atmosphere.