- My super power, I think would be the power to heal,
for anyone in your life, or like anyone.
Hey, I'm Ed Sheeran
and I'm answering 21 questions for 2021.
(relaxing synthpop music)
A dance bop.
I love Japan, but if I had to travel anywhere,
I would probably choose a country that I hadn't been to.
So I would say my favorite place to travel
would be the unknown.
(foreboding digital echo)
I think I would rather perform live at the VMAs
than shoot a music video.
Music videos are fun, but like,
I think when you're a music artist,
you're not in your bedroom going, oh my God,
I can't wait to shoot a music video,
you're in your bedroom being like,
I can't wait to get a studio session
so I can record this song I've written.
So music videos are fun,
but they're not what you do it for.
So performing is what I do it for, I love performing.
My 2021 VMA performance in one word.
Serene. Look at the view.
(choir singing)
To be honest,
after parties suck, (sad trombone whining)
like, they're never as good, the best after parties
are the impromptu ones where like, 12 people go to.
I would say
best English act, (trumpet playing)
because then I might actually have a chance
of winning it now
and then.
Somewhere random, like I like, I like having awards in,
like not having like
a shelf for them, (bells tinkling)
but having them just like around.
To be honest, like I've only ever won two,
and both times I didn't expect to win them, at the VMAs
I feel is like, there's superstars here,
there's real, real superstars.
So I walk into it (camera shutters clicking)
and I'm like, okay, tonight's not the night.
So when I won the two moon people, yeah, I was shocked
and happy.
I can play guitar, kind of. (guitar chord rings out)
I can play cello, kind of.
(cello note rings out)
I can play drums kind of (sticks clicking)
the bass because it's basically
just the guitar, (guitar riff playing)
kazoo, (kazoo buzzing)
tambourine, that count? (tambourine rustling)
Yeah.
I released a song about a month ago called Visiting Hours,
which I wrote in a state of grief about losing a friend
and seeing a kind of whole community of people bond
with one song, with all their grief.
That's been like a really amazing thing to watch.
It warms my soul, I think.
I love singing in the shower. (water trickling)
Shower makes everything sound awesome.
I actually write songs in the shower,
not with the shower on,
but sometimes I'll just go in,
like all the venues that I used to play have these huge,
like communal showers
and they just sound great, so I would go
into the communal shower with a guitar for a couple of hours
and write a song.
Do you know what? It's not just 2021.
It's like every single year I'm embracing failure more.
I feel like people are forgetting how important failure is
and picking yourself back up
and trying again
and getting something.
When things go wrong, that's not the worst thing.
Learn from it
and try again
and move on.
Like when a single comes out,
I like, see what people
think about it, yeah. (wood block chiming out)
So recently I did like a hell of a lot of Zoom interviews
for Bad Habits,
and it was always, what's your bad habit?
And I was like, (crickets chirping)
Yeah.
I don't really use emojis, (plastic tapping)
I do a lot of emails.
It'd be weird to like, send emails with loads of emojis.
I've got the pink suit, yeah.
I actually have two of those pink suits.
One they had to cut holes in for the stunt wires,
and then I have one in my closet.
I'm kind of hoping, my album comes out on Halloween,
so I'm like, I might just wear that for Halloween.
I don't know.
All the best names have already been taken up
by the other fan accounts.
I kind of like, early on in my career,
there were lots of people, everyone was calling my fans,
Sheerinators, (robotic voice echoing)
and I was like, that sounds so weird,
and then someone said Sheerios (audience cheering)
and I was like, oh, that sounds funny,
but I think I create another one, another stan name.
I think my mum
and dad are very inspiring people.
My mum is like a Saint (gospel music swells)
and an angel and I feel like a very kind caring person
and that inspires me to do, like she's so involved
with the local community
and charities
and blah, blah, blah,
and I think that that's helped me get into that.
And I think my dad for my work ethic,
I think that I've got that from him,
and he just gives me a lot of advice.
I can't really say this in New York
'cause New York pizza rocks,
but like, in England kebab shop pizza,
but with ketchup. (ketchup squirting)
I know that sounds weird, but give it a go.
My biggest pet peeve is just rude people.
(monster groaning)
My super power, I think, would be
the power to heal, (high-pitched trumpeting)
(crowd awing) for anyone in your life
or like anyone,
you could just literally just spend a day
at a children's hospital
and just be like, all good.
Hi I'm Ed Sheeran
and that was 21 questions for 2021 with MTV,
and I hope you enjoyed my VMA performance, nice one.