{"id":117661,"date":"2024-05-06T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/06\/ed-sheeran-explains-why-he-gave-a-1-hit-to-justin-bieber\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T21:00:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:00:01","slug":"ed-sheeran-explains-why-he-gave-a-1-hit-to-justin-bieber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/06\/ed-sheeran-explains-why-he-gave-a-1-hit-to-justin-bieber\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran explains why he gave a #1 hit to Justin Bieber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-06\/m_EDSHEERANONGMASMILING_100423.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Paula Lobo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2015, <strong>Justin Bieber<\/strong> topped the chart with &#8220;Love Yourself,&#8221; which was co-written by<strong> Ed Sheeran<\/strong>. But when his pals asked Ed why he gave away a hit song, he had to remind them <em>they<\/em> thought it was lame.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/05\/04\/entertainment\/ed-sheeran-reveals-why-he-gave-love-yourself-to-justin-bieber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Page Six<\/em><\/a>, during a concert in Florida on May 3, Ed performed &#8220;Love Yourself&#8221; and spoke about the song&#8217;s backstory.\u00a0<span>\u201cI was writing a lot of songs about a lot of different things, and I wrote this song and honestly, I played it to people and they went, \u2018Meh,'&#8221; Ed told the crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He revealed that when he played it for Justin Bieber, Justin said he wanted it. &#8220;I went &#8216;Cool, have it,&#8217; and then it got very big,&#8221; Ed laughed. And when his friends asked him why he gave Justin the song, Ed said he replied, &#8220;You told me it wasn\u2019t good!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While in Florida, Ed attended the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C6lZVKbCyhe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>posted footage<\/span><\/a><span> on his Instagram of Formula 1 driver <strong>George Russell<\/strong> driving him around the track at top speed, which totally freaked him out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Paula Lobo In 2015, Justin Bieber topped the chart with &#8220;Love Yourself,&#8221; which was co-written by Ed Sheeran. But when his pals asked Ed why he gave away a hit song, he had to remind them they thought it was lame. According to Page Six, during a concert in Florida<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/06\/ed-sheeran-explains-why-he-gave-a-1-hit-to-justin-bieber\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}