{"id":117674,"date":"2024-05-08T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/08\/ed-sheeran-says-he-went-to-the-met-gala-as-a-result-of-preparing-for-next-album\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T21:01:40","slug":"ed-sheeran-says-he-went-to-the-met-gala-as-a-result-of-preparing-for-next-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/08\/ed-sheeran-says-he-went-to-the-met-gala-as-a-result-of-preparing-for-next-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran says he went to the Met Gala as a result of preparing for next album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-08\/Getty_Edsheeranmetgala_050824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/MG24\/Getty Images for The Met Museum\/Vogue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ed Sheeran<\/strong> was a surprise face on the red carpet at the Met Gala on May 6, but he says he only ended up attending because he&#8217;s been working on the\u00a0clothing he plans to wear when he releases his next album.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NPXdAp6PpZg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>behind-the-scenes video for<\/strong><em><strong> Vogue<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> Ed explains that he&#8217;s known designer<strong> Stella McCartney<\/strong> for eight or nine years, and she will occasionally send him a piece or two. &#8220;For this next album campaign I&#8217;m going into, we&#8217;re sort of doing some clothes for videos and that&#8217;s when the conversation came up,&#8221; Ed says. &#8220;I went in for a fitting and she was just like, &#8216;Come to the Met.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprising that Ed is planning his video outfits now, though, since he recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/ed-sheeran-says-he-wont-release-new-music-this-year-exclusive-8642855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>People<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0he&#8217;s not planning to release any music in 2024. &#8220;I&#8217;ve made the new music and I&#8217;m just going to sit on it for a bit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, McCartney\u00a0says the baby blue tuxedo she designed for Ed was &#8220;inspired&#8221; by him \u2014 specifically, she wanted it to match his eyes \u2014 and you&#8217;ll learn how Ed achieves his artfully disheveled hairstyle.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/MG24\/Getty Images for The Met Museum\/Vogue Ed Sheeran was a surprise face on the red carpet at the Met Gala on May 6, but he says he only ended up attending because he&#8217;s been working on the\u00a0clothing he plans to wear when he releases his next album. In a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/08\/ed-sheeran-says-he-went-to-the-met-gala-as-a-result-of-preparing-for-next-album\/\">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\/117674"}],"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=117674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}