Ed Sheeran ‘Loves’ Taylor Swift, Aaron Dessner’s TTPD Work

Ed Sheeran is praising Taylor Swift‘s newest work with producer Aaron Dessner on The Tortured Poets Division and its shock second installment, The Anthology.

“It’s nice! I’ll at all times love the work that she does with Aaron,” Sheeran, 33, advised Further‘s Melvin Roberts in a brand new interview clip printed through X on Friday, Might 3. “It’s a really highly effective album.”

The Nationwide frontman, 48, labored on 17 songs with Swift, 34, for her extremely anticipated eleventh studio album, together with “So Lengthy, London,” “Clara Bow,” “However Daddy I Love Him,” “loml,” “Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus” and “How Did It Finish?” (Swift introduced the discharge of TTPD whereas accepting the award for Finest Pop Vocal Album for Midnights on the 66th annual Grammy Awards in February.)

“We began engaged on these songs over two years in the past and it appears like they’ve stored us firm and advanced in lovely and sudden methods by way of a lot life lived throughout this course of,” Dessner wrote through Instagram after the album’s launch earlier than breaking down their historical past collectively.

“It’s exhausting to imagine Taylor and I’ve now recorded over 60 songs collectively (17 throughout this anthology!!) within the 4 years since we started working collectively on Folklore in 2020,” he continued. “I’m ceaselessly grateful to Taylor for sharing her insane abilities with and trusting me along with her music. I imagine these songs are a number of the most lyrically acute, intricate, weak and cathartic Taylor has ever written and I’m regularly astonished by her expertise as a songwriter and performer.”

Along with working with Dessner on Swift’s most up-to-date album, the 14-time Grammy Award winner’s longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff additionally wrote and produced the album with the duo.

“My favourite work we have now made collectively / made in probably the most wild unhinged second,” Antonoff wrote through Instagram when TTPD was launched in April. “All of the ache distilled on this album and all of the laughter that got here out of it. Will maintain these days within the studio ceaselessly as probably the most inspiring of my life. I am keen on this album and the best way it got here collectively. TTPD FOREVER.”

That is removed from the primary time the all-star trio of musicians have labored collectively. Dessner and Antonoff, 40, beforehand collaborated with Swift on Folklore, Evermore, Fearless (Taylor’s Model), Purple (Taylor’s Model) and Midnights, profitable a Grammy Award for Album of the Yr in 2021 for Folklore.

“And @taylorswift, from 1989 to right here … goddamn. You’re the one who let me produce data first,” Antonoff wrote through Instagram after the ceremony. “Earlier than you I simply ‘wasn’t a producer,’ in response to the herbs. I simply wasn’t let in that room. Then I met you, we made ‘Out of the Woods’ and also you mentioned, ‘That’s the model’ and that modified my life proper there.”