UnNews:Is Ed Sheeran the next Drake?
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
SOMEWHERE IN IRAN - Recent allegations have come up regarding the newest single from British "singer-songwriter" and music terrorist Ed Sheeran, "Everyone's Leaving" from his up and coming album Denial, Again, which is expected to come out in September of this year.
The song contains influences from Iran of all places. Apparently, one of the producers who have produced the single is Persian, and there have been some Iranian instruments involved. However, if you listen closely, you can hear that Ed is singing in a fake Iranian accent. In the Persian version of said song, he mispronounces a lot of words in that language, even with having another Persian artist involved. Critics have also compared "Everyone's Leaving" to "Girl From Galway", except with Persian influences.
This has people comparing "Everyone's Leaving" to every "cultural" song that Drake has done. Both use fake accents in their songs and use generic instrumentals to cash in on to that culture. Ed's case has been Iranian culture (and soon, Indian culture in an upcoming single to be released in June) while Drake has dabbled in many cultures, such as African, Caribbean, British and more cultures that Drake has appropriated in his songs.
However, the only difference is that Ed does things differently than Drake does. Ed might be Bat Fuck Insane at times, but he isn't that much compared to Drake, who has broken the Bat Fuck Insane-O-Meter by a lot. It got to the point where Drake is the subject of jokes, like "Drake the type of guy to have an alter ego. "
Even the single cover has nothing to do with Iranian culture, and offended the entirety of the Iranian population as a whole. So, to answer this question, Ed is slowly becoming the British Drake by using the power of cultural appropriation.
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- Alexis Pedritis "Ed Sheeran: Azizam review – a cross-cultural Persian experiment … which sounds incredibly English" The Guardian, April 4, 2025