{"id":34770,"date":"2023-05-17T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=34770"},"modified":"2023-05-17T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:45:05","slug":"pop-star-ed-sheeran-wants-to-transition-to-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/05\/pop-star-ed-sheeran-wants-to-transition-to-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Star Ed Sheeran Wants To &#8220;Transition&#8221; To Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop singer Ed Sheeran, who recently performed solo and with Luke Combs at the ACM Awards, is thinking about giving country music a shot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/ed-sheehan-transition-into-country-copyright-verdict-interview-1235327159\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In an interview with &#8220;Billboard&#8221; during ACM rehearsals he said&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;I talk about this to my wife all the time. I would love to transition to country. I love the culture of it . . . I just love the songwriting. It&#8217;s just like brilliant songs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ed has some experience in Music City, he lived in Nashville two different times and soaked in a lot while touring with Taylor Swift during her country years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like a community. There&#8217;s not a place in Europe where you could point and say, &#8216;That&#8217;s the home of songwriting.&#8217; Nashville is a hub of incredible songwriters, incredible performers. I really feel inspired being around everyone.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ed Sheeran brought in Luke Combs for a new version of his song &#8220;Life Goes On&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2tZjT3L1wD4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop singer Ed Sheeran, who recently performed solo and with Luke Combs at the ACM Awards, is thinking about giving country music a shot.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[467,266,4708,101],"class_list":["post-34770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-acm-awards","tag-ed-sheeran","tag-life-goes-on","tag-luke-combs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:24:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/05\/pop-star-ed-sheeran-wants-to-transition-to-country\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34772,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34770\/revisions\/34772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}