Ed Sheeran Says Bieber’s ‘Love Yourself’ ‘wouldn’t have made it’ onto his new album

Given his recent foray into X Factor Christmas single writing, the fact that Ed Sheeran is a prolific songwriter should come as no surprise. But turns out even Sheeran himself can’t keep up with the tunes he churns out after revealing that he forgot that he had written ‘Cold Water’, Bieber’s hit with Major Lazer and MØ, saying:

“‘Cold Water’ was a weird one because I didn’t even know that song existed. It was a song I must’ve half-written somewhere at a time where I was writing a lot of songs and I did it at Benny Blanco’s house and then I got an email from Diplo just being like, ‘Yo! That ‘Cold Water’ song is dope! Can I have it?’ And I was like, ‘I have no idea what you’re talking about,’ so I just didn’t reply.”



“And then he emailed and was like, ‘Yo, Justin [Bieber] wants to hop on the ‘Cold Water’ song. Is that cool?’ And I’m just like, ‘What are you talking about?’… And then the song came out and it was number one and I was like ‘Oh, that song!’ I remember doing it, but it was really, really slow. I remember hearing it and being like ‘That kind of sounds like me. Oh wait, it was me.'”



He also said in a Tuesday interview with Carson Daly on 97.1 AMP Radio, that he gave monster hit ‘Love Yourself’ to Justin Bieber because it “wouldn’t have made it” onto his new album, but that Justin ‘did his thing on it’ and transformed it into a chart-topper. “So, going from a song that would have never been released to – it was the biggest song of last year, it just became Billboard number 1 of 2016 of the whole year, and be nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammys…it just shows you that you shouldn’t always write stuff off,” he added.

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