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Eric R. Danton is a contributor to RollingStone.com. He also writes about music and pop culture for The Wall Street Journal, Salon, M Music & Musicians, Diffuser.fm and ListenDammit.com. His work has appeared in \u201CSchools That Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide\u201D and American Songwriter, as well as the bygone publications Spinner.com, No Depression, Performing Songwriter and Ironminds.com. He appears every Wednesday on the Best New Song of the Week segment on WRSI-FM in Northampton, Mass., and occasionally on The Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR-FM in Hartford. He was rock critic at the Hartford Courant in Connecticut from 2002-2012.
Because "God's Plan" by Drake remains in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, this week let's consider "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran. The track hit the top of the chart in December, and has been lurking in the No. 2 slot for a few weeks now. The song is the fourth single from Sheeran's most recent album, last year's gazillion-selling "."
Pitchfork gave the album, Sheeran's third, an anemic 2.8 rating. That would ordinarily strike me as standard hipper-than-thou bullshit, except that "Perfect" is pure schlock, on the order of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful." As it happens, Sheeran has said he was inspired to write the song after visiting Blunt, which is so perfectly, horribly symmetrical that you couldn't possibly make it up.
Somehow he talked Beyonc into a duet version, and Andrea Bocelli into a symphonic rendition, neither of which improves measurably on the one Sheeran recorded for the album, though they've probably added at least one zero to the royalty checks he's getting. Also, this guy plays shows by himself, in stadiums. He has a pair of dates booked at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., Sept. 14-15. Thinking I'll probably sit them out, but have fun if you go.
I've always wanted to sing an arabic song. Gladly I found a perfect song covered by Yassine Jarram. Here's for you Ed Sheeran's Perfect song in Arabic version! Hope you'll love it. Lyrics below:را قلبي بغاك ... يا اللي شغلتي لي بالي ... فكرت فيكقلبي هواك... روحي غير ليك نتييا اللي نبغيك حن عليا... غيرك مابغيت خليني معاك. يا اللي قلبي هواك باغي نكون ديما حداكفينما رحتي حبييبي... ديني معاكفراقك لا مابغيتو... والماضي خاليتوليام زينة تكون ..معاك حبيبي يا...يا احلى ملاك خليني نطير فسماك...شحال و انا نتسناكفينما كنتي تانا غادي نكون ...كل صباح نفيق حداك تال اخر يوم معاك نغنييا حياتي كلشي بغيتو فحياتي .شفتو معاكو لقيتها صافي ...من بين الناس ختاريتلي تربي ولادي و معاك تمنيت نعيش نجمة بين يدي ...نبدا معاك و معاك نكملنعطيك سميتي و تكوني حلالي و الحب يدووم.خليني معاك يا اللي قلبي هواكباغي نكون ديما حداكفينما رحتي يا حبيبي...ديني معاكفراقك لا مابغيتو ...والماضي خليتو ليام الزينة تكون معاكحبيبي يا ...يا أحلى ملاكخليني نطير فسماك...شحال و أنا نتسناك فينما كنتي تأنا غادي نكون غادي نكون ليك غير نتيتال آخر يوم معاك نغنييا حياتي كلشي بغيتو فحياتي شفتو معاك--------كووني حياتي لي بغيتو فحياتي شفتو معاك
Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" is still going strong on the Billboard Hot 100, and now its longevity has given the GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter yet another record-breaking moment he can boast about.
"Perfect" has been on the chart for a year, becoming the 61st hit to have done so. But Sheeran is no newbie to this feat. "Thinking Out Loud" stayed on the charts for 58 weeks between Oct. 2014 and Nov. 2015 and "Shape Of You" had a 59 week run on the Hot 100 from Jan. 2017 to March 2018. Now, "Perfect" has made him the first solo artist to have had three different songs stay on the Hot 100 for a year each.
GRAMMY winners Faith Hill, Bruno Mars, The Chainsmokers and Train, along with Lifehouse, have been close to making the milestone, each having had two songs on the chart for at least one year each. Imagine Dragons are they only artist ahead of Sheeran, making him the only solo artist to accomplish such a feat, to have three songs last on the charts for at least a year.
Beloved by fans around the globe, yet increasingly unaffordable for many artists, concert tours are central to the world of entertainment and local economies. After the pandemic-era global shuttering of concert venues large and small, tours are back, and bigger than ever.
Against that backdrop, heightened concerns about the global environmental cost of concert touring have led a number of prominent artists to launch initiatives. Those efforts seek both to mitigate the negative effects of touring and communicate messages about sustainability to concertgoers.
No serious discussion of climate issues suggests a worldwide halt to live music touring, but there exists much room for improvement. Both on their own and with the help of dedicated nonprofit organizations, many artists are taking positive steps toward mitigating the deleterious effects that touring exerts upon the environment.
The ESI collaborates with industry heavyweights Live Nation, Warner Music Group and others as well with touring/recording acts like Coldplay to examine the carbon footprint of the music industry. A key component of the ESI is the Climate Machine, a collaborative research group that seeks to help the live music industry reduce carbon emissions. "As a research institution, we bring technologies and analytics to understand, in the best way possible, the actual impact of the music industry upon climate change," says John Fernndez, Director of the ESI.
Guitarist Adam Gardner is a founding member of Massachusetts-based indie rockers Guster, but he's more than just a singer in a rock band. Gardner is also the co-founder of REVERB, one of the organizations at the forefront of developing and implementing climate-focused sustainability initiatives.
Founded in 2004 by Gardner and his wife, environmental activist Lauren Sullivan, REVERB began with a goal of making touring more sustainable; over the years its focus has expanded to promote industry-wide changes. Today, the organization promotes sustainability throughout the industry in partnership with music artists, concert venues and festivals.
REVERB initiatives have included efforts to eliminate single-use plastics at the California Roots Music & Arts Festival, clean energy projects in cooperation with Willie Nelson and Billie Eilish, and efforts with other major artists. Gardner has seen sustainability efforts grow over two decades
Watt acknowledges that like every concertgoer, each touring artist has a certain level of responsibility where sustainability is concerned. "And everyone can be doing something," he says, noting a number of straightforward actions that artists can put in place while on tour. "They can eliminate single-use waste. They can donate hotel toiletries that [would otherwise] hit the landfill."
Four-time GRAMMY winner Brittany Howard is another passionate REVERB partner. "Knowing that I wanted to make my tours more sustainable was a start," she tells GRAMMY.com, "but working with REVERB really helped me bring it to life on the road. REVERB has helped us with guidelines and a green rider to keep our stage, greenrooms and buses more sustainable."
Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Met does more than front AJR, the indie pop trio he founded in 2005 with brothers Jack and Ryan. Met has a PhD in sustainable development and is a climate activist; he's also the founder/Executive Director of Planet Reimagined, a nonprofit that promotes sustainability and activism through its work with businesses, other organizations and musicians.
As the Backstreet Boys celebrate the 25th anniversary of "I Want It That Way," take a look at how the song has been diversely covered, lovingly lampooned and karaoke jammed by an array of voices in the business.
When the king of parody songs selects one to skewer, you know it's an iconic song. Weird Al Yankovic paid tribute to the largeness of the Backstreet Boys classic when he used "I Want It That Way" as the basis of a song called "eBay" in 2003.
Yankovic's chorus replaces the original's with, "A used pink bathrobe/ A rare mint snow globe/ A Smurf TV tray/ I bought on eBay." The Backstreet Boys send up appears on Yankovic's album Poodle Hat, which won Best Comedy Album at the 2004 GRAMMYs.
The lead singers of Alabama Shakes and My Morning Jacket covering a boy band classic. It doesn't sound real, but Brittany Howard and Jim James did just that in 2016 when they recorded "I Want It That Way" for an animated short cartoon called "A Love Story."
Released by the fast food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, the clip was part of a creative campaign to showcase the company's focus on natural ingredients. Howard and James highlight the poignancy and versatility of the song by adding lush string arrangements and dramatic beats.
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