2022 is een heel productief jaar van Ed Sheeran. Hij bracht o.a. ‘The joker and the queen’ uit met Taylor Swift, ‘2Step’ met Lil Baby, maar vooral ‘Bam bam’ met Camila Cabello was een superhit. Op 29 september lanceert de sympathieke zanger zijn allernieuwste zelfgeschreven single: ‘Celestial’. Voor het nummer werkte Sheeran samen met Pokémon. De singer-songwriter herinnert zich: “I started off with Pokémon cards when the craze hit primary school when I was about 7, then the tv show was on tv so I used to try and record it over the same VHS every week. After this me and my brother shared a game boy and Pokémon blue. I got a game boy colour with Pokémon yellow for my 8th birthday, obsessed was an understatement.”
Hij vervolgt: “Flash forward to me at 31 I still have the same game boy colour and still I play Pokémon silver on long haul flights. I really really love it. It gave me a proper escape as a kid into a fantasy world that seemed to go on and on, and in adult life it’s nostalgia that makes me feel like a kid again. I met the people from Pokémon when I was travelling in Japan, and we joked about me writing a song for them. But now here we are. Celestial comes out next Thursday, and the video is insanely amazing, animated by the incredible people at Pokémon.”
