{"id":94950,"date":"2024-05-04T17:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/ed-sheeran-reveals-why-he-gave-away-his-love-yourself-hit-to-justin-bieber\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T17:11:42","slug":"ed-sheeran-reveals-why-he-gave-away-his-love-yourself-hit-to-justin-bieber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/04\/ed-sheeran-reveals-why-he-gave-away-his-love-yourself-hit-to-justin-bieber\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran reveals why he gave away his &apos;Love Yourself&apos; hit to Justin Bieber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-05-04\" datetime=\"1714842702\" pubdate=\"\">4 May 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ed Sheeran gave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/justin-bieber\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,justin-bieber\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Bieber<\/a> his \u2018Love Yourself\u2019 hit because his friends dismissed it as \u201cMeh\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Ed Sheeran gave Justin Bieber his \u2018Love Yourself\u2019 hit because his friends dismissed it as \u2018Meh\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018I Don\u2019t Care\u2019 singer, 33, joked about how the song then went on to be a massive, history making chart-topper for his pal Justin, 30, while talking to fans in a break between songs at his concert at Hard Rock Live in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>He said before playing his rendition of the track: \u201cThis is a song when I was writing \u2018Divide\u2019 \u2013 I was writing a lot of songs about a lot of different things, and I wrote this song and honestly, I played it to people and they went, \u2018Meh\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ed added he then played it for Justin who told him he wanted it, saying: \u201cI went, \u2018Cool, have it\u2019, and then it got very big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justin\u2019s take on \u2018Love Yourself\u201d topped the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart in 2016, making him the youngest artist to have a No1 single in the rankings in the publication\u2019s history. <\/p>\n<p>\nEd added it\u2019s success prompted his friends to ask why he would give it away in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said he told them: \u201cYou told me it wasn\u2019t good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nEven though the song is associated with Justin, Ed\u2019s songwriting credits allow him to play it at gigs.<\/p>\n<p>\nEd told the story during a gig on Friday (03.05.24), and he\u2019s also due to perform on Saturday as part of Hard Rock Beach Club\u2019s Formula 1 line-up ahead of the qualifying session race. <\/p>\n<p>\nOther entertainers at the show include Don Omar, Kaskade and Cedric Gervais.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix takes place this Sunday, with Marc Anthony set to sing the National Anthem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sheeran-reveals-gave-away-love-hit-justin-bieber-1399061.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 May 2024 Ed Sheeran gave Justin Bieber his \u2018Love Yourself\u2019 hit because his friends dismissed it as \u201cMeh\u201d. Ed Sheeran gave Justin Bieber his \u2018Love Yourself\u2019 hit because his friends dismissed it as \u2018Meh\u2019 The \u2018I Don\u2019t Care\u2019 singer, 33, joked about how the song then went on to be a massive, history making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7816,7814,520,60,7815,903],"class_list":{"0":"post-94950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-cedric-gervais","9":"tag-don-omar","10":"tag-ed-sheeran","11":"tag-justin-bieber","12":"tag-kaskade","13":"tag-marc-anthony"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}