Why Ed Sheeran is both right and wrong to say ‘most pop songs fit over most other pop songs’

Pop music does have a set of 'building blocks', and many songs sound alike - but some of the best, from Queen to Lorde, break the mould

’s at it again. No, not singing his little songs about how he loves you very much, or making a rather too straight-laced cameo in a movie, or insisting on doing an entire headline festival set with only his loop pedal, for the sake of “authenticity”.

He admitted that he changed an earlier version of the song having realised it was “a bit too close” to Blackstreet’s “No Diggity”. And then he was sued by the grime artist Sami Chokri, who said the “Oh I” refrain in the song was strikingly similar to his song “Oh Why”. Chokri lost the case last year and ended up with a $1.

Sheeran, who has written some of the biggest, and catchiest, pop songs of the past 10 years, is understandably a big fan of the sequence – presumably because it works. His breakthrough 2010 song “The A Team”, 2018’s Irish folk-infused “Galway Girl” and 2021 Heart FM anthem “Shivers” are all constructed around some version of it.

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