Ed Sheeran Explains Why He Doesn't Want To Perform At The Super Bowl

Despite his massive fame and love for sports, Ed Sheeran has revealed that he’s not interested in following Rihanna’s footsteps and leading a Super Bowl halftime entertainment slot. However, his thought comes with a catch – he’d accept the invite if the opportunity to share the stage presented itself.

“I don’t think anyone wants to see me do the Super Bowl,” Sheeran said in a Sirius XM interview with Andy Cohen when asked if he’d ever consider performing at America’s biggest sports-meets-music event, per Billboard.

Admitting that he’d only take that stage “as a guest”, Sheeran told Cohen that he was in consideration when Coldplay hosted the celebration in February 2016.

“There was a conversation a while ago — I think it was when Coldplay did it — of me going up to play Thinking Out Loud. I think that would be the only way I’d do it is if I was joining someone else,” he said.

Ultimately, though, Sheeran doesn’t think he has what it takes to headline the Super Bowl entertainment slot. “You watch Prince; you watch Michael Jackson; you watch Katy Perry; you watch Lady Gaga; you watch Rihanna; you watch Beyoncé — you watch all these amazing performers. I’m just not that,” he admitted.

“I’m not going to have dancers on stage; I’m not going to have fireworks on stage like The Weeknd. That’s not me.” You can watch Sheeran’s interview below.

The chat arrived with another revelation: that Sheeran was working on another album – the rumoured Autumn? – before – (Subtract) took its place.

NME reports that after recently sharing the cheeky “Autumn is coming” post on Instagram, Sheeran provided a satirical infomercial phone number that was advertising “damper hampers”.

If you call +1 917 909 4498, you will hear a message taking you to Gingerbread Man Records, which teased that new stock would be coming on Thursday, 24 August. Is new music incoming?

“It’s an album about autumn. I kind of have no expectations for it,” Sheeran explained in the Sirius XM interview.

He continued, “I made it whilst — there was the album I was trying to make, and then ‘–’ (‘Subtract’) happened. So I finished over the last year.”

Sheeran dropped his latest album, Subtract, just a few months ago. The album arrived after the hitmaker’s successful court case defending allegations of plagiarism in what was seen as a landmark verdict.