Review Of Ed Sheeran's Song 'Thinking Out Loud'

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Ed Sheeran, a famous singer-songwriter, has made several pop songs and, a couple of them are "Shape of You" and "Thinking Out Loud". In both of these songs he sings about love, but he sings about love in different ways. In "Shape of You" he sings about the physical love, and in "Thinking Out Loud" he sings about the abstract love. By looking at theme, scenery, movement, and beat, an argument can be made that Ed Sheeran song "Shape of You" is more intense, exciting and energetic then his song "Thinking Out Loud".
The theme of "Shape of You" is physical love and this helps the song be more intense. Ed shows this by speaking about how he is in love with her body. He does this by also singing "Grab on my waist and put that body on me" (Sheeran
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The scenery is a bright, cheerful ball room, it starts of a little dark then leads into a bright scene, and stays bright. Although the ball room has lights, Christmas trees, and is painted a unique gold. The ball room is more soothing, and clam than it is exciting. Another difference in both "Thinking Out Loud" and "Shape of You" there is all sorts of different kinds of movement.
In "Shape of You" Ed does boxing, and this help it be more energetic. Ed also starts of in club where everyone is dancing, then goes to boxing and working out. It jumps back in forth between boxing, working out, and fights. This help by keep once again keeping the watchers and listeners on their feet. This also helps by making it more upbeat and the listeners want to dance to it. The difference in "Thinking Out Loud" movement is it more dancing and "Shape Of You" more fighting.
"Thinking Out Loud" is little less energetic, due to the slowness of the movement. In this video Ed and a girl dances throughout the whole video. In "Shape of You" it is faster movement, when in "Thinking Out Loud" is slower to help go with the slower beat. Dancing does take energy to do, but how slow their dancing and how slow the beat is, it is more of one of those songs that you listen to then dance to. One the similarities between the two video is that Ed ends up on the ground at end of each of the

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