Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "ED SHEERAN - OPENING"

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

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So getting into Ed Scheran's track opening, it's very interesting how I've already broke down the subsidiaries under Ed Scheran as far as promoting his music. But I would say as far as the downward trajectory of his music, I wonder what all of these subsidiaries are doing because it seems like they're not doing enough as far as promoting his music. So here I am to talk about Ed Schern. Now, his album play is out now in all DSPs. If you don't know, as far as him opening up the album, I'm not going to support it. the whole album obviously but it's more of an upbeat track which is it's pretty solid in general because i'm not going to say ed shirn's bag is slower anthems but all i got to say is him making the ultimate wedding anthem is something to be an achievement for the foreseeable future because nobody

can really make an anthem for a specific theme as easy as ed shoring can y'all going to say it's glazing I'm just going to say that Ed Shear is one of the most talented artists I've seen, right? So him opening up this album going away from the slow tempo more of a beat style. It's very interesting. But that's not the only thing because throughout this album, it does have certain love songs in it and danceable type of love songs because he knows his bag, right? And then of course, he has more breakup anthems that's very interesting. He uses a very, I think it's a Hindi chorus, which is very interesting. as far as direction he's trying to take this album and of course ultimately he's promoting this right now

he's showcasing how ed sure is definitely one of the artists to look out for as far as if you want to hear a quality body of work because his last album was basically showing you that he's ready to turn the page as he had a lot of albums as far as the tour collection which had the plus album minus equal division and multiplication all in one collection and safe to say That ended up being a whopping one hour and 34 minutes in 24 tracks in total. So it's safe to say, that's pretty, I'm not going to say short songs, but if you have a collection of all your albums and it comes up to an album in 24 minutes, then that should mean you already know what you're getting from as sure.

It's a short offering, and that's no different with the play album, because the play album, I believe, let me see, the play album, the extended edition. So this is the extended. false you guys it's an hour and one minute so that's very interesting the extended is one hour one minute the original is 44 minutes so i wonder when it comes to this album which way he he will want you to listen to it because both of them released at the same time the way i'm looking at this yeah both of them came out today i don't know why he would release the play and then the play extended edition i guess you know every time somebody says pause maybe that's what he's trying to do

all right my fault you guys y'all can throw you out tomatoes see that's the problem i thought he was trying throw away the whole pause mantra but i guess not so anyways as far as the longer way to play album um he's been putting out singles that we've been covering as far as on this out on this uh platform we cover ed shirn religiously as we covered a little more we cover sapphire as zism um autumn variations back in 2023 so there was a little jump between september 29th 23 to April 11th of this year as far as my coverage of Ed Schurin and that's because I think he was getting ready to go on a whole new journey as he's getting away from a multiplication symbol. So with that being said, now we're going to transition from that track and get into the track

that's currently topping a lot of playlists and that tells me that his subsidiaries and his labels that are helping distribute this is choosing this particular track to be the frontrunner off of the album's release on all DSPs. So let's get into the track camera. right now.