{"id":27774,"date":"2021-06-25T19:21:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T19:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=27774"},"modified":"2021-06-25T19:21:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T19:21:35","slug":"ed-sheeran-glam-vampire","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ed-sheeran-glam-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Is A Glam Rock Vampire Now\u2026But Is It Sexy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27775\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27775\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/edsheeran.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Sheeran (Image: courtesy of EdSheeran.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/courteney-cox-ed-sheeran-elton-john-song\/\">Ed Sheeran<\/a> has a new look. For weeks now, the usually scruffy bespectacled singer has been teasing his new song, \u201cBad Habits,\u201d on social media, with images of himself, clean shaven and tarted up like a glam rock vampire, complete with prominent fangs. He was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/new-music-from-ed-sheeran-could-be-on-the-way-after-hes-spotted-filming-in-london-2926964\" target=\"_blank\">spotted<\/a> sporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/doja-cat-david-bowie\/\">Bowie<\/a>-by-way-of-Edward-from-<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/midnight-sun-twilight-comback\/\"><em>Twilight<\/em><\/a> get-up back in April, while filming the \u201cBad Habits\u201d video in London.<\/p>\n<p>Though details are scarce, this would all seem to suggest the beginning of a new phase for Sheeran, possibly an imminent new concept album on which he adopts a new persona a la Ziggy Stardust or <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/beyonces-best-female-empowering-songs-of-all-time\/\">Sasha Fierce<\/a> along with a new sound. But with today\u2019s release of the new single and video, it\u2019s time we addressed the <em>most<\/em> pressing question surrounding this new incarnation of Ed Sheeran: is it <em>sexy?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits [Official Video]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orJSJGHjBLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sheeran\u2019s typical style is pretty unassuming. He\u2019s generally a bit of a flannel-favoring everyman. He usually looks like the lovable, acoustic guitar strumming layabout whose girlfriend dreams of a visit from the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/the-weeknd-super-bowl-karamo-brown\/\"><em>Queer Eye<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/antoni-porowski-j-brand-antoni-collection-interview\/\">guys<\/a>. And, look, there is for sure a certain appeal to that approachable soft boy aesthetic. Like, you can\u2019t take him anywhere, but he sure is nice to come home to.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what makes this recent transformation so startling. Gone are Sheeran\u2019s perpetually wispy beard and goofy glasses. The artfully tousled ginger mop has been shellacked into a jagged fright wig. He\u2019s replaced the flannel with a sharply tailored suit in a bold shade of Pepto pink. And that\u2019s not the only nod toward glammed-up androgyny. Ziggy Sheeran rocks smokey eye makeup and pink glitter and some impressively claw-like green lacquered nails.<\/p>\n<p>And the whole thing kinda works! In the Dave Meyers directed video for \u201cBad Habits,\u201d Sheeran, bless him, is doing a decent impression of a dandy with a bold sense of style. Until he opens his mouth. I don\u2019t mean to sing\u2014he sounds great on the EDM-infused bop. No, I\u2019m talking about the fangs.<\/p>\n<p>God. The fangs. Here\u2019s the thing: sexy vampire is hard to pull off. The slightest miscalculation, the merest misstep can tip you over into mall-goth territory on the one hand or camp schlock in the other. A sexy vampire has to be chic as f*ck, which requires a certain amount of subtlety. And the glitter and color story, impressive though it may be, is kind of working against that here. Obviously, Sheeran\u2019s trying for something here, and he\u2019s mostly pulling it off. But the teeth feel like the proverbial last thing you put on that you really need to take off before you leave the house.<\/p>\n<p>So, glam rock vampire Ed Sheeran? Pretty sexy. Seven out of 10. There. 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