Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran: Inside the decade long friendship

Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have been mates for over a decade. 

All through that point their friendship has solely strengthened and has seen them collaborate on music collectively, carry out at one another’s reveals, and attend glamorous awards reveals collectively.

Final night time (this morning AEST) Swift shocked her followers by bringing her longtime good friend and collaborator on stage throughout her Eras Tour present in London.

Watch the video above.

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Ed Sheeran joins Taylor Swift on stage in London throughout her Eras Tour present on August 15, 2024 (Twitter)

After the pair carried out a mashup of Swift’s songs All the pieces Has Modified and Endgame (each of which Sheeran featured on) and Sheeran’s well-known hit Pondering Out Loud, Swift took a second to thank her good friend for becoming a member of her on stage. 

“This is one of my best friends in the world to the point where I feel like he’s a second brother of mine,” she mentioned as she pulled her fellow celebrity musician right into a hug.

“He’s probably so tired but he wanted to come and play for you and do this for all of us so give it up for Ed Sheeran,” she concluded as the crowd roared with cheers and applause.

This efficiency was the newest of loads of candy moments that the duo have shared since they first met and turned mates over a decade in the past.

Here’s a look inside their candy friendship.

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Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran carry out onstage at Wembley Stadium. (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Photos f)

A budding friendship

Each big-time musicians who’ve gone on to realize mammoth success in the music trade, it appears solely becoming that Swift and Sheeran’s friendship bloomed after working collectively.

The pair first related in 2012 to pen their collaboration music All the pieces Has Modified which featured on Swift’s Purple album. 

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Sheeran has admitted that he did not anticipate her to be good earlier than they met. (Getty)

Regardless of their friendship rapidly blossoming after they met, Sheeran has admitted that he was shocked to learn the way good she was. 

“I expected her to be one of these artists who is allowed to have a douchebag pass but she was the loveliest person I’ve met,” he mentioned of their first assembly, per Gigwise.

First efficiency collectively

By December of that yr, Sheeran and Swift took to the stage for his or her first reside efficiency collectively. 

The duo shone on stage at New York Metropolis’s Z100’s Jingle Ball held at Madison Sq. Backyard.

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Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran carry out onstage throughout Z100’s Jingle Ball 2012. (Getty)

Ed joins Purple

Their efficiency at Madison Sq. Backyard acted as an ideal dry-run, as quickly after Sheeran joined Swift on tour for her Purple album all through 2013.

Sheeran performed as the opening act for many of Swift’s North American leg of the tour.

Whereas he did not proceed along with her as she took the tour worldwide, he did be part of her once more on stage when she carried out in London. 

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Swift joined Sheeran as a shock visitor throughout his present in Madison Sq. Backyard in 2013. (YouTube/ @alanis713)

Throughout his latest look for her Eras Tour present, Swift recalled the time they spent touring along with fondness.

“We toured together on the Red tour. Every time I am doing the Red part of this show I think about the memories that we made and now he is someone who plays Wembley like every week,” she mentioned to the crowd with pleasure. 

In direction of the finish of that very same yr, Swift returned the favour to Sheeran, becoming a member of him on stage at Madison Sq. Backyard to play their music All the pieces Has Modified.

She went all out for the event even selecting to put on an ‘I Coronary heart Ed’ shirt matching his ‘I Coronary heart NY’ shirt.

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Collaborations

Outdoors of performing collectively, the pair have additionally collaborated collectively on some musical initiatives.

Their first collaboration was All the pieces Has Modified, adopted by Finish Sport, which featured on Swift’s Repute album. Sheeran cowrote the music along with her and even appeared in it is official music video. 

In 2021, Sheeran labored with Swift once more as she rerecorded all of her music after shedding the rights to her masters. He featured on the redo of All the pieces Has Modified and a brand new music Run on the Purple (Taylor’s Model) album.

Regardless of solely releasing it for her re-recorded album, Run is a music that the pair wrote again in the early days of their friendship.

“Run is the first song me and @taylorswift ever wrote together, and Everything Has Changed was the second,” Sheeran revealed on Instagram back in 2021. 

“We re-recorded both of them for Red (Taylor’s Version) which is out today and they are just great. So fun getting to revisit these again.”

Swift additionally labored with Sheeran on his music The Joker & The Queen which was launched in 2021. 

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Award reveals

Throughout the years of their friendship each Swift and Sheeran have achieved mammoth success with loads of platinum information and awards between them.

However there would not appear to be an oz of rivalry between the pair, who’ve been seen publicly supporting one another’s wins.

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Taylor Swift and a good friend, Ed Sheeran and Harry Kinds photographed at a VMAs after-party. (Twitter)

In 2015, when she received her first Brit Award for Finest Worldwide Feminine Artist, Swift shouted out her expensive good friend Sheeran.

“Honestly, I know I wouldn’t be up here if it wasn’t for one of my best friends, who took me to pubs and taught me how to make a good cup of tea and taught me everything I know about the UK,” she said during her acceptance speech.

“I just want to say I love you, Ed Sheeran.”

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Throughout her 2015 Brit Award acceptance speech, Swift shouted out her expensive good friend Sheeran. (Getty)

Sheeran opens up about their bond

Swift just isn’t alone in her sentiments, simply final yr Sheeran opened up about his friendship with the Fortnight singer.

“I have long, long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff just because I feel like she’s one of the only people that actually truly understands where I’m at,” Sheeran informed Zane Lowe on his podcast The Zane Lowe Show revealing that the pair had solely simply caught up earlier than the interview. 

Sheeran final yr opened up about his bond with Swift likening it to “therapy”. (Getty pictures)

“We were just — everything that was on our minds we talked about, I mean that in itself is kind of therapy as well because you’re actually talking to someone that genuinely gets it,” he defined.

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Sheeran in his Eras Tour period

Sheeran’s latest look at Swift’s Eras Tour present in London looks like a full circle second for the duo. 

When followers clocked on that Sheeran can be becoming a member of Swift for her acoustic set, they erupted into screams of pleasure. 

It is a friendship that their followers appear to cherish as a lot as they do and its one which we will solely hope that lasts for a lot of a long time to come back as they proceed to make strikes in the music trade.

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