Drunk (Ed Sheeran song)

February 17, 2012

Drunk (English for drunk) is a song by British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It is included on his album , and was first published on 17 February 2012. Music and lyrics are from Jake Gosling ( also the sole producer of the song ) and Sheeran. The lyrics are about a relationship Sheerans that is terminated because he does not want to change. That's why he sees drinking as the only way to get over it. Remixes were made among others by Doctor P, Basto (under the name Lazy Jay ) and Rudimental.

Music Video

Two music videos were produced: an unofficial, cut together and produced by Murray Cummings, which mainly contains excerpts from videos of his performances, and the official. This was filmed by Sheeran itself. Even his girlfriend Nina Nesbitt appearances in the video. At the beginning of the video you can see him as he comes home, sits down beside his cat and opens a can of beer. The cat talks to him. Sheeran looks at his cell phone in which he wrote his friend, " I do not want to see you anymore". Him his cat tells him to forget it. He goes to a party and gets drunk on there. His cat is with him. He is thrown her out of the club, celebrating with another woman and the cat but at home on. At the end of the video you can see him, his cat, and the beer can in the same situation as at the beginning of the video. Both videos were published on 20 January 2012 Sheerans official YouTube channel.

Reception

Charts

The song reached number nine of the Australian charts, number seven in Ireland, number 23 in New Zealand, number 13 in Scotland, number 43 in Slovakia and ninth place in the British charts. In Australia and New Zealand we remained ten in United Kingdom 16 weeks in the charts.

Criticism

Drunk got mixed reviews. Dara Hickey on Unreality Shout forgave example, only while said Robert Copsey from Digital Spy that Sheeran had found a way to produce songs with text in which it comes to women with fun, what would that prove music video. He forgave.