{"id":170079,"date":"2025-09-26T09:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170079\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:38:12","slug":"ed-sheeran-reveals-camera-was-nearly-a-justin-bieber-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170079\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Reveals ‘Camera’ Was Nearly a Justin Bieber Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSomewhere on Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u2018s computer, there\u2019s a version of \u201cCamera\u201d\u00a0featuring vocals from Justin Bieber<\/a>. In a new interview with SiriusXM, Sheeran revealed that he had made a version of the Play standout \u201cCamera\u201d as a duet with Bieber for his last album, Justice \u2014 but it never came out.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wrote it for = and then it ended up being a duet with Justin Bieber for Justice, and then it never materialized. I\u2019ve got a version with Justin on it,\u201d Sheeran revealed. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty cool, but it just exists in the ether. Now it\u2019s out. I think people like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bieber-Sheeran linkup would\u2019ve lined up with the times the two worked together in the past. The pair released a duet titled \u201cI Don\u2019t Care\u201d <\/a>back in 2019, two years before Justice\u2018s release. They also co-wrote \u201cLove Yourself\u201d from Bieber\u2019s Purpose era in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCamera\u201d is now on Play, which dropped on Sept. 12. In his SiriusXM interview, Sheeran said he had written the song about how \u201cmost of the best moments of life were never caught on camera,\u201d and how the human mind latches on to memories that didn\u2019t have a photo taken.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I was 11, I remember playing my first show and thinking that I was rocking out to 40,000 people and it was amazing,\u201d Sheeran explained. \u201cHad someone filmed that on a camera phone, it takes the magic away\u2026 I think sometimes when things aren\u2019t caught on camera, like I remember my proposal to my wife in a very specific way. \u201c<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cIt might have actually been completely different if someone had filmed it. I do think that cameras and videoing things sometimes take the magic away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast week, Sheeran announced that he\u2019ll head on his Loop Tour<\/a> in North America next year, hitting stadiums across the country. The album will celebrate Play, which includes the singles \u201cAzizam,\u201d \u201cOld Phone,\u201d and \u201cSapphire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe most interesting moments on Play are the cross-cultural, experimental songs that find Sheeran hitting a new pop wave,\u201d read a\u00a0Rolling Stone<\/a> review of the record. \u201cOverall, despite some of its nods to a more global sound, Play is a lot more of the same radio-tailored singer-songwriter music that has become Sheeran\u2019s signature in his 15-year career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFor his part, Bieber is riding the wave of his pair of Swag albums and his recent announcement as headliner for Coachella 2026. \u201cBetween headlining\u00a0Coachella<\/a>\u00a0and the success of\u00a0Swag, it\u2019s clear this is the start of an exciting new era for Justin \u2014 one where he\u2019s fully in the driver\u2019s seat,\u201d a source previously told Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somewhere on Ed Sheeran\u2018s computer, there\u2019s a version of \u201cCamera\u201d\u00a0featuring vocals from Justin Bieber. In a new interview…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,14661,134,11596,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-170079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ed-sheeran","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-justin-bieber","13":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}