{"id":137886,"date":"2025-09-12T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137886\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T05:45:07","slug":"ed-sheerans-cross-cultural-album-play-can-the-pop-star-reclaim-his-crown-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137886\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran&#039;s cross-cultural album Play: Can the pop star reclaim his crown? &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE82UjhRbUViQTRBU0pYYzdxTko3MmtPNF8wR1M4ZmN5SmRiNGp1UTZWcFNxYmtKTWRpdlU1THdEZEVuLWs3a3ZRdEhQcDctT0tha2xhQlBRRjlTUdIBX0FVX3lxTE5WVm1fSGtpWjNteTQ4M3I5bUhvT3ppQUtJTG9Ebmlzd3dCWUNEcTdFU2U0cTNzZWR0THJmZlpwMUZmLTFpUU5zaUtKVGNMT0tycHpoT0VEZTF3ZVA3VE5n?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ed Sheeran&#8217;s cross-cultural album Play: Can the pop star reclaim his crown?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMid0FVX3lxTE10MmRlV0cydnFrcExhSHRtNDJUR1hfMHFPUTBRUVVrZzJIZHY1Xy1YZTVsMkI5bEdaaTNoWmZXenYwUXRlQmM2S3dteW9tcXRGYU8xeUVYWE9RT1ItZGxWQU85cWd3U0dqRHlzeHpJcFBucnBIU3NJ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ed Sheeran: Play review \u2013 subcontinental sounds and shards of darkness \u2013 but still unmistakably him<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Guardian<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi_AFBVV95cUxOcmZGc2hCa1I5cUQ0RGJMeWMtOUhkZHpyWGZfdldPRHJGWUt0a0dHSU02YXJuSTFYWmZLd0NwQ05ESFJoSzlWelFQUXozbFNOOXBaN1A4YVB3MTVwNVNURnFsZS1fNnBQVV85d1hzdVBLWjhhbE5TbUVSNldFV0czUlRPM1E5cDh6NU1uSGI1OTZlX1R4bE1CVWtvdGVBRGxqWlltaUhMSkVwQlI2LW5QNGp2Q3B5YUN0RXFRM1BVRWVKQzdkTXYyZUdTWUwwRkZ2T1F4OEZHZUlNZzZ4Nk5yNTJjQnA4YTR3Q1JOVVg2aUhtaUx3NzBMUlZOOGo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Music Review: Ed Sheeran returns to his roots on \u2018Play,\u2019 a cross-cultural playground<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Spec<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMigAFBVV95cUxObTduQXFrbnQ4dkctdTd1RDZSRlE2cnJWWDhFQmd4VTVQNEdMa0JuUjNoZUJGYlFadTBtTFVXVGdETTFWVXdMbWRqbUxDSGZxTGZoQVlFcTFmS28wLS1Nb0RCS3ZHcHdOY0d2Skk0bEF6b1Y1UnJvRzdIanN0ZHh3Mg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ed Sheeran is the emotional caretaker you need right now on &#8216;Play&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahoo News Canada<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxPeF9TbzcxdXdpUmUxYVJqQXptUGFkMmVpakU2WWxBdjBjSU5FYkd0Q0ltRUswWmY3cXZHYlZOUFBOS1lGS014cUxramhBTURTMFVzUEJ4am5KNUdTNzJNLXRKRy1KTHM3U205VVN6UndtbjBxUHJnaGtTZlJDSUJicmQzNmRYVVFybklCRHJILXhiUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ed Sheeran to release eighth studio album<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;France 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran&#8217;s cross-cultural album Play: Can the pop star reclaim his crown?&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCEd Sheeran: Play review \u2013 subcontinental sounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-137886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}