Ed Sheeran And Taylor Swift Are Collaborating Again; Ed Sheeran Confirms That His New Song ‘The Joker And The Queen’ Featuring Taylor Swift Will Be Released On Friday, February 11. Swifties from all over the world are going crazy as Ed Sheeran dropped the bomb news of his new song featuring Taylor Swift. Ed Sheeran announced the news while speaking to LADbible at Brit Awards on February 8.
Ed Sheeran won the award for ‘Songwriter of the Year Honour”. He told that his new single is “comes out on Friday and it’s with Taylor Swift”. He also said, “We’re literally announcing that in, like, an hour”. Fans of both Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are eagerly waiting for Friday so that they can get to see both artists in the new song, “The Joker and The Queen”.
The new single featuring Taylor swift will be a remix version of Ed Sheeran’s song “The Joker and The Queen” which was released on October 29, 2021.
Ed Sheeran And Taylor Swift Are Collaborating Again
Followed by the official announcement of “The Joker and The Queen” featuring Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran posted a snippet of the song on his official Instagram account with the caption, “The Joker and The Queen featuring my good friend Taylor Swift is out this Friday”.
Ever since Ed Sheeran confirmed that the remixed version of “The Joker and The Queen” would feature an American artist during an interview in October, many fans have been speculating that the American artist might be Taylor Swift. But it was never confirmed by both the artists till last Wednesday.
Although the artists didn’t officially confirm collaborating together, both dropped hints of Taylor Swift to be featured in the remix version of “The Joker and The Queen”. Both have been teasing the fans with clues of their new song together. In the song “Overpass Graffiti”, Ed Sheeran wore a joker and queen-themed leather jacket on which there was a tiny box that has Taylor Swift written in it.
Taylor in her promo tour of Red (Taylor’s version) has sold packs of playing cards, which fans now think that might have hinted at the collaboration of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift in “The Joker and The Queen”.
Taylor Swift has been a good friend of Ed Sheeran for years and is one of the favorite artists of Ed Sheeran to collaborate with. This is not the first song that both Taylor and Ed Sheeran has worked together. Both artists became friends in 2012 when they dropped several songs together and surprised the fans.
The song “Everything Has Changed” was released on Taylor Swift’s album Red and was a huge hit. Later in the same year, the two performed a duet together at Z100’s Jingle Balls held at Madison Square Garden.
In Taylor’s Red tour in 2013-2014, Ed Sheeran appeared for the opening act of the tour. In the coming years, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran were present at many tours of each other supporting onstage and offstage.
In 2017, Taylor and Ed Sheeran was featured together in Swift’s Reputation album song “End Game”. The two performed the song live in 2017 at Jingle Ball. For Taylor’s version of Red Album, the two artists teamed up to rerecord the song “Everything Has Changed”.