Pop: All Pure: Ed Sheeran in Munich

Munich / By Udo Eberl
31.07.2018

First, the contrast program: Anne-Marie, the British answer to all R & # 39; B-Queens United States, heated in the Munich Olympic Stadium in full boiling sound chart at 30 degrees. And Ed Sheeran? He entered the Marathontor at 8:45 pm and smiled happily.

Here's what the winners look like: Euphoria even before the first sound, which, as always, comes from an acoustic guitar. All done by hand and live, says Sheeran – just through the technical increase in his ground loop station, at which a second vocal microphone is connected, hits and ballads become loud sound songs.

To emphasize this, Sheeran launches percussive guitar body sounds, but without double playing field in progress. Magically, as he is relaxed and focused, he manipulates his pedals and buttons with his feet, while others are already stressed using the remote control of their TV.

Sheeran has everything under control. He is where he always wanted to be, without betraying, selling or giving up. He fills the stadiums with songs that you could also hear and sing at Baggersee, can not swell on the LED walls of the rather modest scene, no bigger than life. Nevertheless, the 27-year-old Briton still seems to be tangible, is the authentic superstar of our time and fills the Olympiastadion with about 120,000 people twice in two evenings in Munich.

His mischievous and juvenile smile, his irrational jump on the stage, the dance has nothing to do, his ads make it so accessible when he talks about his fright, the first concerts, his love for the German public. It also listens carefully to quiet songs and does not just enjoy its hits. Everything about Ed Sheeran seems to be authentic and especially nice. Perhaps because he does not conform to the clbadic pop star ideal and more superficially resembles the tattooed clbad clown who made him pbad from a street musician to a musician millionaire with great diligence.

Olympic Stadium in an ocean of smarthphone lights, of course: his voice is incredibly strong – the sweet "sea of ​​Tenerife" becomes pure enjoyment in the heights -, the sovereign guitar game, the ideal song sequence, the announcements chatty. "Perfect" – and lives even better. The popular duo-partners of single-hits are just as lacking in the stadium as the usual arrangements.

All pure, all happy or even "happier", with "The A Team" as well as with the "Galway Girl" folky, He is sung, acclaimed, cried with joy. Sheeran wants screams, he gets them. He asks for a collective swing of his arms as in hip-hop concerts, and that too – like all fairy-tale tonight this summer.

"If you do not know, you could be in the wrong concert," the singer smiles in front of "Thinking Out Loud" and ringing in the final. "Sing", the last song after a little over an hour and a half, is sung until Sheeran returns to the scene for the encore. With a rainbow flag and in the dress of the German national football team in a peaceful mission and with the mega hit "Shape of You"

Now, as with "You need me, I do not need you. " Otherwise, the emotions in the stadium are probably out of control. Ed Sheeran, who has a lot of soul in her voice, skilfully rappels, poses, shoots. Who needs a final fireworks? No one.