Ed Sheeran always inspired by Rihanna Bang

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Ed Sheeran always writes songs with Rihanna in mind.

The 34-year-old singer praised the ‘Diamonds’ hitmaker for having “the best taste” of any other artist and he admitted he isn’t the only songwriter who pens tracks in the hope of catching Rihanna’s ear.

Speaking on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, he said: “I think out of any musician, Rihanna has the best taste out of anyone.

“She always picks just really, really great songs. So as songwriters within the songwriting community, you’re always writing songs to pitch to Rihanna.

“Like every single album that I’ve ever done, I’ve always gone, ‘Right let’s try and write a song that we can pitch to Rihanna.’

“ Of his and Benny Blanco’s 2015 track ‘Love yourself ’, which was recorded by Justin Bieber, he added: “’Love Yourself’, actually - the one I did for Bieber - was originally had Rihanna in mind, ‘Oh, we should do something for her.’

“I promise you, there’ll be so many songwriters out that their best song came from trying to write a Rihanna song.”

While Ed’s 2017 track ‘Shape of You’ became the first song to get two billion streams on Spotify and is the platform’s second most played tune, with 4.2 billion streams, he admitted he didn’t initially intend to record it himself because he “didn’t really feel like it suited’ his performance style.

He said: “Even though I wrote it, I didn’t really feel like it suited me, and I changed little bits about it and produced it with - it’s got a lot of acoustic guitar slaps on it, so it sort of sounds like I would do it live, and then it suited me a bit more.