Digital Bad Habits Sheet Music Song Download

Few things are more paradoxically predictable at this point than artists reinventing themselves.

On the one hand, if you play the same old songs and notes, you risk sounding stale and rote and the public becoming bored with you, or you becoming bored and burning out yourself. On the other hand, if you try and fail, you risk the public not just turning on your current reinvented persona but going back and retroactively deciding that your former songs weren’t that great to begin with.

Some self-inventions become pop culture masterpieces. Consider David Bowie and his critically acclaimed journey from Major Tom to Ziggy Stardust to The Thin White Duke. Some self-inventions become pop culture punchlines. Consider Taylor Swift’s meme-ably mocked “Look What You Made Me Do,” her most critically panned catastrophe this side of, well, Cats.

So where does Ed Sheeran’s latest vampire pop reinvention “Bad Habits” fall on that scale? To fully answer that question, we have to first look at the backstory to the song.

While, as Elton John famously put it, “Sad Songs Say So Much,” is it possible that they can be too sad and say too much in the Age of COVID? Ed Sheeran and Co. seem to think so, and that’s a big reason why “Bad Habits” exists as we know it.

It’s fair to say that few things have reshaped society as radically as the COVID pandemic. It is still ongoing with the Delta variant still fueling cases, no matter how much some people (or governments) wish to pretend otherwise. Still, with vaccination rates above 50%, and Sheeran’s native UK seeing restrictions loosen amid 75% of adults having received two vaccines as of the 11^th of August, the mood around COVID has changed.

While nobody should be talking about “the end of the pandemic” just yet, it’s those restrictions loosening and accompanying good mood we have to thank for “Bad Habits.” At least that’s part of the inspiration, as related by Sheeran himself. As Rolling Stone reports, Sheeran and his producers initially conceived of another acoustic song in the vein of his past guitar-strumming hits. His acoustic style’s what tends to lead searches for Ed Sheeran sheet music. Read more about "The Story Behind Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits Song" in our blog »