Ed Sheeran released this sexy, upbeat song as the second single from his = album on September 10, 2021. Fans had predicted he'd title the album – as the natural progression from his previous titles of + (2011), × (2014) and ÷ (2017). Speaking to GQ magazine, Sheeran explained this buoyant track is one reason he called it = (Equals) and not – (Minus). "I was making the record and I wrote a song called 'Shivers' and I was like, 'This doesn't really feel like [Minus],' same with another song called 'Overpass Graffiti,' he said. "And none of these songs fitted in with what [Minus] would be, eventually."
The song finds Sheeran getting seriously lustful over his hot lover, who's giving him the "shivers." I never kissed a mouth that tastes like yours This is not the first time Sheeran has sung about mouth taste on a single. Back in 2014, he crooned on "Thinking Out Loud": Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love That song was about his then-girlfriend, Athina Andrelos. On "Shiver," Sheeran's muse is his wife, Cherry Seaborn, whom he started dating in 2015 and married four years later.
Sheeran wrote the song as soon as his Divide tour ended in late summer 2019. He rented a farm in Suffolk where he set up a studio with his collaborators for a fortnight "to see what happened."
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