“Don’t” is Sheeran’s newest video, and it follows dancer Phillip “Pacman” Chbeeb as he works his way from sweatpants to suits, dancing his way to the top. The video does not reflect the song, as the song is about Sheeran’s resentful feelings towards a woman who cheated. It does, however, beautifully depict the evolution of Chbeeb’s dancing career. Sheeran makes a drive-by appearance (literally, he drives by when Chbeeb is dancing on the sidewalk), and his face appears subtly throughout the video, such as on the TV screen in the first house. Overall, the music video focuses on Chbeeb’s story and his incredible dancing but the song focuses on issue in Sheeran's personal life.
The video Don't by Ed Sheeran, directed by Emil Nava's visual screen play for Ed’s latest X single follows a talented dancer as he strangely contorts, bends and twists his way from rags to riches, going door to door and messing with hearts along the way. As for Ed? He’s here too, briefly, in a drive-by cameo, but the attention is mostly on a series of strangers. The narrative could be interpreted in a number of ways (as evidenced by the on-going discussions in the video’s comment section), but it all seems to connect back to some of Sheeran’s more popular song themes — fame, fortune and broken relationships. But wait, perhaps even more obvious; I guess the impact of Sia‘s mesmerizingly strange “Chandelier” video is now clearly being felt within the industry. Rather than to feature a well-built actor wearing a white tank top Sheeran chooses to reflect the musician’s own dishevelled aesthetic, having said that he does make a couple of cameo appearances in the video.
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