It was certified Double Platinum in Australia and Norway, Platinum in Canada and Gold in Mexico and New Zealand. It also reached the top 10 charts in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Slovakia, and South Korea. The song topped the charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, and Switzerland. In the US, the single peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100, sold over a million copies, and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It sold over 518.000 copies and was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In the UK, ‘Little Things’ became the second number 1 hit for One Direction. We went in to record a different one of his and he said ‘I’ve written something else if you want to hear it, he wrote it and then played it to us in the session when we were supposed to record something else and we said ‘All right, we want to record that now.’” Release date One Direction hadn’t even intended on recording the song when they first hit the studio with Sheeran: “That one actually wasn’t one of “them” we were supposed to be recording.
It’s got one of my favorite lines that I’ve ever written in a song: ‘I know you never like the sound of your voice on tape and you never like to know how much you weigh and you still have to squeeze into your jeans but you’re perfect to me.’”
I’ve kept in touch with Fiona, we’ve done gigs and stuff and about two months ago she sent me the tune and was like, ‘Oh, do you remember this?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, I do remember that’, and I was in the studio with the One Direction boys at the time and I was playing it and they were like, ‘We really like that’. Sheeran also explained in an interview with Capital FM: “The great thing about it is I wrote that song about an ex-girlfriend with a girl called Fiona Bevan when I was 17 and we lost the song. You’ll have to hear it, those ‘little things’ include all those seeming imperfections and idiosyncrasies, like the ‘crinkles by your eyes,’ and ‘that you talk in your sleep.’” With deeply humanistic themes all centering around the idea of coping with profound loss, he creates a space of sagacious self-reflection in a bittersweet and thought-provoking conclusion.Songwriter Ed Sheeran told MTV News: “It was written about the best things about someone, kind of like the things you wouldn’t expect. Stand out tracks “ALL I KNOW/OUT MY MIND” & “SUMMERTIME” are testaments to Harm’s honest and cutting approach to songwriting. 22, 2019), chronicles his personal experience with different types of love lost & the grief associated with these experiences. Cole, Daughter, Kanye West, & Frank Ocean, Harms creates music that blends the realms of left-of-center pop/electronic production with the raw lyricism & heavy grooves typically associated with hip-hop & R&B.ĭeeply affected by the loss of his father to glioblastoma (brain cancer) in 2015, Austin writes songs that are reflections of various aspects of his grieving process – while also directly reflecting on his long struggle with depression and anxiety. Drawing influence from artists such as Bon Iver, J. I keep waitin’ for you to turn your back ‘Cause lately I’ve been livin’ déjà vu And everybody that never came back Tries to remind me when I look at youĮdit bioAustin Harms hails from the small farm town of Visalia, CA and is now based in Los Angeles. Original text at /1565873 ★ Verse 1 ★Īnd let ‘em all just roam around with no consequence now
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