Ed Sheeran Says Taylor Swift Takes Extreme Measures to Keep Her Music From Getting Leaked

Singer won't send her friends anything digitally

By Kendall Fisher Feb 10, 2017 4:16 PMTags
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We've never really heard of a Taylor Swift song leaking because she basically makes it impossible to happen, according to Ed Sheeran.

The red-headed singer says Swift goes to great lengths to keep her music protected, including hiring people to transport songs in a briefcase across the country.

"She would never send new songs, no," Ed said in a new interview, reported by Just Jared. "I hear them but it has to be with her."

And if he can't get to her? Well, that's when she hires said people.

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"I remember when I did a song with her for her album, I was in San Francisco, and they sent someone with a locked briefcase with an iPad and one song on it, and they flew to San Francisco, and played the song I've done with her," he recalled. "And they asked if I like it and I was like, 'Yeah,' and then they took it back, that's how I hear it."

Meanwhile, other than making sure her music never leaks, Sheeran recently revealed another factor that he believes helped make both him and T.Swift successful: being unpopular.

"There's an underdog element to it," he explained. "Taylor was never the popular kid in school. I was never the popular kid in school. Then you get to the point when you become the most popular kid in school—and we both take it a bit too far."

He continued, "She wants to be the biggest female artist in the world and I want to be the biggest male artist in the world. It also comes from always being told that you can't do something and being like, 'F--k you. I can.'"

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