Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” could have been a Rihanna song. Sheeran revealed he didn’t give her the track because it includes a reference to a classic rock star. In addition, Sheeran ...

“Shape of You” defines Sheeran’s music in several ways. For starters, like he’s become accustomed to, there were plagiarism accusations to accompany the song’s massive commercial succes ...

What can we do with this? It would be one thing if “Shape Of You” was a fleeting little novelty, but it’s not that. It’s globally inescapable. It’s part of the societal wallpaper.

You have to poke a hole in the tissue to inject things into ... The tissue in the softer matrix regions started to bulge out and change shape. In this deformed matrix, there were invaginations, and ...