Ed Sheeran and Benny Blanco may make sweet music together, but when it comes to traveling? Well, these artists have conflicting ideas.
The singer, who has collaborated with Selena Gomez’s new fiancée Blanco on songs like “Perfect” and “Don’t,” took to TikTok on Saturday to share a funny story about how the two traveled together from the United States to the United Kingdom. while working on Sheeran’s 2017 album Distribution.
Using the Pepe the King Prawn meme – in which TikTokers use an image of the crazy one Muppets character as a backdrop for stories, on Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” – Sheeran described how Blanco was “afraid of flying”, forcing them to take a boat across the Atlantic Ocean.
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“We spent ten whole days of my life on that boat,” Sheeran wrote. “10 whole days.”
However, a few days later things got even stranger. “A few nights later we hear an announcement from the ship’s captain. ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we are now passing the spot where the Titanic sank. Tourists walk to the side of the boat and take pictures of the water.’
According to Sheeran, he and Blanco had ‘closed their eyes’. Then they decided to watch the 1997 movie Titanic.
“Benny holds me while we watch the movie,” Sheeran said. “I can’t help but think, was this his plan all along? Is he going to paint me as one of his French girls? Will he swing me around for some Irish bangers?
And of course the most important question: “We both fit on that wooden door, right?”
Luckily for Sheeran, when he woke up the next morning he was ‘dry’ and only ‘a little cold’.
“A generous portion Distribution was written when I was honestly afraid of becoming a Calippo,” Sheeran shared, referring to the ice pop brand. “Ready for the plot twist? Benny got on the plane a month later.’
This isn’t the first time this story has made news. Blanco previously spoke about his Titanic adventure with Sheeran during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in April. He also shared other details of their cruise adventure, which led to the completion of Distribution, which won best pop vocal album at the 2018 Grammys.
“Ed is so nice. He’s the nicest man in the world,” Blanco told Fallon.[The cruise] gave us a room to write it in. It was the same room where… during the day there was a pianist who looked like an 85 year old woman. She came to practice every day and had no idea who any of us were. She said, ‘Hey, it’s my time to practice.'”
In 2022, Blanco shared a photo on Instagram of him and Sheeran with their shared Grammy, along with a lengthy post celebrating five years of the award-winning album, which he said changed his life “forever.”
“It’s not often you meet someone in your 20s that you look at and say this is one of my best friends,” Blanco wrote in the caption. ‘I don’t mean for people to say in some corny LA way that if they know someone for two weeks…we’ve seen each other grow…I’ve seen me fall in love…fall out of love…then seen me cry all night at a festival… headlining a festival… have a child and a beautiful family… and everything in between… music was always the excuse, but laughing and watching each shirt I own rips to shreds when we get drunk, it’s good stuff.”
He also referenced their ocean journey, writing: ‘I want to thank you for taking me on this journey… I love you and I still can’t believe we got half of this on a boat to England from the VS wrote because I was afraid to fly… thank you to all the wonderful staff and fans!!! I still pinch myself.”
