Ed Sheeran may be one of the most successful artists of all time, but that doesn't mean he's successful in the feline community.
The 32-year-old singer-songwriter recently returned to a cat cafe he visited a decade ago to perform a private concert for a group of cats — none of whom were fans of his 2014 performance of “Thinking Out Loud.”
“Who wants to hear a song?” asks a roomful of kittens, who were too busy eating kibble to answer, in an Instagram video posted on Tuesday (January 30).
The four-time Grammy winner then went through a guitar strum before all but one of the cats promptly left the stage. The remaining kitty – a fluffy gray shorthair with a hilarious underbite – seemed less interested in Sheeran and more fond of his food.
“It wasn't any more successful than my last visit, no,” Sheeran says, before the video cuts to a 10-year-old clip of him performing “Thinking Out Loud” to an equally apathetic audience in the same cat cafe.
“Trying to win the same kitties that got away from me in 2014, same results,” the musician captioned his post.
The “Bad Habits” singer is fresh off his first Emmy win, picking up the award for Outstanding Original Score and Lyrics for Ted Lasso“A Beautiful Game” with Max Martin and Foy Vance at the January 6 ceremony. Sheeran is currently on tour following the release of his album in October 2023 Autumn Variations, with shows scheduled in Asia through mid-March. (Hopefully it scores better in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore than it does in the cat café.)
Watch Sheeran bomb in front of a bunch of cats below.
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