--- description: The English singer-songwriter gives Bey's hit an acoustic spin title: Ed Sheeran covers Beyoncé's 'Drunk In Love' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a7eb995753f00a8/69868a4eadae44bdff54282b/ed-sheeran-drunk-in-love-beyonce.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # WATCH: Ed Sheeran Covers Beyoncé's 'Drunk In Love'  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 11, 2014 7:26 PM CUT  Ed Sheeran performing on stage in London. (Yui Mok—PA Wire/AP) Ed Sheeran performing on stage in London. (Yui Mok—PA Wire/AP)Yui Mok—PA Wire/Press Association Images/AP  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 11, 2014 7:26 PM CUT Another day, another serfbort: Beyoncé’s “Drunk In Love” has been covered, [remixed](http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/02/18/%5Fdrunk%5Fin%5Flove%5Fremixes%5Ffrom%5Fkanye%5Fwest%5Fthe%5Fweeknd%5Ft%5Fi%5Fdiplo%5Fdetail%5Fand%5Fkaty.html "undefined") and [parodied](https://www.google.com/search?q=drunk+in+love+parody&rlz=1C5CHFA%5FenUS583US583&oq=drunk+in+love+parody&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l3j69i61j0.2127j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es%5Fsm=91&ie=UTF-8 "undefined") so many times since it came out, you’d think she made a bet with the [“Let It Go”](http://time.com/58192/let-it-go-passover-version/ "undefined") songwriters to see who could break the Internet first. Yesterday rapper [Angel Haze dropped her aggressive remix](http://www.spin.com/articles/angel-haze-beyonce-drunk-in-love-cover-stream/ "undefined") of the ode to marital sexytime, and today English crooner and [certified Taylor Swift BFF](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/taylor-swift-ed-sheeran-friendship%5Fn%5F3672040.html "undefined") Ed Sheeran took to the airwaves to unleash his own take on the track. After [teasing a cover of the song](http://www.mtv.co.uk/ed-sheeran/news/ed-sheeran-covers-beyonces-drunk-in-love "undefined") back in March, Sheeran told Elvis Duran and the Z100 Morning Show that popular demand inspired him to go for a full version. Somehow — perhaps because of his accent — Sheeran sounds as comfortable belting out the song’s hook as he does spitting out it’s woozy, half-rapped second verse. Kudos to him: It takes skill to make lyrics about getting hot and heavy on the kitchen floor sound adorable. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/59889/ed-sheeran-beyonce-drunk-in-love/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/59889/ed-sheeran-beyonce-drunk-in-love/"},"headline":"WATCH: Ed Sheeran Covers Beyoncé's 'Drunk In Love'","datePublished":"2014-04-11T19:26:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:16:26.655Z","description":"The English singer-songwriter gives Bey's hit an acoustic spin","url":"https://time.com/59889/ed-sheeran-beyonce-drunk-in-love/","keywords":["Music","Beyonce","Beyonce Knowles","covers","ed sheeran"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a7eb995753f00a8/69868a4eadae44bdff54282b/ed-sheeran-drunk-in-love-beyonce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7a7eb995753f00a8/69868a4eadae44bdff54282b/ed-sheeran-drunk-in-love-beyonce.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ed Sheeran performing on stage in London. (Yui Mok—PA Wire/AP)","caption":"Ed Sheeran performing on stage in London. (Yui Mok—PA Wire/AP)","creditText":"Yui Mok—PA Wire/Press Association Images/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/59889/ed-sheeran-beyonce-drunk-in-love/","name":"WATCH: Ed Sheeran Covers Beyoncé's 'Drunk In Love'"}}]}] ```