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What’s The Meaning Of The Joker And The Queen By Ed Sheeran And Taylor Swift? Here’s What We Think
Ed Sheeran enlisted Taylor Swift to help portray a vulnerable love on “The Joker and The Queen.” Both Sheeran and Swift sing from the perspective of lovers shedding their poker faces to share their authentic selves with one another. “And I know you think that what makes a king / Is gold, a palace, and diamond rings / When I fold, you see the best in mе / The joker and the queen,” they croon.
“The Joker and The Queen” music video sees a continuation of the story Sheeran and Swift introduced in the “Everything Has Changed” visual, with the childhood friends grown into young adults missing one another while apart at university. (Yes, even the kids from the “Everything Has Changed” video reprised their roles for this reunion.) The second chapter of the story offered up some nostalgia for the stars’ dedicated listeners, with one fan commenting on YouTube, “This song is like an acknowledgment to Taylor and Ed’s beautiful friendship.”
Sheeran’s muse for the love song, his wife Cherry Seaborn, also has ties to Swift. Mr. and Mrs. Sheeran actually reconnected at Swift’s legendary East Coast Fourth of July party in 2015. “I was texting [Seaborn], and she was like, ‘I’m in Rhode Island at a 4th of July party,’ and I was like, ‘So am I,'” he told People. “I kinda said to Taylor, ‘Can I invite one of my old schoolmates?’ The rest is history.”
