Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift first collaborated together on the song "Everything Has Changed" from her 2012 album "Red." Over the years, Swift and Sheeran have performed the song together on a variety of tours and rerecorded the song on Swift's "Red (Taylor's Version)" album in 2021. The two have also collaborated on Swift's 2017 song, "End Game," as well as Sheeran's 2022 song, "The Joker and The Queen."
Sheeran revealed just how close he and Swift are in a May 2023 interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1. "I have long, long, long conversations with Taylor about stuff just because I feel like she's one of the only people that actually truly understands where I'm at," the "Shape of You" singer shared (via Billboard). "I had an hour-20 conversation with her yesterday and we were just... everything that was on our minds we talked about."