Ed Sheeran Collaborates With Taylor Swift's '1989' Songwriter

Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift are totally BFF, but they have even more in common — they even share songwriters. The "Thinking Out Loud" singer says that he worked on a new track with the songwriter who cowrote his bestie's "Welcome to New York" and "I Know Places."

"It was a really weird thing because I hear from everyone that he just loves writing songs all the time," he said.

"And I'd never met him and he was in the dressing room next to me at X Factor so I just popped my head around the corner and was like, 'Oh do you want to write a song tonight?' and he was like 'yeah.'"

Since Ed is such a prolific collaborator — and his stuff is always so good — we can't wait to see what he came up with when working with the One Republic singer. It's guaranteed to be a super-catchy hit!