After his appearance at the MTV VMAs in New York, musician describes events as ‘lots of people wanting other people to fail’.

It’s just lots of people wanting other people to fail and I don’t like that.”.

“All the artists are sweet people, but they’re surrounded by entourages that want them to win too, so it’s one artist surrounded by 10 people and another artist surrounded by 10 people and everyone is kind of giving each other the side-eye.”.

Sheeran said that US ceremonies were worse than their UK counterparts, where “everyone gets drunk and no one really cares who wins or loses”.

I’ve spoken to people and they’re like, ‘I just felt really depressed afterwards … It’s a really, really horrible atmosphere to be in there.