Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore
https://apnews.com/article/ed-sheeran-responds-macklemore-tour-3fd73815563039bea9b88f5efe745d62
https://apnews.com/article/ed-sheeran-responds-macklemore-tour-3fd73815563039bea9b88f5efe745d62
28 Comments
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 38 pts · 1d
Sheeran could have avoided this by telling Kraft where to shove it. Especially if his feelings about Palestine are what his post is designed to make us think they are. There’s not many artists who can sell out a stadium.
Though it baffles me why. His music does nothing for me.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1d
village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 1d
I doubt Kraft would have done what he did without contacting his legal department. I'm sure the contract has a bullshit "morality" clause that covers his ass.
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 1d
I’m Gen X and clueless to popculture, always have been.
Never of the guy until yesterday tbh.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
Right??? The eagerness with which so many people seem to want to appease and idolize billionaires is frankly revolting.
But that’s just American society for you these days, I guess :(
CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Pretty sure he’s English.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
They're talking about Kraft.
trebach@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 16h
You are correct. Ed Sheeran is English.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 23h
Hell he could have been just not a cunt and said "no I'm keeping him in my show" made no support and still made more money. That's a fucking crazy response to a genocide to me still, but my point stands he choose to be a cunt for cunts and people shouldn't want to work with him or pay him for that.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 10h
I actually enjoyed some of his more acoustic/soft songs quite a lot and I don't think anyone can deny he's a talented songwriter, some of the footage of him coming up with songs is truly impressive if you've ever made music, so I was willing to give a pass to the mainstream garbage and him being the definition of a wet wipe a-lister despite normally listening to niche stuff, but depending where this goes then I'll probably never be able to listen to these songs again without them being tainted. Add him to the list I guess...
ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org · 33 pts · 1d
Fuck Israel and fuck Israeli apartheid 👍
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 1d
lol I do kinda love that the blowback on Sheeran is growing so rapidly. It’s well deserved, after that bullshit.
Edit: Wow, four supporting acts, including the act replacing Macklemore as the opener? That’s a major spanner in the works. Nice.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net · 34 pts · 1d
Including his own backing band too lol
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1d
He could have stood up and cancelled the tour like a proper human instead he acted like a ghoul and it was cancelled for him.
Fuck him.
Manalith@midwest.social · 1 pts · 10h
I don't know anything about tour logistics so maybe this wouldn't have worked, but I think it would've been very good PR to find venues in those towns that were owned by people who support the Free Palestine message and just move. Probably wouldn't work since they'd likely have smaller max capacities, I dunno, but I feel like something could've been done. Choosing to silence someone is not as apolitical as he seems to think.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 1d
at least he has Pink and Boy George 🤣
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1d
Sheeran is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Revealing himself to be complicit in genocide and the world's largest pussy, destroying his career in the process, was entirely optional.
virku@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
You really think his career is over? He'll just turle up. Maybe release another album in a while and then go back on tour like nothing ever happened. Or do a Las Vegas show or some shit.
athairmor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
He didn’t want to take a stand including the stand to back up a band working with him.
Now he has no bands backing him up.
👨🍳💋
antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1d
Good Ed Sheeran is a sniveling little removed
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
This is the internet, you don’t have to censor the word cunt
khannie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I actually think their instance does it which is so weird.
antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 12h
I didn't Lemmy is doing that or smth idk
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12h
Damn the man keepin’ you down
AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
So happy to hear this, now if we the, workers, fight club said it best: "we cook for you, clean for, we take out your trash etc..", could some how unite and [redacted] those that enslave us, try and tell us what to think, how to act, what to believe we can make a positive change in the world
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 23h
i guess Kid Rocks up?
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
While I’ve been enjoying laughing at Ed’s own goal here, I think it’s way too soon to say his career is over. There are people still performing that have done worse than be milquetoast in the face of genocide.
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online · 3 pts · 16h
Isn't his Dad Irish? Doesn't he know about being an colonial powers bitch?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Robert Kraft is a Zionist POS.
Ed is a soulless ginger.