Maybe he thinks his fans are of mixed minds about this. He really failed to read the room here. Probably wasn’t paying attention.
It’s too bad, Ed Queeran would be a great drag name.
I love a good display of solidarity
On Tuesday, Sheeran reiterated that the decision to drop Macklemore was not his, but that of promoter Messina Touring Group following pressure from the venues. “I have spent this week trying to build bridges, to find a solution and unfortunately, was unable to do so,” Sheeran wrote. “I know who I am, both as a person and as an artist, and those who know my heart know my values too.”
Oh boohoo Ed, when stadium owners tell you “you can’t play here if he plays” about someone who did nothing wrong, then you make that demand public and tell the stadium owners and the public that that means the contract you had with them can not be executed as expected and that it means you can’t play their stadium. That’s a good move, ethically and in terms of publicity, because that holds the rich assholes responsible. Now all that shit will (rightfully) stick to your shoe, so don’t act surprised if people say you stink.
Damn, you know shit’s gotten bad when Finneas and Ferb get involved.
His own band quit
Oh shit. I was wondering if he’d play his next date. I guess not. Unless he can find a new band in three days, LOL.
Good on them.
No issue hiring a new band in that timescale.
The issue is probably finding one that wants to do it and get marked as pro-genocide.
No issue hiring some random musicians. But the previous band had been practicing, right? Are the random last minute session musicians going to be as good with only a couple day’s warnibg?
I know it’s Ed Sheeran’s music, not exactly complex classical music, but still. Musicians aren’t interchangeable parts lmao
Yeah professional musicians would be good to go. It’s what they do.
In complicated matters, the simplest explenation is almost always the correct one: he supports the genocide but he’s too cowardly to own up to it.
His statement basically said he’s against it but is too much of a bitch to vocalize that because he’ll get canceled too, something about “not disappointing the fans” by either pulling out or getting pulled by the promoter.
It’s a bullshit excuse no matter how you cut it. The truth of the matter is that he was not willing to be inconvenienced by having to cancel his tour in solidarity with people he supposedly agrees with. And if you frame your cancellation as “We cannot proceed with the tour because these venues won’t allow us to play because of our support of Palestine.” Who are the fans truly going to be mad at? The artists and the bands? Or the corporate-owned venues that are sycophantly siding with genocidal Israel and attempting to stifle free speech?
It’s amazing to me that we are in an era where neutrality is not only not an option, it’s worse than picking a side because then everyone on all sides sneers at you for being at best an idiot and at worst a coward.
Being neutral about something that is happening doesn’t stop it from happening. If you’re not stopping a genocide, you are a bad person. It’s pretty simple.
Being for, against or neutral about something that is happening doesn’t stop it from happening.
FTFY
Having an opinion that aligns with your beliefs is great. Israel should be ashamed of what they have done, and their leaders should be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity.
That happens to be my opinion. If someone rolled up and we started talking about it and they said they didn’t really know much about it, in the past that would be a surprise perhaps, and maybe a conversation would start. Now if someone said that there would be fuckwits calling them monsters while they pick Cheetos out if their unwashed navels and congratulate themselves for helping to stop a genocide.
Or to rephrase an old classic: opinions are like assholes, people love to spread them online and act like it means something.
There are opinions, and there are verified, objective facts. You’re using the same logic that climate deniers use. Ohhhhh there’s just no way to know, I’m not convinced, climate goes in cycles.
No, you don’t get to say that, it’s not an opinion. It’s just a denial of objective and rigorously proved and peer reviewed facts.
Shame on you for denying the objectively proven and defined genocide. There is no debate. Only facts and perpetrators.
Won’t sooooomeboiooody think of the NEUTRALS!!!
“Won’t somebody think of the neutrals” eh? Is that what I said?
already too many words spent on this insignificant event…
He supports whatever the billionaires he suckles from do.
In support of Palestine*
Important distinction, and in this case it’s both. Headline could have been better about that.
We could show support for Maclemore’s stand by streaming Macklemore on your preferred streaming platform all day. If we all do that at least he will get some income and the numbers can help to show the world is on the same anti genocidal wavelength
This video kicks ass!
Can’t handle the music, but I got it playing on my spare phone in the corner of a room I’m not in for the day. Haha
That’s hilarious, tbh. Lol
Not a bad idea. Like they always say vote with your wallet and your feet.
Most of these billionaires only support Israel because its economy feeds America. Israel’s tech sector touches silicone valley in myriad ways. Israel’s lobbying arm gets politicians rich. Israeli aid gets spent with American contractors - especially military. It’s a big greedy circle jerk, not true solidarity on Israel’s actions. America only calls out genocide when its low stakes for the owner class or an enemy.
your mixing up your cause and effect. zionism is an export of the american elite, always has been
Now no one can stay on the tour because staying will be saying youre pro isreal but default. This is why you always side with free speech.
Remember kids, not choosing a side is a side.
This is awesome to see.
Karmic orgasm
For some reason it puts the Terminator song in my head. The victory version that rolls at the end credits.
Must be the humans having a small victory over ‘the machine’.
Finneas, as in the apple TV intro music guy?
I thought he was Ferb’s brother ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t know about that, but he’s Billie Eilish’s brother and co-writer/producer.
Pretty sure he’s more well known as the guy that made the apple TV intro music.
He very much isn’t. He’s extremely well-known as the other half of (his sister) Billie Eilish’s recordings and plays with her live. He also has a pretty successful band in his own right. That’d be why he was selected for the Apple TV thing to begin with.
I mean, I guess if you’d never heard of Billie Eilish or heard her music before, I could see your first exposure to him being the Apple TV intro music.
Agree to disagree
so dude, billie eilish comes up in his wikipedia well before the apple tv intro music.
like, Jet is known for more than being in the ipod commercial. if you’re an apple fanboy and don’t have a lot of other interests, that’s all you’ll know them from though.
I’m just a fan of the 2 second apple TV sound that plays before each show. Sometimes I’ll start the episode over again just to hear it again.
I can’t be sure, but I think y’all are being woooshed in this thread, brothers
Attempted wooooshing =/= wooooshing
I thought there was a reasonable chance of it being deadpan, but you know, I try to be helpful…
Looks like it, but it wasn’t at all made clear by the wording. Some whooshes are justified.
Woosh!
Yeah, I had just gotten home and unloaded a bunch of weights out of the damn car. My brain was not the most on
ME just before I fart: “ALEXA, play me something by Ed Sheeran.”
Alexa plays Ed Sheeran. Everyone hears a gigantic fart.
It takes a lot to make me laugh at a fart joke. Well done.
What to say after you fart in a crowd (or elevator).
“Not a bad sound out of a half inch speaker”
“A bit more choke and that engine will start”
“Keep shouting Sir, we’ll find you”
