Radio stations, protesters escalate backlash over Ed Sheeran tour changes
Starting to look like the artist-boycott of South Africa back in the 80s. Maybe it can grow equally big? Boycotting ALL artists who support IsraHell/ refuse to use their voice against genocide? It only takes one to start the ball rolling. www.thenational.scot/news/2655742...
Bowerbird94Yes, it's exactly what happened w Sth Africa. 1st, a minority spoke up but big names were afraid to "take sides". Then more & more people took a stance. Now every politician / artist who was around then claims they were *always* against apartheid. Palestinians can't wait 20 yrs for our support. 🇵🇸
The butcher's knife cares not for the lamb's cry 🇵🇸 🖖‧🌈48I boycott #EdSheeran anyway, his blandness irritates me
The Good Witch41Ok but can we also get this pointed back to the rich white racist owners trying to police American speech. They support corrupt warmongering Bibi and his genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
Nuala✨40Great, now do Taylor Grift, the most high profile and most egregious of the “speaking up is only appropriate when it directly affects me and my bottom line” celebs.
Wayne Deck19Ed Sheeran might have just destroyed his whole fucking career.
morgaine-pendragon.bsky.social18I've been SO DISAPPOINTED & angry w/all the living Artists Against Apartheid musicians who have remained silent on Palestine. Bruce, Bono, Little Steven, et al. Cowards. Sun City was a brilliant work of protest art: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpDW...
gav13everyone knows israel is deeply unpopular, it's just the momentum required. there's a well-oiled machine for crushing israel's opponents but there is a point when it doesn't work and people aren't going to be afraid to publicly oppose them
Tom Ruffen6Politicans take AIPAC money and refuse to criticize Israel, letting genocide unfold on their watch. But rock stars and their fans are different. They stand for humanity and justice. The world and the American public is disgusted by Netanyahu's Nazi policies. Ed Sheeran made a big mistake.
Dave Brockman 💙💛5I'm something of a trend-setter, having been ignoring Ed Sheeran's music since about 2013.
Meidas Paul Wigton 🫘 🇺🇳🇺🇦4Ed could easily make this right… but he’s not. ☹️
Terri Resists4Fuck everyone who refuses to decry genocide and condemn Netanyahu.
Celiene O'Hara4I can feel it growing! I hope Taylor Swift & Beyonce are consulting with their publicists and managers, they will not be able to remain neutral much longer!
Dr. John Francis3So much for the luck of the Irish
Dylan Michel3They should have never played his shitty music in the first place, but this is a step in the right direction.
Aster Vérité3I aint gonna play sun city....
A radio station dropping Ed Sheeran because listeners hated the Macklemore decision is one hell of a backlash loop. Macklemore donates $1 million, the openers walk, and suddenly everyone involved is explaining exactly where they stand on Palestinian lives.
Empires of Waste11It's not true at all to say Ed doesn't do politics - after he sang at Kraft's wedding, he was happy to join the billionaire-favourite 'support Ukraine' bandwagon..
Union Jane10Classic Hits Radio said, "As an independent Irish-owned radio station, however, we believe it is important to listen to our audience and to stand alongside Irish artists who have made what is undoubtedly a significant professional decision based on their own convictions." www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
Fitzie9Bob Kraft, "against free speech but pro prostitution."
michigancheated.bsky.social9All I did was fire one of my best friends because he said murdering children is wrong. Why is everyone mad at me? -Ed
Ah Sierra6Ed, A math equation to learn: Cowardice = Loss of $ Millions
ClimateBook5Sheeran is like the American Cheese of music. Without any taste, bland, widely available, innocuous. I'd like to say I'm boycotting him but compared to, say, trad Irish, he's just Cool Whip. So I have nothing to boycott there. Might give Maclemore a listen, though.
Darren McLean79It's sooooo 2026 that one of the most bland musicians alive, who was (until this week) Mr Inoffensive-Smile is now one of the most vilified musicians in the world. Yet it's still one of the least weird things happening just now.
Professor Peacock3A terribly difficult decision for Ed Sheeran: on the one hand, almost the entire civilized world sees what is happening in the Gaza Strip and recognizes it as genocide, while on the other hand, there are billionaire stadium owners who see it as liberating Greater Israel. #Israel #EdSheeran
RIO LINDA MEX 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦🦍aka Gus Gallegos2When Your Life Turns To Shit
Not to mention that Kraft openly colluded with other owners to explicitly “cancel” Macklemore. It looks like Ed Sheeran organizes his tours through a separate tour entity. Of note: the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 grants the NFL a limited antitrust exemption, but this ain’t it.
Professa Murray50Robert Kraft is allowed to have whomever he wants at the privately owned Patriots Stadium, but we have to: (a) ask how he pressured other owners; (b) some of whom are at stadiums that are publicly financed; and (c) in a limited marketplace for highly visible stadium concerts.
Ms B Moran15And his Stepford wife serves on the Kennedy Center board.
Wyldling_426Saw this nugget earlier: www.billboard.com/pro/casey-wa...
Sam Handwhich4I think the best possible thing for crafts PR team is to suggest that he offer to drink hemlock in the arms of the Brady statue
Blackbelt0104Robert has been a hateful old pervert a long time.
FreesiaGirl3But Kanye got to play.
I understand why people are upset at Ed Sheeran for caving to the demands of Robert Kraft, but why aren't people even more upset at Kraft for making the demands in the first place? Where are the boycotts of Patriots games? What about other concerts at his stadium?
Nicole Marie7People who say this are the same people who couldn’t figure out why the left were protesting Kamala Harris, instead of Donald Trump over Gaza.
SophieLeon 🇨🇦3Erin Burnett had a guest on and they were normalizing Robert Kraft’s actions saying other stadium owners agree and that Macklemore was an anti-Semite for speaking out against the genocide of Palestinians. That ridiculous trope 🤮
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕕𝕠𝕨 𝕂𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕤1Why??? But, But, because SPORTS!! Sports sports sports...by god, we need more fucking SPORTS!!! Because sports are the most important thing in American culture....We have now even fashioned our democracy around fucking SPORTS!!
cassla.bsky.social1RK and his lik have less power when they can't use artists or athletes as tools to manipulate the masses. This will show others they do not have to be used this way & that being apolitical no longer pays. It's a watershed moment, the response doesn't have to be perfect to be effective.
genxrager.bsky.social1I doubt there’s a single person who didn’t already think Kraft was a piece of shit so more disappointing to learn Sheeran is a bitch ass ginger cuck
paul lukasiak1probably because the people who would boycott Kraft are already doing so, based on his unequivocal support for genocide
Irish radio has removed Ed Sheeran from their playlist. Ed Sheeran has an Irish passport because his Grandfather was Irish. But they don't have to provide him with that either, tick-tock.
ÓLiatháin ☘️💚5Oof! I just had a notification on concert tickets for his gig at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA on Oct 3 (I live here, but no tickets purchased) and they now start at $22 A week ago that had a zero on the end!!! OOOOOFFFF! In the deep south!!!
JoRichardsKent2Ouch?! That could cause some tour problems without the passport?
Safetyadviser1He’s only a Plastic Irish ! We here in Ireland know what’s it’s like living under occupation. He has never experienced what we have. We were murdered by occupying forces, he never experienced army after they murdered your class mate, pointing a gun at you head as I walked to school and shouted BANG
Mike Hosking joins Tommy Robinson in support of Ed Sheeran, compounding what must be the worst week of Ed's life.
Kieran10"Sheeran is famously apolitical. It’s a smart move that served Dolly Parton" Motherfucker when was Dolly Parton apolitical?
Daily Indignation8NZME's poster boy Mike Hosking thinks what the Palestinian people are going through isn't big enough to worry about. I wonder what he does think is more important. Based on what he dedicates his considerable airtime to, signs being in te reo, I guess.
S!mon McAtamney2Fuck Mike Hosking. He deserves to be compared to Tommy Robinson. He knows he’s a Race baiting hack and revels in it whilst hiding behind opinions.
I am so glad I get to shit on Ed Sheeran now because jesus christ this is a weapons grade stinker. Every time it comes on the Supermarket radio I feel like hiding in my trolley
norman emailer13Going to try to put “crumbling like pastries” in different great and very popular songs and see how it goes. That’s me in the corner That’s me in the spotlight Crumbling like a pastry
norman emailer6What is it with pop vocalists giving double syllable rhymes a shot and just cack-handedly jamming whatever words in there. Wrong idiom fuck wit. What if someone’s first attempt at a battle rap was a wimpy pop ballad that an electricity retailer would use for their call waiting music
dr mo and mr normal3Holy fuck I haven't thought about this song in a decade why did we let this happen
Rayna Lamb - She/her2I am reading this after one of my teeth literally crumbled in my mouth last night. It does not remind me of pastries. TERRIBLE lyrics.
