Ed Sheeran says friends and family 'abandoned' him amid tour fallout
🇬🇧 🗣️ @marinapurkiss.bsky.social: “His nice guy image has collapsed — It’s not that Ed Sheeran didn’t speak up on 🇵🇸, it’s that he allowed the silencing of someone who did… If you don’t have a position on this now you’re going to lose respect. He has F.U. money to take a stand.”
Di136Robert Kraft should be the focus of all this. Ed doesn’t get a pass for fumbling the whole thing, but this was Kraft and his other venue owning cronies that got together.
Auntie Liz67I saw a video analysis of this over on the other socials. He could have still said "I don't do politics" (even if it's BS) and stood with Macklemore. "That's my friend and I'm sticking by him. We all play or we walk." One show missed at most. But nope. He did the dumb thing. Sucks to suck.
Fierce Canadian 🇨🇦33Canadians agree that standing up, even if it costs you, is the only way to go.
rmcestone.bsky.social32It's amazing that Ed Sheeran gets villified but Alex Ovechkin gets a free pass.
DragonChris19If you're a Patriots fan, just give up your season tickets and don't support those spineless Owners. The same goes to others that are following the same pathetic boycott.
Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment18Sheeran will be the last artist to give another artist a platform to express his political views when on tour. Too costly to risk the livelihoods of everyone involved. How many people are boycotting the stadiums? Billionaires got what they want and everyone is blaming the artist. Win-Win!
Steve M.10The concept of "F.U. money" is meaningless because most of the people who have huge amounts of money are addicted to the quest for more, so they don't dare to say "F.U." to anyone, even though they can afford to.
Mike Bailey7Exactly the point. If playing your music for people means so much then be more choosy about where you play it. Be in charge, there are plenty of venues not run by genocide supporting bullies.
raincoast.bsky.social2If you can't take a stand against genocide, you're complicit. There is no middle ground on genocide Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Ed Sheeran's Philly concert is over but big questions remain What was the role of Eagles' owner Jeff Lurie in the cancellation of Macklemore? How can there be censorship in a stadium owned by the city where American freedom was founded? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/eagl...
Footyhead16Before they give these rich divas another publicly financed stadium we should probably include a freedom of speech rider, if only a document existed...
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"Whiskey" Callahan5NFL ratings down? No? People have ZERO integrity. If people had a spine they would have boycotted indefinitely until the answers to these questions were known. Support Palestine out one side of their mouths, support complicit NFL owners out the other if there's a meaningless GAME they want to watch.
ChefJohn4What,, did he pull a Steely Dan thing and just bring in a bunch of studio musicians and just give them charts to read for the music?? I thought his band quit??
RFK Brain Worm Jr.4Public funds should not be spent on stadiums where the billionaire owners call the shots on free speech. Historically no city ever makes back their money spent on these stadiums after shelling out a billion we're never the ones profiting in any way.
Suzi3Welcome to Rome where circus is all - “not coming after i already bought a ticket is like pouring out a can of bud light,” a concertgoer said in Philly.
Tressie McMillan Cottom182I know my brain is cooked because I read this and was like, “what nonsense does Don Henley and Glenn Frey’s ghost have to account for now?!!”
Paul Rosenberg68The NFL as a whole benefits from anti-trust exemption. The stadiums are publicly financed. It's a multi-level scheme of enormous wealth extracted from the public. Will highlights how it's particularly vile in Philly, but what he writes about specifically applies generally everywhere.
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The issue isn’t that Ed Sheeran didn’t say anything about Palestine… It’s that he allowed the silencing of someone who did, when (let’s be honest) he’s has more than enough FU money to have taken a principled stand.
kevinlucioni.bsky.social12Back in 1994, Green Day were supported on a US Tour by a gay punk band called Pansy Division. Promoters told GD that if Pansy Division were on the bill, venues wouldnt book them. GD said "If they dont play, we dont play" . Pansy Division supported GD on the tour.
Paul10That's been my take. His mate wants to say a few (fairly uncontroversial) words. Stadium owner boots him off the tour. Ed should have said to stadium owner, "I like you but my mate stays." I think stadium owner would have backed down because of Ed's clout.
Schmandle9I’m so sick of people saying why can’t music just be about music. Music not being about anything is why it’s so shit these days and no one would notice if people like Ed Sheeran were replaced by AI. Music has to be about SOMETHING to keep it human.
Wren 💙7Ed Sheeran said he was trying to be apolitical, but there are times when he has supported charities & he performed with others at the Concert for Ukraine in 2022. As Marina says - Sheeran could afford to take it financially. The supporting acts are likely to have lost much more in this mess.
imissnormal.bsky.social6He's no John Lennon, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan that's for sure
RicH Owens4Spot on. He sided with Kraft and it was the wrong side
from musical acts to sexual partners, no one is opening for ed sheeran
Thee Matt Lydon Writes12Shape of You? More like Shape of Poo! (Am I doing it right?)
human bean4no one is coming for ed sheeran either i bet
Braden Serkas4Reports are coming in that Ed Sheeran fans are being encouraged to hold on to their tickets for upcoming shows. According to sources close to the matter, “people really want them to be somewhere else for a solid couple of hours”
Peter Collinson2Even Kash Patel can't set Ed up for a date.
euler13.bsky.social2They’re saying he can’t get an elevator door or CVS open.
jonathanmlewis.bsky.social1Why is she eating potato chips like that?
The thing with Ed Sheeran is that a lot of streamers are like him, too where they're just "some guy who doesnt knowwww anything and we're here for a little escapism from this crazy old world." It's never a little escapism though, it's always been always escapism.
Snao 🔞39Denise Gough is like the opposite of Ed, and has given multiple interviews on the genocide and has developed a collegiate level knowledge of ongoing settler invasion of Palestine. There's nothing complicated about it.
Snao 🔞37Don't go around putting people on the spot though I'm not suggesting that, and especially not suggesting that there will be *any success* if you do that alone lol.
woot6Never trust a multi-millionaire with that bad of a haircut.
Xerot5Most others fear losing opportunities for standing for what they believe in, or convince themselves that it’s because people want escapism. But in a way, there’s a moral obligation where if one has a platform & can speak out against those atrocities, then they absolutely should.
Baku 💣💣2Music has always been political or about sending a message Using your platform to speak about things that are important to you And if you’re not doing that, then you‘re only in it for the money, it’s shallow, soulless Ed has always made highly marketable slop so none of this is a surprise to me
"I walked in and I felt so much love". *'cries'* "I really didn't even know if I'd ever get on a stage again, whether I even wanted to be an artist". Dammit, so close
Rohan Patel7'Twas a masterclass in faux-everyman narcissism. Crying on stage, apologising for his own apology made earlier in the concert, and then bragging that in spite of the week's events, ticket sales didn't drop... You couldn't script a more self-absorbed performance! 😒
Amuse.4His new hair plugs make him look like he’s wearing an orange swimming cap.
TSinghmorethanl2The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for a sad man to do nothing. The Switzerland of recording artists. Happy to store Nazi Gold. But the preferred coinage is 20 pieces of silver.
Ed Wilkinson1Well I for one am sending Ed Sheeran thoughts and prayers. He’s been through *a lot*.
RG13He’s just so brave. It’s people like him that give the children of Gaza strength.
Mama twins5“Dammit, so close” Maybe because, in the middle of all this pain, we simply hope that the world can feel what we live with every day. I live in Palestine, so I know how much the word “love” can mean at a time like this. Humanity begins when we see the person before the cause, and feel the pain
