Direct link to his statement, but it’s a bunch of photos of text on Instagram so I used the news article that sums it up as that’s more accessible: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdT-6KGAtuI/
all of his opener acts and his session band just left the tour btw. i feel like this is a huge unforced error from him, he’s not even following the money really cause opinion has changed so much in UK and worldwide last couple of years
I was fucking shocked tbh. I said before this happened that nobody would be stupid enough to do it but apparently he really is just that stupid. The amount of backlash it would provoke was obvious, not just from audiences but from other musicians too.
This completely changes everything he does from now on. Every conversation about Sheeran will involve someone mentioning Israel. All other artists will evaluate whether they want to be associated with that or not when considering work. It’s never going away.
Unbelievably stupid mistake.
bonus, anyone who does gets the taint and we know they aren’t principled, so if we didn’t know before that would out them
w those other guys i’ve never heard of
This is what I was thinking too. We are genuinely at the point with Israel where any competent rat is also jumping off the ship.
Well i would say he is standing up to his values, even if in a dishonest way. His values are however very bad.
Hahahaha get fucked Sheeran nobody will give a fuck about this statement.
“If we are only focused on shouting the loudest, nothing will ever change. There are different approaches to being an advocate for change. I have spent this week trying to build bridges, to find a solution, and was unfortunately unable to do so.”
“I know who I am, both as a person and as an artist, and those who know me by heart know my values too,” Ed concluded.
Ed “I don’t take sides” Sheeran’s values:
“I am not complicit”
this doesn’t work, you have to declare it
Please don’t write in the newspaper that I was complicit
His whole “no politics” thing is clearly BS if you make any effort to look at his past actions. Really actively making the choice to keep stepping on rakes.
Many such cases
The arrogance of this turd, even a moderately intelligent sociopath would understand this is the worse response you could come up with given public sentiment and the fact your peers dropped out to support Macklemore
These people really do live enclosed lives utterly detached from common humanity
How many zionazi weasels are whispering in his ear to make him think that was the appropriate response
Lol. Lmao, even.
I hope this tanks his career but Kanye is still out there making bank so I know it won’t.
Ed Sheeran’s next single “Heil Herzl”
It really won’t, radio and tv love him and will keep pushing him down everyone’s throat until they forget about this.
He’ll be joining Kanye on his Israel exclusive “Heil Hitler” tour soon enough.
*insert the pic of him in front of the ukronazi flag
‘Brown people are poltical’
Two ethnicities: White and POLITICAL
someone ought to remake the ‘our blessed homeland’ meme but with the two ethnicities/genders/sexual orientations/religions
“i will do whatever is expedient to get even more money” - rich white bozo
If your job is to entertain people, a thing usually called ‘being a professional entertainer,’ then it behooves you to develop a skill called “reading the room.”
Corporate sponsorship = not politics Speaking out about a genocide = politics
somehow.
It would have been better for him to STFU
Now he’s become a flack jacket for the Kraft billionare. What an stupid self own.
Mackelmore even gave Ed a shit ton of grace to try to save Ed from blowback.
Oh shut up, Ed Slava Baloney Sheeran
You literally support Banderites and their ilk in Ukraine, along with Ziofascists
“I do not use my professional platform for politics”
chud irish be like “defending genocide is not political”
ed sheeran is english
His grandma played the fiddle in an Irish band but she fell in love with an English man.
Fe fi fo fum
Liberal “calls for sanity” and insisting that they aren’t “political” doesn’t work anymore. You don’t get to claim to be “apolitical” and also be pro-genocide. Very funny to see all these scumbags have to deal with the consequences of their own actions, even as they insist that they are “good person” because uhh…vibes, not actions.
Umm… cancels Macklemore because of politics. Says he’s not using his professional platform for politics.
