don’t love the ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ narrative forming around ed sheeran’s show tonight bc he…didn’t DO anything.
he centred his own fear of being harmed, he talked about how the world apparently hates him and how brave his new band is for joining him.
A lot more people need to see this clip and how fucking self-victimising Ed Sheeran is. I am in shock how he constantly makes it about him. Macklemore was so vindicated for saying, he is not a victim, Ed is not a victim, and yet here he comes on the victim train. Fuck this loser.
“You really find out who your friends are” I’m sure that’s exactly what Macklemore felt when you cut him off after 13 years of friendship. This shows he doesn’t actually understand what the backlash was about and he doesn’t understand why his band and the other acts felt so strongly about what happened. He sees himself as the victim here. It’s also why he didn’t make any sort of apology because he isn’t sorry.
- reads from teleprompter
- immediately starts with October 7th
- still won’t call it a genocide
- says he doesn’t know enough about what’s happening
- makes no apology to Macklemore or addresses dropping him from the tour
- doesn’t mention where his donation will be going to
- doesn’t encourage anyone to donate
- won’t say Israel is the reason Gaza is suffering
- won’t say free Palestine
- only cries when he sees people showed up to the concert because that’s what he cares more about.
Fuck him.
Left: Ed Sheeran on Instagram, "There is a reason I don't use my professional platform for politics"
Right: Except that time Ed Sheeran shot a music video in Kyiv, then did a concert for Ukraine, because, "I just wanted to so something, rather than not do anything"
My view follows.
O que está a acontecer na Palestina é um genocídio e não um conflito, como o Ed disse. É uma enorme desilusão saber que um artista que admiro há 15 anos optou por ficar neutro e não teve a coragem de usar a sua plataforma como o Macklemore e os restantes opening acts o fizeram.
i just don’t understand how you’re gonna bring two pro-palestine acts on tour with you and your pro-palestine manager and then think you won’t have to speak on it or can get away with being “neutral” the brain cells were not working
Ustedes cancelan a Ed Sheeran con gusto porque ya lo odiaban, yo ando re triste porque el hombre por el que acampé, dormí en la calle y me desmayé a medio concierto resultó un pusilánime. Qué pesar.