I said we shouldn’t call him an artist, but the dude managed to fake cry without using the word ‘genocide’, so at least he’s a pretty good actor.
Ed Sheeran’s latest foot in the mouth moment…
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kingofras@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ugh stupid tangent incoming, did you see the movie Yesterday where a struggling singer/ songwriter crosses into an alternate universe and he’s the only one on the planet who remembers the Beatles? And becomes an overnight sensation from recording Beatles songs that no one’s ever heard before. And then, as conclusive proof of his success, Ed Sheeran playing himself approves of his supposed genius, because I guess Ed sheeran is the songwriting successor to the Beatles.
It’s already a terrible movie before Ed Sheeran appears, it’s just the most arrogant job a pop star could take. Supposedly Chris Martin turned the role down, I guess because he had some modicum of self awareness. Contrast to Ariana Grande playing a delightfully self deprecating satire of herself in Don’t Look Up, so it is possible to acknowledge one’s own celebrity in a cameo film role without being insufferably self aggrandizing.
I don’t really have a point beyond Ed Sheeran’s unlikability. His spinelessness and immorality is a separate issue.
thunder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Speaking of the Beatles, I learned today they refused to play in front of segregated audiences in the South during the Civil Rights Era and the promoters and venue owners backed down. Amazing the power you have when your name is on the marquee.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unrelated: It I could do a Yesterday scenario, I would choose to be the only one who remembers The Offspring, and then I would record and copyright all of their songs and never release them to spare the world that crappy garbage.
kn33@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that what Yesterday was? I assumed it was just your basic biopic.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Someone should ask him on live whether it is Israel that is killing kids in Gaza and watch him squirm his way out of it.
Felis_Catus_Domesticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If any of those blacklist stadiums get a dime of taxpayer money, it needs to be returned, immediately and with interest.
Felis_Catus_Domesticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Money is speech, according to the Supreme Court in the USA.
Where do you think Sheeran earned most of those millions? UK or USA?
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Felis_Catus_Domesticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tbf it’s more like a slap in the wrist than gun.
MBech@feddit.dk 3 weeks ago
But instead of a gun, he’s holding a bag of money. It must be really hard for a grammy award winning musician who is only worth hundreds of millions of dollars, who just wants to sell his music to everyone, including genocidal pieces of shit.
This is about er rich person, trying to play both sides, in a game of genocide. He doesn’t deserve your sympathy. He cries on stage, because he wasn’t succesful, not because he’s sorry.
Aarrodri@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
👍🏼 agreed
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel that maybe Kraft has something on him? I have no proof, and maybe Ed really is just a shit greedy fuck.
And my mind is having a field day thinking about the outrageous things Ed is afraid will get out.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It’s not that complicated really. Ed Sheeran is a spineless coward, and he doesn’t want to jeoparidize the career he’s built by being the male equivalent of Taylor Swift. He just doesn’t have any moral fibre.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
he can blacklist ed shareen from ever playing a stadium which can hurt him like it did with macklemore(initially)
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
This is about a successful musician, taking no sides, not wanting anything to do with politics, who republicans successfully vilified and now every lefting is at his throat. Why is it so evil to not do politics? He’s not harming anyone.
Dude grew up in a hardcore white family where he had no proper childhood and was basically forced to keep studying and playing music. People like that are not happy, trust me. RIP Avicii.
Or maybe, just maybe, dude is tired of all this shit, wants to just do his job, but ends up being the center of one of the biggest celebrity dramas of 2026
bampop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s impossible to “not do politics”, that’s a bullshit position which just means taking whichever political decision is easier and more self serving. Sheeran chose to comply with demands to deplatform one of his supporting acts, to serve zionist interests. There was no apolitical decision to be made. A choice not to act is still a choice. He had to pick a side and he picked the genocidal one.
Don’t get me wrong, I think what he did was dumb and selfish rather than deliberately evil, and I can sympathize with that to a degree. He just wanted to maintain a comfortable status quo. But we should recognize that inaction in the face of injustice makes us all complicit, and there are times when that inaction is simply unacceptable.
Avicenna@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Yeah no, you spend a decade making music about peace and making tons of money out of it. And then at a time when you have enough financial security and popularity you don’t speak against child murderers? You don’t even support your fellow artists who do? Then fuck off with love and peace, just go do country music about your problematic childhood or something. People in worse conditions have had their lives destroyed by zionist lobies because they have spoken against Israel. I don’t expect everyone to be that brave, but if you have built a sphere of influence, fame and lots of money, I would expect you to give back to the community who gave you all these.
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No such thing, you’re just taking the oppressor’s side.
teslekova@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Someone else who didn’t do politics: Werner Von Braun. Slaves, death camps, American military funding, it was all the same to him as long as the rockets went up.
Ed Sheeran can get fucked, and so can you.
robomuffin79@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You simply don’t understand that Israel relies on famous people whitewashing its image. Musicians, actors, artists, comedians etc. all these people are essential to help Israel falsely portray itself as a beacon of light and freedom. As a perpetual victim. As a defender of minority rights. Once artists with a large public following begin to speak out, it knocks huge chunks out of the mask Israel has built for itself. That is why it relies on the likes of spineless people like Sheeran to play music that is ‘apolitical’. If he wanted to simply play inoffensive music, he should have continued to busk on the London Underground. Honest musicians know they have a stage to change the world for the better. British musicians have long done this, especially the politically conscious bands of eighties.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
after seeing kraft getting other football owners to blacklist him, he only came out because he was afraid of getting blacklisted himself. even then hes trying to not bite krafts hand.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did you miss the part where he’s already worth hundreds of millions of dollars? Ed Sheeran could play in pubs for the rest of his life and never have to worry about a thing. He’s just being greedy and self-serving.