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[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

A shame it's taken this long to get his "music" off the airwaves. It should have happened years ago.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I know exactly one 2012 song from Macklemore and one 2017 song from Ed Sheeran. And that is the extent of my expertise on their biographies.

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 26 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I feel a tiny sorry for Ed (not that a guy who has an estimated £400 million net worth needs my sympathy), but he's just some ~~poor~~ rich schlub who's been planning to tour around a bit, play some uncontroversial songs, earn another hundred million, mind his own business and then... kapow!... he's front and centre in a fight that's he's clearly ill-equiped to even interact with.

"Whuh? I just wanted to play some bland music and earn enough money to buy myself a ginger island. What the flip is going on?"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

kapow!.. he’s front and centre in a fight that’s he’s clearly ill-equiped to even interact with.

You say that like artists - especially Irish artists - haven't been front and center on agitating against the Palestinian Genocide for years now.

He organized tour full of pro-Palestinian activists, ffs. Mackelmore isn't some new figure, either. Jumping on popular leftist initiatives is kinda his brand.

If Sheeren had formed a band with Greenpeace, would he be blindsided when they started talking about the environment?

Like, I'm half inclined to give him some credit just for putting this thing together. Better to have it implode on you than to never tour at all.

Did Ed suicide bomb his career in the name of Palestine? Maybe

[–] Colalextrast@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm reading either comment wrong, but I think the person you're replying to was being ironic. Perhaps.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Ah, I've seen this take posted a few times sincerely.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 69 points 15 hours ago

Everything I've ever learned about Ed Sheeran has been against my will.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 28 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I couldn't name a single song by this guy.

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

He did that one banger in Game of Thrones but I don't know if it had a name. It was new.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

You’d recognize them if you heard them. They were ubiquitous on the radio 5-10 years ago

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 12 hours ago

That sounds like about the length of time I haven't listened to the radio because I've had a personal device that can either hold or steam music from...

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 11 points 15 hours ago

They sounded AI-generated before AI music was a thing.

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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

There's that Pokemon song

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 16 hours ago

I can name exactly one song, and one song only by the dude; and I never actually listened to the song. (Shape of You).

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm old but Ed Sheeran has been around long enough and is big enough for at least one of his songs to float into the pop culture reflecting pool so I'd at least recognize a chorus or a lyric or two, but nothing seems to have stuck. Again, I'm old and don't listen to new music anymore. I find musical nuggets in the past now, before I was born. Louis Prima rocks! Will Ed's music stand the test of time?

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

I have a burning hatred for "pop" so I'm very biased on this, but, no. All his songs I've been exposed to (and right now I can only think of "shape of you", after looking for track names) are, in my opinion, forgettable at best.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 40 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

"removed from the airways" at one radio station in Ireland

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

better than none, hopefully the first of many

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

They were never included in my personal library and they never will.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 293 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (68 children)

Kraft said in a statement on Instagram: “I have dedicated much of my life to building bridges between all people. I believe deeply that all lives are worth protecting.

That's like saying 'all lives matter' in response to the Black Lives Matter movement; it's disrespectful of the point being made.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago

Building bridges between the fascists and everyone else, so the fascists can do their thing

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[–] HailSeitan@lemmy.world 29 points 20 hours ago

This is the way.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago

Good, Macklemore makes better music anyway

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 94 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (29 children)

I’m starting to get annoyed that Sheeran is getting all the hate, save an equal amount for kraft, people..

Update- folks, this was a joke. I’m not defending Sheeran here, merely also expressing my distaste for the rest of the players in this horrible situation.

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

He's played at private events for Kraft and his agency manager was friends with Epstein & Ghislain

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, Sheeran did some shit too. They have video or pictures on him. That's why he folded so fast.

[–] SalamiDommie@lemmus.org 1 points 10 hours ago

People here aren't smart enough to figure out what you were saying.

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine getting cancelled in 2026 for being a billionaire's bitch.

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