• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    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?”

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      4 days ago

      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

  • Glytch@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

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

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    3 days ago

    Hate the fact Ed gets all the shit for not showing the spine, while little to no consequence for Robert Kraft, apparently the man who blackmailed Ed. Like okay, you can blame a multi millionaire for choosing money over humanitarian cause, but are you guys seriously going to drag him through the dirt while the actual culprit sits upon his billion dollar stash? Like wtf, this guy literally cornered ed, and all that happens to him is people are reminded he’s in Epstein files. That’s genuinely unfair.

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’m looking forward to removing his cameo from GoT. It won’t fix the series but it’ll make the last seasons slightly better.