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All supporting acts in Ed Sheeran's tour have dropped out, leaving him with no openers.
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sometimes your unwarranted hate accidentally becomes incredibly warranted and that feeling rules
Macklemore is the better act anyway. Most people probably would have cleared out after he finished
I never saw Ed Sheeran but I saw Mac and can confirm he puts on a hell of a show.
I never saw either.. But, I have a lot of interest seeing Macklemore.. I have NO interest seeing Ed Sheeran honestly.
Macklemore probably "speaks" to more people too. I didn't like his music when I first heard it, but, it grew on me fast
I saw him at the gorge around when he dropped Thrift Shop. I'd definitely see him again.
I've never had the opportunity to see Ed Sheeran, largely because I've never sought out the opportunity to see Ed Sheeran.
I wouldn't have thought their fan bases would overlap significantly.
Sheeran sings the hook on a ton of rap/ hiphop songs and both are basically pop music artists.
There is definitely an over lap between people who listen to Ed Sheeran and bump thrift shop.
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That's never stopped a concert gig before. Evanescence shouldn't have toured with Korn all the time, but they sure as shit did it successfully.
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i have never had any interest in seeing Ed Sheeran. Would be very interested in seeing Macklemore
So, to me, its weird that Macklemore was only an opening act. I suspect many people could name more Macklemore songs than Ed Sheeran ones, and I definitely hear macklemore on the radio more (on all stations) here in Australia
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Yeah, its like having Rammstein opening for your classic rock band.
I didn't actually give rammstein a proper chance until recently. Was connected to a customers system and they were blasting rammstein, which came to my computer. Actually didn't mind it. Added it to my library
Engel has my favorite whistle in a song ever, and Feuer Frei is a straight banger.
Also, they been a rock band for like 30 years. They are classic rock :-(
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What a crazy 24 hours to follow this. I have no interest in any of these artists but respect to all of them for standing up. I only wish everyone would go one step further and refuse to ever play at Krafts Gillette stadium going forward to really stick it to him.
the house band dropping is bigger than the openers dropping. dude just shat the bed and then rolled in it.
Yep, in reality “Ed Sheeran’s backup musicians” have a lot more to lose here than Sheeran himself does, and they’re doing the right thing. He should follow their lead.
yeah, Beoga's (the backup musicians/house band's maybe? i don't know the tour) statement is worth reading (sorry for the instagram link but i figure direct from the source is best). One wonders why he didn't consult his band.
Kid Rock or Boy George might be able to open for Ed, lol
Someone call Kanye West
Kanye is too busy trying to exploit North into a music career
how does that work? He's psycho, so his musical output is restrained by his insanity.
He always made the same slop, so I don't think he has a creative block, more of an organisational block, so why would trying to exploit his kid make him any more productive?
EDIT : To be clear, I am not saying "his musical output is caused by/limited by/due to" his insanity. I mean his mental illness makes his productivity less efficient to the point where there is less output.
So if he's being affected by mental health, it doesn't matter if it's his music or his kid's music, neither is getting completed because he's not going to get anything done, because mental health problems will impede his productivity.
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Nick Cave is staunchly pro-Israel, in the way edgy right-wing dudes are. Whether sufficiently staunchly to drop everything, fly to the US and open for Sheeran on his tour remains to be seen.
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HA! Fucking loser
Oh, Ed. Ed, Ed, Edward, Eddington. What have you done, fool?
Now if you play alone you'll be saying that genocide is ok, AND you've be knelt down to the billionaires.
If you get another backing band/openers then you'll be saying genocide is ok, AND you'll be actively helping the billionaires.
But if you now pull out of your own tour you'll be seen as you didn't want to pull out but were forced to by all the bad publicity about the genocide that you weren't bothered about in the first place.
Oh, Ed, you've painted yourself into a corner, you dumb fucking cunt. All you had to do was have a little bit of spine, but that was just too much to ask of you.
Right? As soon as they threatened it he had all the leverage in the world. He would have all the positive press of saying he was being forced to cancel because of them, and showed solidarity with his fellow musicians. Could have even offered additional concerts in friendlier areas, promoting other cities and getting more dollars there.
Instead he fucked himself. The only way to semi crawl back is to admit his mistake and stand in solidarity, that's the only move I see, and even then as you said he won't look strong but like a coward.
he remained silent, as to not upset KRAFT who is giving him all these gigs, and not to enitrely upset his fan base. hes gauging how to approach this without losing his sugar daddy privileges.
Meanwhile, Macklemore is coming out of this looking better than ever 😂
"Clean centrists" almost always means "fascist"
Free Palestine. If those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I’ve been on.”
Didn’t the billionaire class step up and say they would cancel all the venues if Macklemore wasn’t dropped?
Certainly has turned into a cluster fuck.
Ed should have called that bluff instead of giving in
He could have just booked a park and held an open air concert in those cities. He doesn’t need these venues as much as they need artists.
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Those content with the genocide deserve the same fate as the ones committing it. Fuck you Ed Sheeran.
God that feels good to read
Robert Kraft is a Zionist POS.
Ed is a ginger without a soul.
I wanna get it on the record that even most gingers are against genocide.
Ed just sucks.
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Reminder that Bob Kraft, a known friend of Epstien, paid to get his hog cranked by trafficked Asian women at a Florida rub ‘n tug joint.
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Kid Rock's available or the poop guy.
Good. Fuck em
including his "backup band"
Hopefully this recenters Zionist rule over Americans problem for mid terms.
why is his expression always like this 😟
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