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Sheeran puts out garbage statement: "I am not complicit" - "I do not use my professional platform for politics" (archive.is)
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Direct link to his statement, but it's a bunch of photos of text on Instagram so I used the news article that sums it up as that's more accessible: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdT-6KGAtuI/

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[–] 78 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

all of his opener acts and his session band just left the tour btw. i feel like this is a huge unforced error from him, he's not even following the money really cause opinion has changed so much in UK and worldwide last couple of years

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  • [–] 20 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    I was fucking shocked tbh. I said before this happened that nobody would be stupid enough to do it but apparently he really is just that stupid. The amount of backlash it would provoke was obvious, not just from audiences but from other musicians too.

    This completely changes everything he does from now on. Every conversation about Sheeran will involve someone mentioning Israel. All other artists will evaluate whether they want to be associated with that or not when considering work. It's never going away.

    Unbelievably stupid mistake.

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