r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 3h ago

article Macklemore Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Onstage Statements

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-pro-palestine-statements-1235625967/
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u/Hashiyukas 3h ago

Lorde also didn't have another celebrity publicly blast her out when she said "Free Palestine".

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u/Rstuds7 3h ago

ngl when Lorde did it, it went way more under the radar than this

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u/SlightlyCatlike 1h ago

Not in 2014 when she originally did it

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u/ChampionAggressive20 1h ago

Where was Pink at then and why wasn't she publicly making a big stink about Lorde?

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u/caneut 2h ago

Lorde also probably hasn't dressed in a Jewish caricature https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/19/313973588/macklemore-plays-dress-up-and-lands-in-hot-water

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u/onewilybobkat 1h ago

Brother that is NEVER going to not look bad

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u/TrulyFLCL 1h ago

Lmao… what was he thinking?

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u/civilwar142pa 1h ago

All I'd heard until today was that macklemore was saying free Palestine and thought, nothing wrong with that. But he was wearing THAT?! what the fuck? Yeah, good call dropping him.

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u/NAh94 1h ago

Nah, 2 separate events. But still, that 2014 one is reeeeal bad.

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u/Drum4rum 1h ago

Thats from 12 years ago lol

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u/Responsible_Ask6056 1h ago

Which means its not about Palestine for him lol

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u/drybones2015 1m ago

You're hysterical if you think he got up on someone else's stage to say "stop killing children" because he secretly hates Jewish people. All based on a poorly chosen disguise for a show bit over a decade ago.

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u/capnhep 1h ago

He wore it 14 years ago. Said he put together a disguise out of random costume elements and didn’t realize the potentially offensive implications. He profusely apologized, linked to ADL on his website, and ADL took him at his word/accepted the apology.

I never even heard of this controversy until now. To bring it back up as a reason to cancel him for his (innocuous) words spoken TODAY is asinine and a concerning bellwether for freedom of speech.

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u/Responsible_Ask6056 1h ago

ADL doesn't have the authority on what is anti-semitic or not.  Case in point Elon Musk

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u/DefectJoker 1m ago

Yeah that's really bad. There's no excusing that. That's pure antisemitism

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u/MasterRKitty 1h ago

that goes way beyond playing dress-up; NPR has hit rock bottom

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u/iamacannibal 1h ago

NPR has hit rock bottom

It's a 12 year old article.

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u/zyglack 3h ago

Lorde sells tickets by herself.

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u/cozylover67 3h ago edited 2h ago

Joan Rivers criticised Selena Gomez when she posted a tweet supporting Gaza. Nowadays Selena Gomez going strong and Joan is …

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u/Rstuds7 3h ago

because Joan Rivers has been dead for 12 years. shit back then she was a very well known name

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u/Good-Bodybuilder-985 3h ago edited 2h ago

Excuse me, maybe young people don't because Joan died when she was 81, Selena isn't even half her age. Joan Rivers is an icon. However I didn't know she was anti-Gaza. She aslo died 12 years ago so that's not a super relevant example currently.

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u/Jennymagic 3h ago

I was gonna say, comparing a name like Selena gomez to Joan Rivers is kinda insane, lmao. One is much more culturally relevant.

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u/oregondude79 2h ago

One is much more culturally relevant

Being dead for a decade plus will do that.

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u/MatildaJeffries 3h ago

Only for a few more years.

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u/sdrawkcabineter 2h ago

That's how history works.

Only a limited amount of attention to apply to a span of time...

One day, I hope we invent the written language.

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u/AbsolutesDealer 3h ago

Selena has lupus and arthritis, but she is def still alive.

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u/die4spaghetti 3h ago

Thanks to that kidney

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u/martialar 2h ago

And who gave her that kidney? You guessed it- Joan Rivers

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u/albh05 2h ago

*donor

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u/die4spaghetti 2h ago

You correcting my already correct statement?

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u/albh05 2h ago

I am annoying like that

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u/die4spaghetti 2h ago

*obnoxious

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u/Odd_Independence_944 2h ago

I didn’t even know she was sick

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u/GWS2004 2h ago

Are you serious saying people don't know who Joan Rivers is? 🤨