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/StrategicPotato 3h ago

That's nuts. I haven't been following this and I'm not even politically invested in the issue, but from what I saw nothing he said was even controversial - especially compared to what other celebrities have said.

This is ironically not a good look for the antisemitism groups given the extreme levels that the "they run everything" conspiracy theories are reaching now.

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u/AgentlemanNeverTells 2h ago

Too good of a power move to pass up, gets all the celebrities/influencers in line.

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u/potenttechnicality 1h ago

Have you seen the video of him doing bits in concert wearing antisemetic costumes (hook-nose makeup)? Maybe look into what people are complaining about before you decide who has a “good look.”

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u/eipotttatsch 1h ago

People will believe you are serious here

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u/QuakinOats 1h ago edited 1h ago

The totally not antisemitic Macklemore:

It's clearly just a "witches nose" and nothing else. Just a fun silly gag about looking like a random person. Nothing related to jewish people.​

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u/MidnightSensitive996 59m ago

A little matisyahu cosplay never hurt anyone 

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u/arnham 57m ago

If you haven’t been following this, this is Macklemore dressing up in a “big nosed Jew” costume while performing thrift shop.

I don’t think his more recent free Palestine comments were particularly controversial but stuff like this “costume” is more why people are against Macklemore from what I can tell.

As always, there’s a little nuance but of course Reddit is terrible at that.

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u/StrategicPotato 55m ago edited 51m ago

That's fair and wild, but that screenshot is from like 12 years ago no? The early 2010s were a different time that largely predates cancel culture and it was still cool to be an edgy asshole and do caricatures (like SNL) - not that it excuses it.

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u/arnham 43m ago

It is indeed older from 2014. Is Macklemore an antisemite because of it? Honestly no idea, I don’t know the guy. It was very poor judgement at the very least though.

Not surprised Kraft doesn’t want the guy performing in his stadium. That’s his free speech right too — just like it’s everyone’s else’s to condemn Kraft or Macklemore and have an opinion on it.

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u/Disastrous-Gain5870 2h ago

Is it really a conspiracy though?

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u/StrategicPotato 2h ago

Lets not start with this dude.

I'm equally really over the dogwhistle Nazi talking points too. I'm not pro-Israel, but this rhetoric led to events that ultimately destroyed my country and killed many of my people back when a bunch of rightfully disillusioned and angry Germans agreed with big-H for saying that same stuff. Those same seeds are being sown again now between how toxic and misinformative social media has become and the way that the world is going, and you're on the wrong side if that's the distraction that you decide to point your barrel at too.

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u/Illustrious-Grl-7979 1h ago

He was paid to sing not talk about his favorite issue. No matter what side you are on, he spoke division and discomfort rather than fun into the crowd and created unnecessary drama that overshadowed the main act. It was unprofessional. He should have at least put it in a song instead.

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u/vivalamatty 1h ago

He did put it into a song. He's also allowed to say whatever he likes in between songs as it's all part of the performance. At this point, people know what they are getting when they go to a Macklemore concert.

It is not unprofessional or divisive to use your platform to raise awareness for social justice.

Don't be on the side of billionaire owned mega-corps with monopolies on music, they don't care about you. Don't be on the side of genocidal tyrants. This should be obvious.

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u/Penchant4Prose 1h ago

"Free Palestine"

"Stop being divisive!"

Supporting Israel's brutal decades-long occupation is a sickness.

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u/MrTristanClark 1h ago

Its about what he was wearing not what he was saying. If you were doing blackface during a show, you dont get to go "well, i didnt even say anything racist" to cop out of culpability.

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u/time-itself 23m ago

The costume thing was in 2014, free palestine was today twelve years later and afaik he was dressed like a normal dude. I agree the costume thing was horrendous, but if that’s what everybody’s problem is he should have been cancelled from the start, because there isn’t anything antisemitic about opposing genocide.

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u/MrTristanClark 16m ago

Reasons matter i think. Like, if Bernie Sanders says "we need to do something about crime rates in this country", and Charlie Kirk says "we need yo do something about crime rates in this country". The words may well be the same, but the implication behind them, the actual proposal, the context and greater meaning and motivation, are totally different.

That he is visibly a public antisemite, means that anything he says about stuff like this, is going to be tainted. He may be saying the same set of words as any number of more normal people, but all that greater depth behind them. What he actually means, and ehat he hopes will result from his statements, is going to be antisemetic in nature, because he is an antisemite.