I know nothing about him other than he makes some of the worst music humans have ever produced. But yeah fuck him!
Extremely common Ms Rachel W.
The current state of the culture wars are Ms. Rachel and Macklemore vs Ed Sheeran and Pink.
This is an actual timeline we live in
I haven’t heard anything about Pink in regards to it, what’s the story there?
pink put the issue into the mainstream when she reposted a StopAntisemitism story about this. then she “apologized” a week later which was even bigger news. she said something about how she’s scared of macklemore because she’s a “jewish mom” which i guess is the most anyone’s heard from her in years.
The only one I’m surprised by is macklemore
Really? I thought he pretty consistently was on the right side of things. But I don’t really pay attention.
Macklemore has such incredibly strong
energy, so you would also expect him to have a lot of those views.Mildly jarring that he is actually cool.
So he’s another case of “don’t judge a book by its cover”.
He has been, not just on Palestine. But a lot of people just know him as “The Thrift Shop guy”
Supporting clothing reuse in the fight against fast fashion? Again, extremely correct
He also had a pretty popular song in support of gay marriage in the early 2010s
The Heist is a killer album, that song aside, I haven’t listen to too much of his more recent stuff, the Hind’s Hall and Hind’s Hall 2 get played quite often. I’m waiting for him to team up with Lowkey for a song given Palestine is pretty important to him too.
I love that she’s calling him out like this, because it exposes just how spineless Ed Sheeran is. If Ms Rachel can condemn genocide anyone can.
All it takes is a little bit of character.
Ed’s demonstrated that money matters more to him than people’s lives. He doesn’t want to pick a side but he has, the side of money, or so he thinks… But being despised in the music industry relegates you to the grifter circuit.
Hey, yeah, but there’s a lot of money in the grifter game right now
Yeah the thing is that other artists who do give a shit will stop working with him, because the music scene itself is social and a lot of them don’t want to be disliked by other artists. You end up with it splitting into the grift circuit and the real cultural circuit.
I agree with you to an extent, I would just say that anyone who cared about any kind of credibility would not be going anywhere near that man.
Ed’s smart, he’s going for that anti-anti-Zionist market (CW:suicide)Edit: This is directed at Ed, not you, I just realized it may have come across that way. Sorry if it did
Oh, that anti-anti-zionist market? A lot of money in that right now. Such a smart marketing move.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Body shaming hurts far more people than the intended target, who it often doesn’t even hurt cause he won’t even see it. Do better.Apparently I don’t know what I’m talking about, I thought for sure this was a small dick joke.
Apparently I don’t know what I’m talking about, I thought for sure this was a small dick joke.
Sometimes a
cigarguitar is just acigarguitar.I think the joke is that he is bad at playing guitar. Because he only know how to use the first three frets
The joke has nothing to do with Ed’s body. The image is a joke referring to the fact that all of Ed’s songs use cowboy chords played on the first three frets. Therefore, he doesn’t need additional frets.
Edit: softened my tone to match the softened tone of OP. The people below writing paragraphs about it need to go touch grass (or read theory).
Ps. Telling someone to “do better” while also being flat out wrong has to be the most cringey thing that could happen in a thread and I couldn’t resist wagging my finger right back at the finger-waggy OP. Sue me.
I’ll do fretter
don’t apologize to them that’s just debasing yourself. no amount of being correct justified their tone to you
I’m not taking it too seriously. I didn’t mean it as an apology, just a joke (cause guitars have frets). As long as they’re not actually body shaming I’m not gonna worry abt it
Lol StitchyAndWitchy is the person apologizing for her unjustified tone going off bad assumptions about the meme’s intent
Do better (at discerning who you’re replying to) (tone: light-hearted ribbing)
Edit: unless you’re talking about borosilicate’s reply which at least one other user interpreted as overly defensive? But I honestly don’t see it. Stitchy’s original reply is way more rude/presumptive
Edit2: today I learned my client doesn’t tell me when comments have been edited
Orlando is right, borosilicate edited their comment. I don’t really care, I fixed my original comment and responded to them with a lighthearted joke, we’re in a thread about short
penisesguitar necks. As long as it wasn’t actually body shaming I’m not taking it seriously.I didn’t realize until just now that the Boost client doesn’t show when a comment has been edited
borosilicate edited it 3 hours ago to blunt the tone. it went along the lines of:
"overeaction much? [explains their spin on the joke]. get it yet? it’s #you who needs to do better"
neo-nazi denial energy, which honestly is corroborated by the edit. (the fucking markup isn’t working no matter what i do)
Yeah wtf if you edit your comment to soften the tone you need to include a note owning up to it
lmao you didn’t need to get so defensive with ur reply. probably coulda just typed one sentence. but you are a cringe poster. get it yet?
So it’s a fact that you are
CRINGE INCARNATE!!!
Are y’all reading a different reply than I am? To me it reads as straightforward and informative, not defensive at all
You are reading a different reply than they did. This whole thread is chaos incarnate with a hint of situational irony I love it.
Nothing makes me cringe harder than your tryhard cringe post. Cringe better.
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No, I don’t think that is the joke.
The joke is in fact that he only uses three chords. That image has been going around on guitar meme pages for years now.
That is the joke. Most of Ed’s songs are simple and made on 3 chords
genuinely, what else could it be? short neck joke? does he even have a short neck? nirvana guitar joke would be 2 frets bigger in the 90s (and 2 strings missing probably)
I seriously don’t get how people are misinterpreting this as a joke about his dick size. I’ve never even heard of guitar being used as a metaphor for the penis.
i’ve seen a Prince performance or two that seem to imply it
It looks like a small penis. And if you don’t know how to play guitar there would be no way to intuit any further context.
I think people are reading this as a small penis joke. That’s what I assumed before I saw the fret explanation.
thats kinda ok, even if guitar parts are called body/neck/head, not popular knowledge, but comrade from db provided that explanation (little bit high horsey, but still) and got ridiculed for it (!) (
to our glass brethren)In hindsight yeah, might have been a niche meme to post. I’d still have preferred if people had asked for context if they weren’t sure of the meaning rather than immediately jump to accusing me of being ignorant, but yeah. The situation has been resolved now and I’m going to move on.
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I always knew I hated Ed Sheeran’s music for a good reason
I always found his early stuff deeply creepy in a ‘nice guy - she should love me’ way. I’ve always thought his music seemed cynical. Doesn’t surprise me in the least that he’s a ghoul.
I’ve hated him since I found out he was a landlord. Now I have another reason to despise the guy.
oh he’s a landlord too? no wonder
And I always knew I’d have a reason to hate Ed Sheeran for more than just his music.
And I had no idea who Ed Sheeran was until this post, and I hate him, too.
That’s quite surprising, Shape of You was damn near inescapable in 2017
Somehow I managed to evade “Shape of You” in 2017 only to discover an Ethiopian instrumental folk-pop cover of it many years later, which I have always found to be the superior version.
Cēterum cēnseō iūs auctōris esse dēlendum.I’d like to share the excellent parody, molecular shape of you (YouTube).
And a yewtu.be link (this one wasn’t loading for me).
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Love seeing those iconic blue and white Lada taxis in the background.
Damn, could we make a car back in the day. I didn’t say we could make a good car, but we sure made a lot of them that last a very long time which is definitely worth something.
Also, the fact that Renault returned it’s stake in Lada to the Russian state government for a single ruble in 2022. Talk about an unforced error, sanctions really are a form of self-own.
also, renault selling off its control over the moskvich plant, lmao
though production is sadly still a joke compared to the azlk days.(((
I just gave that a listen, and yep, never heard it in my neck of the woods.
Ah well, you’re not missing much. He makes music for white people whose social media consists solely of Minion memes and their Starbucks order.
Speaking out AGAINST Genocide is ANTI SEMETIC!
-Robert Kraft who apparently thinks Hitler was Right!
Robert “Massage Parlor Handjob” Kraft
I thought that name sounded familiar.
Has literally hosted Kayne ‘Heil Hitler’ West concerts at his venues in the past
Did Ed Sheeran actually have any say in this? The thing I read said “the stakeholders” made this decision.
That being said, I’m not a fan of Sheeran’s silence.
I googled it, he owns his own label and regularly makes choices that most artists wouldn’t have the freedom to (e.g. releasing albums w/out any radio singles or MVs). He left Warner Music 15 years ago when he was rich enough to go independent
Sheeran is one of the wealthiest and most popular musicians in the world. He has the leverage to say “I’m not performing without him, eat dicks,” and he might have his shows cancelled but he’d be fine.
And more than likely that wouldn’t happen anyway. Those venues wouldn’t want to refund hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tickets. He’s a big enough name and financially secure enough that the venues need him more than he needs them.
it’s amazing to me his music ever got that big. who the hell is paying money to see ed sheeran?
I mean he can refuse to perform unless they also let Macklemore perform too, the fuck are they gonna do hold him at gunpoint on stage?
I mean it’s Israel
Purely in the realm of “UWU it’s not my fault! I’m just a soft centrist boy but I’m beholden to my stakeholders who constantly force me to do the thing I wanted to do.”
Yeah, he’s free to work with who he wants to, he chose money instead of murdered people
We have a few terms for people who place a monetary value for human lives, but I don’t want the admins to get in trouble for fedposting
You would think having all that money would make rich creatives more inclined to say “fuck it, I will survive the repercussions” and be willing to lose revenue streams, but no, they always behave like their bourgeois handlers.
