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Ed Sheeran tour drops Macklemore after his onstage support for Palestine
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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2026
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I'm willing to bet Sheeran had very little to say about this, in my limited understanding of how these things work it was negotiations between touring company agents, insurance and venues.
This says a lot more about the capture of American politics by supposedly non-political organisations than it says anything about Ed Sheeran's politics or his music.
Edit: didn't read the article properly, it clearly states that Sheeran had a role in this but recognises that he was put in a position of being pressured into a decision. If he had more of a backbone, he might've been willng to push back harder even of it meant putting the tour dates at risk.
Macklemore posted a statement on this that is nuanced in that it calls Ed a close and valued friend and shows a lot of understanding for exactly this dynamic (it's primarily the venues), while also making it very clear that Ed Sheeran considers himself "apolitical", which means aligning yourself with the status quo and siding with the oppressor, and that for Macklemore himself it's a matter of duty to use his platform to not do that.
I don't really believe anyone is "apolitical". You can choose to distance a yourself from politics, but sometimes it comes to you. Sheeran is in that second situation.
It shouldn't be hard for him to take a milquetoast "all loss of life is tragic" position at the very least.
Ed Sheeran can afford the luxury of being "apolitical"