There are other venues in this world, besides Kraft-owned venues…
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Money is speech, according to the Supreme Court in the USA.
Where do you think Sheeran earned most of those millions? UK or USA?
Is it shitty and wrong to practice censorship in the way that Kraft is doing it? Yes. Is it perfectly legal? also Yes.
Too many words have been spent on this idiotic nothing-burger of a story.
in 5 minutes the muddled minds of the internet will all move on to the next rage-bait story that the press presents.
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If any of those blacklist stadiums get a dime of taxpayer money, it needs to be returned, immediately and with interest.
Tbf it’s more like a potential slap in the wrist than gun.
I said we shouldn’t call him an artist, but the dude managed to fake cry without using the word ‘genocide’, so at least he’s a pretty good actor.
Ugh stupid tangent incoming, did you see the movie Yesterday where a struggling singer/ songwriter crosses into an alternate universe and he’s the only one on the planet who remembers the Beatles? And becomes an overnight sensation from recording Beatles songs that no one’s ever heard before. And then, as conclusive proof of his success, Ed Sheeran playing himself approves of his supposed genius, because I guess Ed sheeran is the songwriting successor to the Beatles.
It’s already a terrible movie before Ed Sheeran appears, it’s just the most arrogant job a pop star could take. Supposedly Chris Martin turned the role down, I guess because he had some modicum of self awareness. Contrast to Ariana Grande playing a delightfully self deprecating satire of herself in Don’t Look Up, so it is possible to acknowledge one’s own celebrity in a cameo film role without being insufferably self aggrandizing.
I don’t really have a point beyond Ed Sheeran’s unlikability. His spinelessness and immorality is a separate issue.
Speaking of the Beatles, I learned today they refused to play in front of segregated audiences in the South during the Civil Rights Era and the promoters and venue owners backed down. Amazing the power you have when your name is on the marquee.
This is awesome. TIL too.
Unrelated: If I could do a Yesterday scenario, I would choose to be the only one who remembers The Offspring, and then I would record and copyright all of their songs and never release them to spare the world that crappy garbage.
Haters gonna hate hate hate hate.
Uh huh! Uh huh!
Good tangent. Good job.
Thanks.
Is that what Yesterday was? I assumed it was just your basic biopic.
It’s delightful, and the covers are fantastic.
Agree.
Nope, that’s what it is.
