r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Sep 14 '26
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-1235625967/4.0k
u/RainForestBathing Sep 14 '26
We really need this live Nation Ticketmaster Monopoly to be broken up
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u/agodrevealed Sep 14 '26
That won't happen. Look how convenient a monopoly is in enforcing compliance with evil.
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u/InadequateUsername Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
America just contracts out their dictatorship to Private companies while the government gets to play democratic.
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u/Biosterous Sep 14 '26
Fascism by its nature requires the cooperation of monopolies with the state.
Mussolini was well supported by Italian industrialists, without their support the March on Rome would have been a spectacular failure. Instead they pressured the king to capitulate to Mussolini's demands.
The Nazi party was intricately tied into major German companies and provided many of them with slave labour (VW, etc) or slaves to kill during human trials (Bauer). Large industrialists were early supporters of Hitler.
Look at the absolute control exhibited by Samsung and other massive companies in South Korea both during their military dictatorships and current democracy.
I'm not as familiar with Spain and Portugal's fascist governments but I have no reason to believe they were any different.
Fascism requires the cooperation of massive monopolies, and they profit from the state maintaining their monopoly status. Media monopolies are especially important, but as you can see here monopolies have a way of enforcing the state's will.
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u/DesireeThymes Sep 14 '26
Why does it feel like Israel controls so many Industries in the US?
Like a speech about Palestine results in all venues dropping the entire concert?!
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u/idislikemostofyu Sep 14 '26
Robert Kraft is pro-Israel and owns Gillette Stadium. He rallied his fellow owners into stopping something he didn't personally like.
These owners are petty as shit. James Dolan uses facial recognition and bans whoever he doesn't like.
So, I don't think this is some insidious plot by Israel. Just a dude that fucking hates pro-Palestinian people with the reach to make a difference about the issue. Whereas most of us can just post stuff online.
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u/astronautdinosaur Sep 14 '26
I don’t disagree, but based on the article I’m not seeing a connection
> While two of those stadiums are privately owned — Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough — the rest are owned and, in many cases, operated by cities, states, or other government entities, potentially raising First Amendment issues if the venues barred Macklemore over his statements.
Seems more to do with pro-Israel groups:
> This spurred much criticism and backlash from pro-Israel groups. StopAntisemitism accused the rapper of ambushing fans with “anti-Israel propaganda” in an Instagram post, which the pop singer Pink amplified.
And this:
> Additionally, the Israeli American Council launched a petitiondemanding Sheeran remove Macklemore from the rest of the tour…
Sounds like this guy Robert Kraft:
> In a statement shared on Instagram, Macklemore claimed he was dropped from the tour after Robert Kraft — the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots and Gillette Stadium — mounted a pressure campaign against Sheeran.
Has a tons of business ties to Israel. So not sure what live nation/ticketmaster have to do with this
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u/PiaJr Sep 14 '26
Thank you for sharing accurate information. It is rarely as clear as it is here that people don't read the article. Headline + Personal Beliefs are all people need to feel like they have enough to publicly speak on a topic. It's frustrating...
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u/contattomarketing Sep 14 '26
Trump intervened with the DOJ to get them to settle the antitrust case instead of going to trial, which allowed LiveNation to keep Ticketmaster without major penalties.
This came after their CEO, Michael Rapino, met with Trump at the WH so Trump could get clarity on booking and operations for the Kennedy Center.
Directly after the meeting, Trump called the DOJ.
Hopefully that explains the thread running through all of this.
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u/hudson27 Sep 14 '26
I don't know if folks are putting all the pieces together on this one, probably because of the vague headline.
Macklemore spoke out about the genocide currently being committed by Israel, that's why he's in trouble. The venue's shouldn't give a damn, nor should LiveNation, nor should Trump. This is how far Israeli influence makes it in the American entertainment industry; they hear about some rapper making a fuss, they call the Prez, who calls the CEO of LiveNation, who has monopolized every venue and concert in the country, and pulls him from the bill.
Every company is compromised, I'll me lucky if Reddit even lets me post this with all the hot-button keywords I just dropped, free speech be damned
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u/esopillar34 Sep 14 '26
According to Macklemore, it was Robert Kraft who pulled the trigger. He got a bunch of the remaining stadium owners to put out the threat
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u/vivalamatty Sep 14 '26
A couple of gems from Kraft's Wikipedia page:
"In 2026, it was revealed that Kraft had kept a relationship with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and that Epstein had recommended Kraft use his lawyer to defeat the charges"
"Kraft has had a longtime friendship with Donald Trump that dates back to the 1990s.\148]) In 2017, he donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration day celebrations.\149]) Kraft had made donations to Trump's presidential campaign as well...Trump named Kraft's wife, Dana Blumberg, to the board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Blumberg was appointed to replace Carlos Elizondo on the board as part of a greater effort by Trump to purge members of the board and exert control over it.\144])\153])\154])"
"In June 2019, Kraft received Israel's Genesis Prize. While at the event in Jerusalem, Kraft pledged $20 million to establish a foundation that will fight antisemitism and combat the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel"
"In April 2024, during the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University, Kraft stopped funding the university "over the treatment of Jewish students and faculty during pro-Palestinian protests at the campus", citing "virulent hate."
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u/Otterhendrix Sep 14 '26
Don’t forget this one as well!
“Since 2017, Robert Kraft has owned two Boeing 767 private jets used by the New England Patriots. [114 ] As of June 2022, one of these jets had been used for at least 3 flights deporting migrants from the United States to Honduras.”
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u/Soup-Wizard Sep 14 '26
Gillette Stadium was the venue I heard mentioned, owned by Kraft.
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u/esopillar34 Sep 14 '26
On his IG post he said Kraft/Gillette was the first, but also Kraft contacted other owners and got them to go along with it
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u/jrolls81 Sep 14 '26
Look up Blue SquareAlliance Against Hate. It’s a non profit fighting against “anti-semitism” based out of Gillette stadium. They have a high tech command center there that monitors online activity for “anti-semitism”.
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u/MrsBridgerton Sep 14 '26
Kraft? The one involved with human trafficking. Well, of course.
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u/TheStonedVampire Sep 14 '26
Same venues that allow people like Kayne, Chris Brown and Travis Scott to play mind you.
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u/UnderWhlming Sep 15 '26
crazy how racists, chaos inciters, and women beaters get shows there but "free Palestine" is where they draw the line. Give me a break
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u/HowlingHipster Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
Curious why artists like Lorde were saying the same thing at their shows with no backlash but Macklemore is the straw that broke the camel's back
ETA: Okay, I've seen the picture of him in the costume and, yeah, yikes. Don't need to see more of it in the replies.
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u/WildPotato0 Sep 14 '26
I think Lorde has a veeeery different fanbase than Ed Sheeran.
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u/way2lazy2care Sep 14 '26
People will still go to an ED Sheeran concert with a different opener. People won't go to a Lorde concert without Lorde. Money talks.
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u/JacksGallbladder Sep 14 '26
Ed Sheeran is also "normie music" and a lot of those ticket sales are probably from people who froth violently when "free" and "Palestine" show up in a sentence together.
I dont think Lorde has that kind of fan base
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u/Neat_On_The_Rocks Sep 14 '26
Lorde is huge with lgbt adjacent crowds and generally left for sure.
That said Ed Sheeran is definitely big in “corporate liberal” spaces and not maga ones. Really interesting
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u/peepsieee Sep 14 '26
Coldplay is also decidedly "normie music" and yet Chris Martin has been openly pro-Palestine for years now 🤷♂️
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u/NGS_King Sep 14 '26
He’s also very hippie dippie “peace and love, we all bleed red” which is maybe the least controversial way to be pro-Palestine. You’d have to be incredibly hawkish to oppose Coldplay for their political stance there.
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u/Call_Me_ZG Sep 14 '26
Ms Rachel was the least controversial way to be pro palestine but we apparently live in a world where saying "dont kill children" is controversial and people went after her
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u/darkdetective Sep 14 '26
Went to see lorde last month and her fan base had lots of LGBT people (me included) and ethnicities. Ed Sheeran crowds I assume are very much Facebook mums with their kids, but I might be wrong.
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u/jonnysomething Sep 14 '26
I went to see her like 6 months ago and it was honestly one of the best shows I’ve seen live. I was shook that I almost didn’t go.
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u/Poonurse13 Sep 14 '26
Even though I agree with this. I think it has more to do with the shareholders and owners of the venues AND their political stances.
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u/Hashiyukas Sep 14 '26
Lorde also didn't have another celebrity publicly blast her out when she said "Free Palestine".
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u/Rstuds7 Sep 14 '26
ngl when Lorde did it, it went way more under the radar than this
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u/Organic-Vermicelli47 Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
Yeah I saw Hozier twice on his last tour and he talked about Palestine, workers rights, unions, how the US labor reform* inspired the Irish work reform and allowed him to have a better childhood, had a trans pride and Palestine flag and spoke for literally 10 minutes about these issues which was refreshing
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Sep 14 '26
Good luck getting an Irishman to not voice support for Palestine!
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u/Hesitation-Marx Sep 14 '26
I knew I liked him
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u/Organic-Vermicelli47 Sep 14 '26
He is very outspoken! He has two very openly anti war songs on his most recent album: Nobody's Soldier and Eat Your Young. During Eat your young, he played a montage of the current destruction that will affect ours and the next generation- war, deforestation, hunger, etc had a counter that showed Lockheed martin profits from war ticking up during the song
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u/HunchbackNostradamus Sep 14 '26
I’m guessing because it didn’t make the news and didn’t piss off anyone enough?
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u/One_Illustrator8877 Sep 14 '26
That picture was from like 12 or 14 years ago and he apologized and the ADL accepted his apology. Everybody forgot about it, but only bring it up now because they need something to silence him about now. Its really grasping for straws.
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u/ballbeard Sep 14 '26
I'm not defending the picture at all, but that happened in 2014, it has absolutely nothing to do with the current situation.
It would be like if Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau break up and people tried to blame it on Justin's brownface costume from 2001
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u/areraswen If you like women, don't make a bike from 'em. Sep 14 '26
For what it's worth that costume was from 2014 and he has since apologized for it. The anti defamation league publicly accepted his apology at the time.
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u/sinkingcar Sep 14 '26
What he said: “I believe that every human being walking this earth deserves the exact same freedom, to know safety and peace before knowing the sounds of violence, and to know the sound of laughter on the playground before planes and bombs.”
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u/N3WG4M3PLVS Sep 14 '26
What an awful and dangerous thing to say ... disgusting
/s
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u/McChibken Sep 14 '26
Well that settles it, he's an antisemite
/s hopefully not needed
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u/DrDerpberg Sep 14 '26
Apparently a 2 state solution is anti-Semitic, but it's also anti-Semitic to say Israel is annexing its neighbours.
You can't win with fundamentalists.
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u/redditproha Sep 14 '26
Ed Sheeran is really looking like a piece of shit if he can't stand by that most basic statement. Respect to Macklemore for standing up against genocide deniers.
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u/ishmael_king93 Sep 14 '26
Not a single venue said this. LiveNation is a cowardly corporation trying to shift blame to the conveniently unspecified “venues”
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u/Tommyblockhead20 Sep 14 '26
Well LiveNation owns 150+ venues so it’s very possible both are true.
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u/jonfitt Sep 14 '26
Vertical integration! Great for companies, terrible for consumers.
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u/Quirky-Pangolin-905 Sep 14 '26
The venues that allegedly objected to the rapper include: Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia; Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts; Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta; Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis; Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina; AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
None of which are Live Nation owned. I think we need to stop using Live Nation as a scapegoat for everything.
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u/Murderland666 Sep 14 '26
Apparently it was Robert Kraft, owner of the Pats/Gillette stadium who spearheaded it and got either owners to sign on.
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u/iAMbigmeesh Sep 14 '26
It not Live Nation. Robert Kraft called Ed Sheeran and told him to drop Macklemore and called the other owners to agree to drop the tour. Macklemore posted this on his IG.
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u/cjh6793 Sep 14 '26
Read Macklemore's post on IG, the owner of Gillette Stadium (Robert Kraft) specifically kicked off the ban and rallied the support of other stadium owners.
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u/Altruistic-Edge9034 Sep 14 '26
trying to shift blame to the conveniently unspecified “venues”
Third paragraph in the article:
The venues that allegedly objected to the rapper include: Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia; Gillette Stad...
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u/thebruns Sep 14 '26
You really don't think the right wing billionaires who own the nfl teams didn't say anything?
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u/DefoNotMario Sep 14 '26
Same venues demanding he be dropped would host Kanye in a heartbeat
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u/snuggiemclovin Sep 14 '26
Kanye performed at Raymond James in Tampa and they’ve joined the venues banning Macklemore.
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u/woodpony Sep 14 '26
Kanye was actually antisemitic...which is a frownable offence. Macklemore is anti-Israel...which is far worse to the powerful parties.
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u/Ralod Sep 14 '26
And Pink as well, what a weird thing to support censorship.
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u/ToraRyeder Sep 14 '26
In the early 2000s, "Dear Mr. President" was an impactful song putting into words just how fucked up the war was. We all knew it was awful and many artists pushed back.
To see her on the side of genocide breaks my heart. So many artists that used to be "woke" are now showing just how unethical they are.
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u/Plastic_Leading2286 Sep 14 '26
Dear Mr President was performative. When it came out The Chicks had already been raked across the coals for years for speaking up against Bush. She jumped on the bandwagon when the tide was already turning and it was more palatable to criticise the war.
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u/ToraRyeder Sep 14 '26
I agree with you. Back then, I didn't know. 9/11 was when I was in second grade I think? I followed The Dixie Chicks at the time and LOVED them. I didn't understand the backlash and remember when "Not Ready to Make Nice" came out. 90% certain they changed their name after the genre was divided after that.
Celebrities are able to hide behind their music and let fans think what they want. The Chicks have been clear in their music and action that they don't put up with this. I'm learning now (so many years later) that Pink is not the same. Fucking hate that.
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u/Wobblucy Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
Something something anti trust laws.
If 'venue owners' can control what stars can say/sing about across the whole country, there is something wrong with the system.
IE one venue owner saying I don't support the belief that 'x is repressed, you can't play here' is within their rights.
When a single corporation can get an artist booted off a tour, especially when his music is recently very much anti repression then there is something wrong.
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u/Franticunravel Sep 14 '26
This is disappointing and does not send the right message.
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u/mygiddygoat Sep 14 '26
Ed Sheeran needs to make a statement, where does he stand on this?
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u/Elieftibiowai Sep 14 '26
And where the hell is Ja Rule when you need him?
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u/lolwatokay Sep 14 '26
Performing at the MAGA club a couple months ago apparently https://www.complex.com/music/a/jose-martinez/50-cent-trump-jr-maga-club-performance
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u/Haldered Sep 14 '26
Ed Sheeran is a generally cool guy (can't stand his music) but he doesn't have the balls to do shit. Hope he proves me wrong
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u/greenline_chi Sep 14 '26
The more they do this, the more obvious the sick corruption is
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u/thinkwalker Sep 14 '26
Ed should refuse to play in solidarity, contract be damned.
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u/Haldered Sep 14 '26
Yep and he's one of maybe 4 artists who has the power to do it
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u/ProgramConnect8206 Sep 14 '26
He's the kinda guy that sings about how cool it is to be Chris Brown, so I would lower your expectations of him.
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u/BabyStockholmSyndrom Sep 14 '26
I guess he could get Kanye to fill in now.
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u/Shelbysgirl Sep 14 '26
The last stop on Sheeran’s Loop Tour, for instance, is Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, which found itself in a similar spot earlier this summer after booking two Kanye West concerts. The shows, unsurprisingly, drew backlash and calls for cancellation due to West’s many past antisemitic statements, but they went ahead as planned.
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u/lastknownbuffalo Sep 14 '26
This is the free Palestine speech that got him kicked off of the tour
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u/cameron4200 Sep 14 '26
Why does mass media and the world not want someone saying “free Palestine?”
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u/Buki1 Sep 14 '26
People who own mass media in US do not support free palestine.
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u/cameron4200 Sep 14 '26
I don’t think they support a free us either the way I’m getting fucking throated for having a very simple opinion
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u/BroseppeVerdi Sep 14 '26
The venues that allegedly objected to the rapper include: Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia; Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts; Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia; Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis; Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina; AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas; and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
Would be a shame if something were to happen to their ticket sales.
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u/butteryjackpack Sep 14 '26
Lincoln Financial Field (Philadelphia, PA) – Owned by the City of Philadelphia (leased and operated by the Philadelphia Eagles). Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, MA) – Privately owned and operated by Kraft Sports Group (Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots). Mercedes-Benz Stadium (Atlanta, GA) – Owned by the State of Georgia via the Georgia World Congress Center Authority (operated by Arthur Blank's AMB Sports and Entertainment). Lucas Oil Stadium (Indianapolis, IN) – Owned by the Indiana Stadium and Convention Building Authority(a public state entity). Bank of America Stadium (Charlotte, NC) – Privately owned by Tepper Sports & Entertainment (David Tepper, owner of the Carolina Panthers). AT&T Stadium (Arlington, TX) – Owned by the City of Arlington (leased and operated by Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys). Raymond James Stadium (Tampa, FL) – Publicly owned by Hillsborough County (managed and operated by the Tampa Sports Authority).
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u/ixiolite Sep 14 '26
Privately owned and operated by Kraft Sports Group (Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
As an update: Macklemore put up his own statement and explicitly stated that Ed Sheeran said he received a call from Robert Kraft, who rallied other stadium owners, saying Ed's tour would be effectively canceled if Macklemore was still allowed onboard
Kraft Group (not to be confused with Kraft Mac and Cheese) has many many many private equity holdings in Israel and donates to AIPAC frequently
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u/JOHN_BROWNS_BUSSY Sep 14 '26
The same Gillette stadium that hosts an Antisemitism Command Center where ADL and Israeli funded workers spend their days trying to ruin college students lives for posting "free Palestine"? I'm SHOCKED!
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u/EnthusiasmNo6062 Sep 14 '26
Wait, didnt they call people snowflakes for canceling shows and people a few years ago? The party of projection.
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u/Guilty_Cod6621 Sep 14 '26
Whenever someone gets punished for saying something bad about Israel i automatically just assume what they’re saying is right
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u/WowIfOnly Sep 14 '26
Same. The world has been purchased and run into the ground by right wing people and there's zero justice happening anywhere on the planet - so you know the moment someone actually gets punished for anything it was because they were speaking up for normal people or saying "dangerous" things like maybe the people who run entire nations should have to follow basic international law instead of murdering thousands of people they don't like for being a different ethnicity.
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u/islandsimian Sep 14 '26
I love - no wait - fucking hate how the right screaming about cancel culture is the only one committing cancel culture
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u/Jane_Austen11 Sep 14 '26
Maybe I am wrong but Ed is a big artist. Why didn’t he said fine if you don’t allow him then I cancel the shows. And do it on other venues.
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u/agodrevealed Sep 14 '26
Cause he doesn't really care. Its easier and safer to do nothing.
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u/mrpaddymelt Sep 14 '26
Because like most celebrities he is a brand he is not a real person, he's a puppet with a brand and his puppeteers wishes are going to over rule the damage to his brand. He will finish the tour, people will forget, nothing will change etc.
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u/xanthicize Sep 14 '26
daily reminder that billionaire popstars stand for nothing and you shouldn't expect anything from them
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u/redsolitary Sep 14 '26
Coward
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u/shpydar Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 16 '26
As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans. After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates.
Blame the venue owners.
(EDIT 2: ‘He was deeply offensive’: Bob Kraft on why he removed Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour)
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u/alyosha_pls Sep 14 '26
AKA Livenation/Ticketmaster?
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u/commandrix Sep 14 '26
Which shows how much power Livenation/Ticketmaster has if true. Disappointing, but not much will change until those two are broken up and most of their power returns to the physical venues and the artists.
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u/warmbutterydiapers Sep 14 '26
Yeah. But Sheerhan could also just tell them to fuck themselves or cancel the tour.
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u/BumbotheCleric Sep 14 '26
Nah as a big Ed Sheeran fan this is also on him. He's a global superstar, he has the sway and the money to say "no, fuck you" and he definitely should've done so. Very disappointing
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u/AdviceNotAskedFor Sep 14 '26
I mean ed sheeren could also play music elsewhere, no?
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u/orionsfyre Sep 14 '26
He could, but he'll make a little less money. Also it would mean he has principles... but he doesn't.
Or maybe He agrees with Israeli policy towards the Palestinian people and anyone not jewish living in the regions the settlers want to take over by force.
Whose to say. Not Ed, He's taking the money and keeping his mouth shut.
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 Sep 14 '26
After discussions with stakeholders
Yea. Not after discussions with Ed. If he doesn't say shit about this, then he's a fucking coward musician beholden to stakeholders.
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u/MarcoReus7_Sucks Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
Have a backbone and make the venues prove it. See if they really want to lose out on that money.
Sheeran doesn't need the money.
Edit: He can definitely cover lost wages for those working on the tour.
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u/AliveJohnnyFive Sep 14 '26
Ed makes the rules. He's a huge star. He could easily stick to his morals, if he had any.
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u/Marchit0_Perecer Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
How spineless of Ed Sheeran and his team.
Edit: Ok I hear y'all, it was the venues that decided so but here was a great opportunity for Ed to stand his ground, cancelling Ed Sheeran shows doesn't make those venues revenue either.
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u/ozzy_thedog Sep 14 '26
Ed Sheeran’s team should have said fine, cancel the tour. We will reschedule and re-book at venues that don’t silence free speech.
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u/DerekB52 Sep 14 '26
The problem is there have to be other venues for that. There's basically a monopoly on venues large enough to host an Ed Sheeran concert.
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u/chandr Sep 14 '26
Ed sheeran is rich, he can take the hit to ticket sales to set up with independant venues. Make a big publicity thing about how venues were trying to strong arm an artist's free speech. He isn't some nobody trying to make ends meet.
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u/philter451 Sep 14 '26
Yes exactly. Accepting this decision and moving on let's the bullies that decided this know that their shitty tactics work. This is absolutely a time to use your celebrity to make a big stink. If I were Ed I would absolutely post all over for fans to make a stink at live nation. We've got to bully the bullies.
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u/EldenLord41 Sep 14 '26
God damn dude this whole fucking country is beyond saving. Fuck this place and all these genocide supporting, snowflake ass nazis
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u/babaroga73 Sep 14 '26
Such hateful speech from Maclemore. If I remember correctly he said all nations should have peace, including Palestine. We can't have that, can we?
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u/indig0sixalpha Sep 14 '26
“As the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans. After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining support dates.”