true, but Ed’s PR team is going to have to think long and hard about how to play this one, he and Taylor Swift are up there on the top of “you better not fuck up the money train”
It’s only going to get worse if he does nothing. At minimum, he’s getting booed when he next tours Europe. He either needs to make a public statement or cancel some dates.
There are enough Sheeran fans that are unaware of what is going on or totally indifferent. His "statement" about it all makes it pretty clear that they don't care about the current blowback or that it's really not registering enough to affect the tour.
I hope long term this affects him but I doubt this will impact the tour at all.
I know how good that hate boner feels but put it down for 2 seconds and look up who actually is making Ed do this; the billionaire Robert Kraft. Who is literally holding Ed's visa hostage if he doesn't do what he's told to do.
The whole thing sucks but Kraft is the bad guy here just as much, if not more so, than Ed.
Yeah I’ve been thinking Ed has been spineless but the outrage has been equating Ed to a genocide supporting scumbag, and very quiet about the billionaire who rallied the other rich folk into pressuring Ed over the issue
I think this often happens because we already know these billionaires are horrible people, that are enabling and accepting of this genocide. It’s when people we respected and assumed were good that let us down, we feel more affected and so more vitriol is going towards Ed.
That's a convenient scapegoat to pin this on Kraft more than Sheeran and his team. Sheeran's side very well could have just not addressed it but decided to put out the statement that they did. There's really no sympathy for Sheeran even if he's beholden to Kraft.
Unless you have some greater insights, Sheeran chose to associate with Kraft. It's not like he's bound to indentured servitude to the guy. People are taking some of the jabs at Sheeran too far but you're going too far to absolve him from his autonomy in this situation.
Edit: where is this whole thing about his visa coming from? Searching that didn't bring anything up.
This is too complex a matter to pin on one singular person, especially when the guy behind the curtains is the one that forced Ed to do this. Sure Ed coulda told him to fuck off, and that's on Ed, but the fact Kraft is not mentioned more in this is abhorrent. That's more what my gripe is, the fact that a goddamn billionaire is the root cause of this and all anyone can talk about is Ed.
The visa thing is because Ed isn't a citizen, he's here on an O-1 visa that can be revoked at any moment. A year ago he posted about moving to the US but he's still British at the end of the day. Basically there is nothing stopping the government from deciding he isn't playing nicely and can send him/his family packing.
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u/OtherwiseMoose8257 Collector Sep 15 '26
Its Ed Sheeran, its still selling out with or without opening acts