I guess it matters if Ed got "the wealth sickness". It's that illness people get when they have that much money. The one Rogan got. The one where your core beliefs and constitution becomes intertwined with all that fucking money and you become a giant tool of the wealth. You become Elon.
I won't go into headquarters and scream free palestine. Why? Because I will be fired and not be able to provide for my family. So I will keep my politics to myself at work, just like you will.
I think there's a critical difference between "millionaire set for life refuses to earn slightly smaller piles of money" and "normal person refuses to risk homelessness and desolation"
It's not "wealth illness" to not want to compromise essentials, like housing, food, and access to healthcare.
"Ed Sheeran has roughly 350 to 380 individual tracks available on Spotify, including his main studio albums, deluxe editions, collaborations, and featured guest spots."
"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sound exactly the same, In fact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”
Angus Young, AC⚡️DC
If you have a good thing going, might as well stick with it. Sheeran's not my style of music but if people like what he puts out then I'm not going to judge him. When you have a goldmine, keep digging out the gold, don't start focusing on gravel.
Jesus! I have nothing against Ed, but if you put out 380 songs, there must be a lot of crap in it. Quantity over quality. I mean that's the equivalent of about 33 studio albums! That should be at least 70 years worth of work!
Kinda reminds me of Dua Lipa (which I'm a fan of) talking about her latest album. She proudly said she had written something like 40 or 50 songs on tour. Girl, if those songs on the album are the best of the best of 50 songs, then that's nothing to be proud of. It's really not the flex you think it is...uff...
Music isn't good because the listener is simply incapable of musical achievement. u/graspedbythehusk's ability/achievement or lack of ability/achievement isn't a factor.
It's simply a quality evaluation. Dude doesn't enjoy Sheeran's pop-sound, that's all.
EDIT: To "actively bash" him, one would need to do more than say that essentially, one thinks Sheeran's music is boring. Fan count is also irrelevant because opinions are preference based. Like me as an example, I haven't ever enjoyed taylor swifts music, and she's now a billionaire with a fan count likely in the hundreds of millions. I don't care, I still don't enjoy her music.
Likening someones music to "paint drying" is definitely bashing my friend. If you say something in a rude way that can be said in many other not so rude ways, you are being a dick
Snoop dog à dit dans un interview avoir gagné quarante mille dollars pour 1 milliard de stream sur Spotify. Du coup faut m'expliquer pourquoi cette différence de rémunération
He has 65.4 billion spotify streams, his lifetime total streams on Spotify alone is more than 3 times that of snoop dogg in his lifetime, and his most popular albums and songs get released straight to music streaming platforms at the peak of his career. Snoop did his most historic and memorable music 14 years before spotify was invented and 90% of his career output this side of the decade have barely graced billboard top 200. Meanwhile even mid ed sheeran releases spend weeks on the billboard hot list and get played enough for fucking everyone on earth to have memorized the hook
He will be fine, thankfully! Although I’m not an Ed fan, I don’t believe years of hard work should be taken away in one bad decision (if you view his inaction through that lens). I hate cancel culture in general. It’s very sheepy, mob mentality.
Why wouldn’t cancel culture apply to both Mack and Ed, if they’re now also saying to cancel Ed for a lack of position or whatever they decide at this moment.
People have twisted “cancel culture” so badly that its meaning has become as muddled as “liberal” or “fascist”. Oppressors do this in order to take power away from terms that give the people an avenue to express their shared grievances so that the oppressor can keep people from joining in solidarity.
Case in point:
Fans dropping you en masse because the people don’t like something you do or say is not getting cancelled.. Thats just the free market of ideas deciding that the people’s demand for you is dropping off.
Someone with power pulling your plug because he doesn’t like what you say, regardless of whether the people like you or not, IS getting cancelled.
Macklemore is the only one getting cancelled here. Ed just F’d around and now he’s entering the “find out” stage. (At least as far as someone as wealthy as he is can face consequences.)
Ed’s band dropping out because they don’t like how he’s behaving isn’t him being canceled, it’s just a real world outcome of what he did.
Whereas billionaire stadium owners demanded Macklemore be dropped. Ed’s getting abandoned by people “below” him on a social hierarchy/financial scale, Macklemore was canceled by people with far more power than him. They are not the same situation
If you think in any way stopping listening to Ed is going to stop Israel from wholesale murder in any way, you’re probably one of those that think changing their backgrounds on social media does something for a cause as well!
Here’s the thing, this whole thing being news and brought to more screens, eyes, and ears has probably done more for the Palestinian plight than anything in a while.
The US tide is really starting to turn against Israel…
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