A shame it’s taken this long to get his “music” off the airwaves. It should have happened years ago.
I know exactly one 2012 song from Macklemore and one 2017 song from Ed Sheeran. And that is the extent of my expertise on their biographies.
I’m old but Ed Sheeran has been around long enough and is big enough for at least one of his songs to float into the pop culture reflecting pool so I’d at least recognize a chorus or a lyric or two, but nothing seems to have stuck. Again, I’m old and don’t listen to new music anymore. I find musical nuggets in the past now, before I was born. Louis Prima rocks! Will Ed’s music stand the test of time?
I have a burning hatred for “pop” so I’m very biased on this, but, no. All his songs I’ve been exposed to (and right now I can only think of “shape of you”, after looking for track names) are, in my opinion, forgettable at best.
They were never included in my personal library and they never will.
Easiest recipe to damage your music career: Start shouting politics from the scene.
Second easiest way to damage your music career: Surround yourself with people eager to shout politics from the scene.
Funny. Because it seems like the people “shouting politics” are doing fine and it’s the cowards who won’t speak up against genocide who are feeling the consequences of their cowardice.
Someday, I hope non-celebrities who are indifferent to or supportive of genocode see some consequences too.
“removed from the airways” at one radio station in Ireland
better than none, hopefully the first of many
Good, Macklemore makes better music anyway
Kraft said in a statement on Instagram: “I have dedicated much of my life to building bridges between all people. I believe deeply that all lives are worth protecting.
That’s like saying ‘all lives matter’ in response to the Black Lives Matter movement; it’s disrespectful of the point being made.
Building bridges between the fascists and everyone else, so the fascists can do their thing
It’s like thinking reverse racism is a thing.
He very literally tried to pull a “I can’t be racist, I have black friends” because he’s worked with a couple people who happen to be Palestinian
the zionist entity sheeran is so cancelled at this point they have hired pikers chinese producers for content and the investment in the gaza re-education tunnels is almost complete
my hope is that with this cultural victory pop folk rock will be truely nine to five only
He’s saying he’s built bridges with murderers.
100% disingenuous word salad bullshit. Not even worth reading.
This is the way.
Imagine getting cancelled in 2026 for being a billionaire’s bitch.
I think most stations stopped playing him voluntarily ages ago
This is good for several reasons
I’m looking forward to removing his cameo from GoT. It won’t fix the series but it’ll make the last seasons slightly better.
Nah GoT deserves him. GRRM deserves this after selling out and abandoning the readers who supported his series for years. I don’t ever see myself watching the show again. Maybe the first 3 seasons.
I don’t ever see myself watching the show again. Maybe the first 3 seasons.
Whiplash!
No more samesies! Starting tomorrow!
lol ya The love hate I have for GoT is strong. In 4 days I watched season 1 twice. Once by myself and once with my gf. The early seasons retain much more of the 1st person perspective that made GRRMs world building a unique reading experience.
If you want a good fantasy series to read Malazan Book of the Fallen is way better anyway and finished.
And it gets better on a second read because you notice how many things that pay off in the Crippled God are set up way back in Gardens of the Moon
I started reading the first book, got like a third of the way in, then life got in the way. Thanks for reminding me! Gonna start over now
As a big Malazan fan, just know you’re not alone if you sometimes find yourself feeling puzzled on your first read. I had to read several chapters of the first book twice to really get it. Subsequent books went much more smoothly.
I wouldn’t call it selling out. He didn’t abandon the books because of the series. He didn’t know how the books will end. Luckily for him he doesn’t have to end them as the HBO series set him up for life.
He didn’t know how the books will end.
That’s impossible because he both provided the show writers with ending plot points in 2013 and has said multiple times that the books would end differently than the show.
Luckily for him he doesn’t have to end them as the HBO series set him up for life.
You and I have very different operating definitions of “selling out”.
You don’t see an issue with your logic here? He gave the show some pointers on how to end it…knowing that’s what he didn’t want to end it with and knowing the books would end differently. That doesn’t mean he knows how the books are going to end. That means he has chosen one way the books are not going to end and the ways they can end are literally every other possible option.
He’s not going to finish the book series. Him taking a payday and leaving his fans who supported his writing career hanging is selling out.
Anyone who read the books would know why I’m upset. You clearly did not.
I was responding to the first part you said about being impossible that he doesn’t know how the books will end. Your response was not actually a response to me at all. You can be upset all you want, that’s irrelevant.
So, you inserted yourself into a conversation you were not a part of, on a subject you don’t know anything about about … to be an asshole?
I’ll be removing you from my lemmy experience now. Clearly you’ve run out of positive contributions
Thank you Palestine and Macklemore for standing up to keep this Zionist scum off the radio 🙏 now only if YouTube and Spotify would grow some balls
😂 as if
man, I hope this is widespread and permanent. Let us never hear his music again.
