Sept. 15, 2026
The artist Finneas and three other supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour on Tuesday, after the US rapper Macklemore was removed for his pro-Palestine comments on stage.
Finneas, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, and Lukas Graham of Denmark all posted statements announcing they were quitting Sheeran’s “Loop Tour” in solidarity with the rapper and Palestinian people.
"Artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed,” Finneas said in a statement on social media.
His statement came after Irish singer Aaron Rowe published a statement, announcing that he had decided to withdraw as a support act for the British singer.
Gee… here’s an idea: maybe fucking actors and fucking singers with little/no formal education or qualifications should shut the fuck up about their political opinions.
Maybe those who have the podium and the privilege should use it.
So which is it? Sometimes people tell them to shut up nobody wants your opinion and others it is use it?
You know in the 1960s, so I’m told (as I wasn’t around then), rock and roll wasn’t afraid to be political. Fuck, that was half the point.
Ever hear of Woodstock? Not Woodstock '99…that was a blatent nostalgia-driven cash-grab put on by boomers who were incapable of attending the original because they were off fighting charlies or getting business degrees. The original 1969 Woodstock.
The one where a black man beautifully dessicrated the national anthem. Yeah that one.
Times have changed. Ever hear of the Dixie Chicks?
Exactly, only enlightened geniuses like us who comment on forums are brilliant enough to have opinions on politics. Why should we listen to well-traveleved people when we can get the real scoop from your mother’s basement?
Normally I hate this kind of appeal to authority stuff, but I gotta defend the guy: Macklemore literally went to college and has a degree in political science… he’s as qualified to talk about Palestine as anyone else is.
How is an anti-genocide position politics? Is it not just human to not be able to ignore atrocities?
Is denying the holocaust also just a political opinion to discuss?
We probably shouldn’t talk about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, much too political. Let’s just forget it ever happened.
Actually were it political we’d have to understand that Hitler had some good points, but we just disagree with them.
What were Hitlers good points exactly?
Maybe what bites me in the ass is English being my second language. Doesn’t the use of “were” make my sentence conditional? So I’m saying that if Holocaust denial is a mere political disagreement we would unironically be discussing the pro and cons of Hitler’s points… which I’m not suggesting we should.
Would you say that you need qualifications to form opinions about a topic? That seems quite restrictive, specifically for politics. Lots of people have and share political opinions without qualifications. You yourself just shared a political opinion, do you have qualifications?
You need to formal education and qualification to know genocide is bad
I guess you’ve never watched a movie or listened to a song?
Art is a way for people to express themselves, and political opinions are traditionally a big part of that.