BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Beebo]

An Irish radio station has taken Ed Sheeran off rotation...

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/20...ic-hits-radio-drops-ed-sheeran-from-playlist/

Hopefully because of his song Gallway Girl.
I feel a bit sorry for Sheeran.
He has been caught in the crosshairs here.

 

[First Aspect]

An Irish radio station has taken Ed Sheeran off rotation...

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/20...ic-hits-radio-drops-ed-sheeran-from-playlist/

I think this is probably just because the music is bland watery shīt.

 

[briantrumpet]

I think this is probably just because the music is bland watery shīt.

Bzzzzt. 'Watery shït' stinks and makes one's arse sting. So it's not what I would call 'bland'.

 

[First Aspect]

Fair, providing you aren't defending Ed Sheeran. His popularity is as inexplicable to me as Taylor Swift.

(I am currently listening to A Perfect Night in London by Lou Reed so my snobbery is particularly high today.)

 

[AndyRM]

Hopefully because of his song Gallway Girl.
I feel a bit sorry for Sheeran.
He has been caught in the crosshairs here.

Aye, parts of me do, parts of me don't.

For someone with a very carefully curated image I think he's been pretty naive about the whole situation.

Politics aside I hope there isn't lasting damage to his friendships.

 

[briantrumpet]

For someone with a very carefully curated image I think he's been pretty naive about the whole situation.

Politics aside I hope there isn't lasting damage to his friendships.

That rather depends if there's at least a private admission by him about his naivety, and a realisation of how the pro-Netanyahu voice will react to even the slightest criticism of the situation in Gaza, and why saying nothing is not a credible option for someone with such a profile who's hiring other artists with not-hidden sympathies.

 

[Pblakeney]

A hammer seems to be the only tool they have though. They seem lost in a world where inflation and interest rates aren't automatically linked.

I’d say that within a global market our interest rates are inconsequential. We can make our own lives a little easier, or a little more miserable but it won’t affect inflation.
The Houthies may have more say, for example.

 

[Psamathe]

I feel a bit sorry for Sheeran.

I think he has been naive and handled the situation very badly. Does not reflect well on him.

 

[Rusty Nails]

An Irish radio station has taken Ed Sheeran off rotation...

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/20...ic-hits-radio-drops-ed-sheeran-from-playlist/

I find this all very sinister, especially from the “good guys”.
As sinister as dropping Macklemore.