While Sheeran claimed to be adhering to his apolitical brand, one critic argued he was really just "letting a pro-Israel billionaire choose his politics for him."
Ed is a musician. I would not expect perfect diplomacy from any musician. His job is to please his audience and I suspect he doesn’t quite know what that is politically. He appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place. I doubt he has any hard line political position and simply tries to balance demands from his fans and management while wishing he could just keep plucking strings.
Ed is a musician. I would not expect perfect diplomacy from any musician. His job is to please his audience and I suspect he doesn’t quite know what that is politically. He appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place. I doubt he has any hard line political position and simply tries to balance demands from his fans and management while wishing he could just keep plucking strings.
It’s not a musician’s job to please the audience, it’s their job to please their own sense of aesthetics and integrity.
Someone trying to please the audience is an entertainer, who is just doing a job.
A musician is an entertainer. The job is to make entertaining music for an audience that wants to be pleased musically.
No, a musician is an artist. An entertainer is someone who entertains.
When a musician finds an audience, it is because THEY are entertained by the artist’s art, not because they are trying to be entertaining.
If they are, that would make them an entertainer.
Ed is all of that.