Jack Antonoff is calling out Ed Sheeran for the way the singer handled the controversy surrounding his Loop Tour.
The British musician and longtime Taylor Swift collaborator has faced backlash in recent months after rapper Macklemore was dropped from his tour due to his onstage display of support for Palestine amid the ongoing conflict with Israel. His exit from the tour came after billionaire Robert Kraft gathered other stadium owners to join him in blocking Macklemore from performing at their venues.
Although Sheeran insisted that he was “not complicit” in Macklemore’s firing, Grammy-winning music producer Antonoff had some choice words for the songwriter in an interview with The Guardian published Sunday.
“It’s not in any way a strange, uncomfortable or controversial thing to say, it’s a deeply human thing to say,” the Bleachers frontman told the outlet about Macklemore’s call to “free Palestine.”
“They’re going to let some f***ing promoter tell me what I can say? Don’t book me.…