The Price of Fame for Ed Sheeran

Ed Sheeran is a prisoner, and this is why. This is Ed.

Ed used to sing to coffee shops, regular people,

bars, et cetera, and he would make impact

locally as any artist starts out. He starts reaching mass

appeal, and those fans turn into super fans,

which then turns into data, which then he can use to create

bigger shows. But Ed has a problem.

Ed can't do these bigger shows because he's

only a guitarist, singer person. He's not a lighting tech, he's

not a manager, he's not a showrunner.

He's pretty much not anybody else in his team but the person that's on the stage.

So what does Ed do? We have to remember this

was early social media, so it's

not like he could have just done it by himself like how most people can do it

now.

He had to go to a label.

Now, the labels own the data streams, the venues, and now

IPs, which is Ed. They tell him, "We'll give you the venues,

we'll give you access to all our tools and people, and we'll give you access

to other creators in our network, and that will allow you

to maximize your own core audience."

But see, what Ed doesn't know is that this isn't free.

Since now Ed is only 10% of the reason why

this is working and they are 90% the reason why this is working,

they have 90% stake in what he says

or does.

So fast-forward, Ed is now doing bigger shows,

and he's been doing them for years

extremely successfully. But why do these people give a fuck

besides money?

Well, these bigger shows allow them to speak to

more people.

It allows them to move more people in the directions that they

want politically, fiscally, and

situationally, also culturally.

So now that Ed is doing the biggest shows of his career, Ed does have

a say in a way. It's more like kind of like how, uh,

you know, a

dog can, like, choose whatever chew toy that they want

if the

parent is there with them, right? So he chooses his friends,

the openers

of his current tour.

See, but a couple of his friends don't have as

much strings attached to them

as Ed does. I mean, they don't make nearly as much money,

but they brought them in. Ed unknowingly opened up his

platform to people with opposing viewpoints of his

handlers.

So when his friends decide to speak

about something that the handlers do not like before

their main product gets on stage, you're damn right they're gonna have

something to

say about it. See, but the thing is, the reason why they created Ed is

so that these spineless pieces of shit

can literally use this kid

to preach their gospel. The money that they wanna put in,

they're using Ed as a mascot. That's why

we don't know what they fucking talk about, okay?

We know what Ed thinks, right? So he takes the entire brunt of

the entire system, okay?

The only reason this guy made it anywhere in life is

because of these people. There are millions of talented people

busking every single day like how Ed was.

Some of them might even be more talented.

But unfortunately, every contract has a price, and

Ed's time was due. And now that we all see what's

going on, I hope that these systems allow you to see

the bullshit that is being given to us every single day.

Peace.