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Either they're doing a re-release of The Circus tour on vinyl or whatever, or they're taking that exact show on tour again.

Its just come to me - End of the Road by Boyz II Men.

I mean, given that the money for artists is mainly in touring now, I say it's fair game.

Also I can't stand it when they go "he says what we're all thinking" or "he says what everyone's too afraid to say". I'm just like, go on. Say it. If you're so proud, why not?

I'm always suspicious of those who appear to be extremely passionate about immigration, because they seem like the kind of people who don't really like anyone. Even if they happened to be satisfied with whatever was done about that, they'd move on to something else. I thought the riots last year and the subsequent arrests made for violent behaviour would have set an example but clearly they need to go in heavier. Who are they even aiming their protests at?

Reddit is full of people saying as much. "The more the left do x, the more they drive people to the far right" etc.

No idea why he's so revered. If he wasn't white, his supporters wouldn't be so quick to look past his criminal activity.

I saw a clip the other day of people at one of these protests singing and dancing along to Queen. Queen who of course featured Freddie Mercury, who was a refugee by definition.

What a surprise.

Even though it sounds familiar melodically, I do really like The Vow as well.

I think social media plays a big part. Not all of it, but a large part because of how easy it can be to spread this stuff. It wasn't quite so easy 20 years ago.

Pretty sure what's happening in London today is only for the purpose of being racist, I don't believe they're doing it for good intentions.

How is "making the streets safer for women & girls" working out? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/12/alleged-rape-sikh-woman-west-midlands-hate-crime Detectives are hunting for two white male suspects alleged to have racially abused the woman during the assault in broad daylight.

Maybe being autistic plays a part in it - for me anyway. There's a lot of "mainstream" things I've liked over the years that would not be deemed cool. I've never been particularly bothered, even while having the odd comment at school about me being a One Direction fan. I suppose the older you get, the less you care about that sort of thing.

In my defence, I didn't say that. I said that the ones I've surrounded myself with do not. But then I'm also from an ethnic minority background so music (certainly Western pop) is not really something people from my background tend to engage in.

Even if he did, artists like him fall into the "cool to dislike" category. I'm a straight male and I've never known any other straight men in my life that have had an interest in pop music.

Ronan on The One Show making it very clear that they're not going on tour or getting the band back together, but merely looking to do something as a celebration. 2026 isn't a notable anniversary either - I almost thought it was with No Matter What but it's the musical that launched in 1996, whereas their version of it was released in 1998.

Only #66 on the sales chart too. Her last top 40 that she achieved on her own (not as a feature) was Yours in 2014 (#16), though Brave in 2022 came close at #42.

Interesting that Sapphire and Azizam have been his most commercially successful singles of this era, when even he felt they were the riskiest things to put out. I guess Old Phone and A Little More pleased old-time fans of Ed but didn't punch through in the way that those two did. Certainly for me anyway, they didn't. They're not bad by any means, but I didn't get excited by them. I'm interested to see what his sales will be actually. If Coldplay could get over 200,000 in their opening week, surely he can? I know that would beat his opening tallies in 2023 and 2021 but Coldplay managed to beat some of their previous opening tallies too.

With regards to the Union Jack, I have no strong opinion on them myself. You'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the sentiment around them though. There's only one group of people to blame for it being viewed as some kind of far-right symbol.

How is that "we should protect our own" thing going? https://news.sky.com/story/man-59-arrested-after-racist-and-abusive-messages-sent-to-england-football-star-jess-carter-13419935

The thing that mostly concerned me about him was the cult-like fanbase he had. He could do no wrong no matter how much he'd been caught out for lying. They interviewed a Welsh woman (during his PM tenure) who said she liked him despite his lying because "he's human".

Where she called for people to set fire to a hotel. I don't know why you're dismissing that as just anger like she's a 6 year old with no control over their emotions.

"Purely for being angry" is a really crass minimisation of what happened here.

To think they were all kicking off when they announced that the man involved in the Liverpool attack in May was white. It's almost as though they actively wanted to blame a non-white person.