{"id":443018,"date":"2026-09-21T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443018\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:04:42","slug":"vote-should-musicians-avoid-making-political-statements-during-live-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/443018\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Should musicians avoid making political statements during live concerts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should musicians avoid making political statements during live concerts? Vote in the poll above or <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/vote-should-musicians-avoid-making-political-statements-during-live-concerts-question-of-the-day-ed-sheeran-macklemore-pro-palestinian-remarks-israel-gaza-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ed Sheeran is confronting a growing free-speech controversy after Macklemore was dropped from his tour following pro-Palestinian remarks and other supporting acts withdrew in solidarity. <\/p>\n<p>Sheeran <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/ed-sheeran-opens-about-israel-palestine-conflict-amid-concert-controversy-macklemore-music-politics-gaza-war-freedom-of-speech-first-ammendment-gillette-stadium-robert-kraft#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">resumed the tour in Philadelphia<\/a>, condemning both the Oct. 7 attacks and the devastation in Gaza while criticizing efforts by venues to pre-approve performers\u2019 content. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should musicians avoid making political statements during live concerts? Vote in the poll above or click here. Ed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-443018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}