Paloma Faith
Role at the time: Singer, commenting beneath Macklemore’s statement
Statement summary
Paloma Faith commented on Macklemore’s statement calling him a rare and important voice and a hero. She had already voiced support earlier in the dispute.
“You are a rare and important voice … thank you for existing…. This is so articulate and so powerful. You are a hero xxx”
Just Jared collects comments left beneath Macklemore’s September 14 Instagram statement and quotes them individually across a multi-page round-up. The comments themselves were not read from the post, whose thread runs to tens of thousands of entries; each quotation here rests on this outlet’s transcription.
Why we used this label
Relative to Macklemore’s speech and removal, Paloma Faith praises the statement as powerful and calls him a hero, endorsing the stand he took. This is a separate, later comment from her earlier response already recorded in this case.