Roger Waters
Role at the time: Musician; co-founder of Pink Floyd
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters posted an Instagram video calling Macklemore someone who "does the right thing" and calling Ed Sheeran a "little prick" for his handling of the removal.
“There's two kinds of people in this world: There's people who do the right thing, that rapper Macklemore would be one of those people. And there's people, many of them sadly little ... pricks like you, who do the wrong thing. Goodbye.”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Roger Waters calls out "little pricks like" Ed Sheeran over Macklemore response
HuffPost report on Roger Waters' Instagram video attacking Ed Sheeran over the Macklemore tour removal. Waters himself was previously criticized in 2023 for using antisemitic imagery in a stage show, which he defended as commentary on fascism.
Why we used this label
Waters explicitly praises Macklemore as someone who 'does the right thing' and condemns Sheeran, defending Macklemore's conduct in the underlying dispute.