Jon Blistein

Macklemore accused one stadium chief in particular, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, of rallying other venues into their opposition.

And that then triggered a backlash of its own from Sheeran's remaining supporting acts, as the Rolling Stone's Jon Blistein told us.

A lot of these artists did express some kind of, like, solidarity with the sentiments Macklemore was saying.

I think some of them, like, repeated "Free Palestine" in their statements.