The last time I remember thinking about Macklemore, the 43-year-old d****e-pencil mustachioed Eminem wannabe, was when he won a Grammy more than 10 years ago. Not because of his music –I don’t care for crap music – but because he was always giving acceptance speeches about gay people and against Jews, so the leftist media loved him for it.

Then the time came for him to make another hit record and, as happens with most everyone in music except a very few, he discovered he was more of a gimmick than a talent – the Dubai chocolate of white-guy rap.

He quickly faded away because that’s what flashes in the pan do.

Ed Sheeran is not a flash in the pan. He’s not my style either, though he’s closer to my taste than the snowflake because Ed has musical talent and can write a clever lyric, but he has proven himself to have staying power and to create a lot of music over time that people like. Good acts change, not with the times but with the soundtrack of times themselves. The Beatles never made the same album twice, let alone the same single. They innovated and grew. Sheeran did too. Macklemore did not.

When someone in Ed Sheeran’s camp asked Macklemore to join him as one of his opening acts on a North American tour, it should have been met with joy and relief –........

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