Hayley Williams’ Forest Hills Pre-Show Playlist Featured All The Acts Who Exited Ed Sheeran’s Tour

A week ago, it might've been surprising to go see Hayley Williams and to hear Macklemore and Lukas Graham on the pre-show playlist. Now, it looks like a righteous statement of solidarity. Late last week, opening act Macklemore was dropped from Ed Sheeran's current stadium tour because he made anti-genocide statements during that tour's first two shows. By all accounts, the owners of the NFL stadiums where Sheeran is booked, Robert Kraft in particular, made it clear that the shows couldn't happen with Macklemore on the bill. Sheeran, who insists that he's "not complicit," rolled over and accepted their terms without protest.Soon afterward, all of that tour's other opening acts —Aaron Rowe, Finneas, and Lukas Graham — quit the tour in solidarity with Macklemore, as did Beoga, the Irish folk group who acted as Sheeran's backing band during part of his show. Yesterday, Macklemore pledged to donate the $1 million that he made on the Sheeran tour to organizations that help Palestinian people and challenged Robert Kraft to match that donation, while Kraft said that he and Sheeran would both donate $2 million. It's been the biggest story in the music world over the past few days, and Hayle...