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A New Zealand music critic has ripped into Ed Sheeran's Galway Girl for 'cultural theft'
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WHILE ED SHEERAN’S Galway Girl has been a resounding success with his Irish fans (just as he intended it to be), it hasn’t received such a rapturous reception elsewhere.
The Guardian called it: “A song so ludicrous his label tried to prevent it from appearing on the record.”
The Irish Times said it has “all the authenticity of an Irish bar in Malaga that serves buttery chicken wings”.
But all of this pales in comparison to an extremely angry opinion piece published by the New Zealand website Stuff today.
Entitled ‘Ed Sheeran’s new single is cultural theft – and it’s not OK’, the article lays into Galway Girl and Sheeran with a fervour no actual Irish person has yet managed to conjure up.
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Putting aside the fact that the writer doesn’t seem to like the singer at all (seriously, read the piece) he is capital-M Mad at him for ‘appropriating’ Irish culture for the song:
Well, yes. It’s a bit heavy handed with the stereotypes and the drinking. But it’s OK, you don’t need to go to bat for u-
Is he done? Oh he’s not done:
Hey man, it’s alright. Ed has an Irish granny. We’ll forgive it… but we doubt this guy ever will.
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