Amelia Lester
speaker
7,434 appearances
38 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard yesterday
Amelia Lester’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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a geopolitical conflict or war or genocide, whatever words you choose to use, like some sort of diplomat.
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It was as though he was trying to solve or to kind of sum it up in what, four hundred words or or something?
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And the answer to how we got there is that a political choice was made.
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So I think
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He was apolitical and there were always going to be people who were uncomfortable with him for that.
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There's apolitical musicians who there is a lot of pressure on to say, tell us what you think, tell us what you think.
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corners, but they still like Taylor Swift is one of them.
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Right?
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And she goes, Nah, I'm not going to.
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I see that as
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compelled speech.
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I don't think it's especially helpful.
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And I think there's a question about how much these musicians, performers, artists actually can affect change anyway.
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But he was apolitical.
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The answer to how he got in that position, standing on a stage, having to comment on a place he has never been and a conflict
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Ed from West Yorkshire probably doesn't know much about is that it was a political decision to remove MacLemore and to say, we don't want you saying those words on the stage.
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that's
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And what
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What about that?
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Because some people see it and go, but he's talking about the tragedy of dead children.
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