Ed Sheeran’s Disastrous Tour & The Return Of That Celebrity Sex Rumour
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Hello and welcome to Mamma Mia Out Loud. It's what women are actually talking about on Wednesday, the 23rd of September. I'm Holly Wainwright. I'm Mia Friedman. And I'm Jesse Stevens. And here's what's on our agenda for today. Is it possible for a celebrity to be a political in twenty twenty six? We are unpacking the biggest entertainment story in the world right now, Ed Sharon's disastrous tour.
Plus, two iconic Australian fashion labels went into receivership this week, and we're gonna talk about whether it was bad business that made that happen or whether it's our fault because the way we get dressed has changed.
And there's a new podcast all about the Richard Gear gerbil rumor that refuses to die. Why are some celebrity urban legends so persistent? But first, Jesse Stevens. The NRL grand final is a few weeks away, and it's not just Ed Sheeran, which we'll get to, who has lost his support act. Tones and I, whose real name is Tony Watson, is best known for her hits Dance Monkey and Fly Away. If you think you don't know those songs, you I just promise you you do. universe known as dance monk. Yes. And she's performed at the AFL grand final, at music awards, on the Ellen DeGeneres show. She's the first female artist to have ever have reached three billion streams on Spotify. So we're talking that like she that's bigger than Beyonce, that's bigger than Taylor Swift.
Like she's a big deal. She
was she started as a busker on the streets of Byron Bay and I saw her there once. And I saw her there once.
Oh my goodness. Did you know she was gonna be a star? Okay. There are loads of buses. She's a big deal and she's Aussie. There's been controversy in the past when the big prematch entertainment of AFL grand finals or NRL grand finals are international. They're like, we've got so much great Australian homegrown talent. Let's platform them. But we learned today that there will be no prematch entertainment this year after talks broke down with Tones and I and the NRL. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the pre-match. Problems arose when the NRL insisted Tones and I perform the song Dance Monkey and she refused. She's We have no confirmation that that is the case. In fact, it probably seems a little bit more complicated than that.
But when I read that story, I thought it asked an interesting question, which was When you are a star of that size and when you have a song that is that viral and people love and people go, Tones and I dance monkey.
What happened to Ed Sheeran’s US arena tour and why did it fall apart?
How many years do you have to sing that song? Are you obligated to sing that song? Like Is that something that she's just gotta grit her teeth and bare and do? Because she's on the record as saying, I am so over that song. I am overperforming it. I loathe is the word she's used. I loathe that song. What do we think? Especially like given the song's called Dance Monkey and it's literally like dance monkey, go do your dance, monkey. Well,
anyone who's ever been to a concert of an artist that they like and they don't play the song that you love knows how frustrating that can be. And I also understand that from an artist's point of view, they don't want to be sort of their own karaoke act. They want to try new music for financial reasons. They want to sell more music, but also it's more creative. Like one of the ways you can be creatively burnt out is to do the same thing again and again.
Isn't it awful when they say, I'm gonna play some of my new stuff and you're like, everybody goes to the bar.
That's when everybody goes to the bar. Exactly. And so, but there are a lot of artists that do it, and I understand why.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:04
2
What happened to Ed Sheeran’s US arena tour and why did it fall apart?
3:04–5:15
3
Why did Tones and I refuse to perform “Dance Monkey” for the NRL grand final?
5:15–7:08
4
Why do artists keep refusing to play their biggest hit songs on tour?
7:08–11:51
5
Do I really need a suit right now and how much does one cost?
11:51–33:32
6
Can a celebrity truly stay apolitical in 2026?
33:32–39:44
7
What caused two iconic Australian fashion labels to go into receivership?
39:44–46:21
Speakers
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