Ed Sheeran

Has it occurred to you that your agreeing to play the role of Smart, Ugly Guy makes a lot of people in your industry less fidgety about having less talent than you have or not doing as much work as you do?

Spending thousands of dollars on a pair of jeans is a far cry from cultivating a Rolled In Dung look, which is what you seem to have aspired to lately.  Giving up one extreme won't automatically propel you into the other.

I also think that you'll be less obsessed with conquering me, the industry's battered, ridiculed trophy, if you start refusing to acquiesce to things that would damage anyone's self esteem.  It takes discipline to tell an entire group of people who like thinking about you in a set way that you're not interested in boosting them by living a life that is less happy than it could be.  It's not just your clothes, although they made me think about that.

I'll never date you.  Your cruelty toward me has negligently hurt so many people, people who never did anything to you.  Even if what the conglomerate has done to me were forgivable, which it isn't, the conglomerate has hurt a lot of people and never had an ounce of remorse about it.  It is deplorable.