Pop stars are speaking out for and against Taylor Swift amid Scooter Braun drama, but where’s Ed Sheeran?

Part of the still unspooling drama between Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun since it was announced he

bought her old music catalog has become who’s speaking out on behalf of Taylor and, more tellingly, who’s not.

Taylor took issue with the sale in a long Tumblr post in which she pointed to the years of “bullying”

she endured because of the manager, whose clients include Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande.

According to BuzzFeed, Scooter’s team has told its clients to keep their lips zipped on the sale.

Artists who have already come to Scooter’s defense include Sia, who called him “a good, kind man”

and encouraged him to “keep going” in spite of the backlash, as well as Demi Lovato. Halsey, meanwhile,

was among those who have spoken out in defense of Taylor. Notably quiet is Ed Sheeran, Taylor’s longtime

close pal and a guy who, as fans have pointed out, has benefited tremendously from Taylor’s efforts to

promote his music and generally help out his career. “I’ve been speaking directly to her, like I always do,”

Ed replied to one Instagram user who slammed him for saying nothing on the matter. In her Tumblr post,

Taylor her issue with the sale this way: “This is my worst case scenario.

This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a

contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden

to men who had no part in creating it.” She continued: “When I left my masters in Scott’s hands,

I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I

imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’

escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they

both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity.

That means forever.” She added, “Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should

own anything I create,” then told young fans to remember, “you deserve to own the art you create.”