Just like on that song by Justin Bieber, “You can go and f yourself.” They changed the lyric for the radio, because if it had been left to stand, people would have heard it and complained.*
The lyric is ‘you should go and love yourself’. There is no version of that song which says ‘fuck yourself’. The whole point of it is that it subverts expectations.
I’ve never listened closely enough to Ed Sheeran’s lyrics to form an opinion. I have heard people complain about him singing about the “shape of you” or whatever. That doesn’t bother me. It wouldn’t bother me if a black singer or rapper sang about the “shape of you” either. A woman could sing that about a man. If it was “the shape of the slut”, that would obviously be a different matter. As to the other Ed Sheehan lyric quoted earlier, a woman could write lyrics about a man, “do you have a history of leading girls on?” This is not the same as directly using the word “slut” which is a direct insult and leaves no room for interpretation or context.
So you only object to misogyny if it’s explicit language, but you don’t have a problem with lyrics which perpetuate the harmful idea that women are shallow and vapid and choose high status men at the expense of nice guys who actually love them. You’re entitled to that view, but I think you should question why you’re unhappy with one and not the other, and in particular whether there is racial bias playing into your feelings.
As I said earlier, if a man shouted slut at me in the street, do you think I’d care if he was white or black? Really? It’s the fact it’s coming from a man that would affect me.
I’m sure this is true but I don’t think it’s totally relevant to what we are discussing.