I confess I like almost every other parent in Australia tried to score Swift tickets for my daughter. I lost days of my life to this. That bloody Ticketek, I never want to see it ever again. What a cruel bitch it is. I tried other sites but got scared after Ticketek told us they wouldn’t let us in if we had those tickets. I almost got scammed on Facebook, I tried the last minute resells, I entered every competition I could find, and I failed. At all of it. I saw people who had tickets trying to get more tickets to go twice, that pissed me off. But what really pissed me off was how expensive it all was. Let’s consider that a huge proportion of Swift’s fan base are tweens, and some tickets were literally a thousand and up, it felt cruel. She has such a loyal and dedicated fan base who would do anything to get tickets, including going into debt, going without food, putting themselves in very shitty financial situations all to score tickets to Tay Tay. And Swift, who I completely acknowledge is working her ass off, is getting billions out of this. I also acknowledge she has a lot of people to pay and touring costs a lot of money but still... Then there’s the merchandise, $40 for a plastic drink bottle? $40 for an oversized tea towel? Come on. People can’t even afford to live right now. Its gross. When did everything become so expensive. When did it cost $20000 to see your favourite artist perform, as I have seen one man pay. When did Air BnB’s start cancelling bookings so they could relist at twice the price? It is insane. I sincerely hope everyone who goes along gets their money’s worth and has a damn good time. I mean she is performing for over 3 hours. I hope people don’t get smashed with hail as the Sydney weather is predicting. I hope beautiful memories are made, but I’m still pissed. I do feel conflicted about my bitterness, I am all for raising up other women, or so I thought. Maybe if we had succeeded and I was going to the concert I wouldn’t feel so cynical? But I couldn’t help but feel it was a little off using the Grammys to announce her next album. It is a night to celebrate ALL artists and in that moment, it became the Taylor show. But then again, the world is the Taylor show right now isn’t it? And maybe I am just being sour, maybe jealous? I mean on the flip side, bloody good on her, she is killing it. So now I am avoiding social media until she fucks off out of the country as it only makes me feel worse seeing all the videos of the concert we didn’t get to see. So don’t send me any videos, I’ll just pout and complain. #cruelsummer #badblood #lookwhatyoumademedo
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