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re: Can someone explain the Taylor Swift concert phenomenon to me?
Posted on 8/13/23 at 1:12 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Posted on 8/13/23 at 1:12 pm to boogiewoogie1978
People are sheep.
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Posted on 8/13/23 at 2:44 pm to themetalreb
The only way Taylor isn’t the average woman is that she isn’t fat
Posted on 8/13/23 at 2:45 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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The Weeknd has been on a sold out stadium world tour for over a year now. Ed Sheeran sells out everywhere. So does Bad Bunny. Ya'll put this bland-arse bitch on a pedestal for no reason.
You named a bunch of bland arse artists
I still think it’s embarrassing that you’re I assume a grown man but that you keep up with modern music still
Posted on 8/13/23 at 3:00 pm to DeltaTigerDelta
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The Beatles and Stones being 50X more talented
No debate about that!
Posted on 8/13/23 at 4:04 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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The Weeknd is this year and holds Guinness records for most streams and subscribers. Ed Sheeran, Shakira, Miley Cyrus, and Ariana Grande all have more Spotify listeners than her.
I do not put Taylor Swift on pedestal. This just isn't true. The Weeknd is the only artist you've listed with more Spotify listeners than Swift. Some of those artists have a song or songs that have more listens than any given Swift song, yes; but they do not have more listeners.
All of those artists are huge, but none of them are going to have the largest tour grosses ever, as Swift is about to. I'd guess Beyonce is the one you left off who could get close, but her current stadium tour hasn't generated the buzz, traveling psychos, and ticketing issues that the Swift one has.
Looking up The Weeknd's tour, it has supposedly grossed $311 million on 64 dates, mostly stadiums. Reports suggested Swift made close to $600 million on the first 52 dates, before she added a bunch of dates in Latin America and another round of US dates. Everyone is predicting over $1 billion for the whole thing. No one has ever done that. She's bigger than those other people, good or not.
Posted on 8/13/23 at 8:23 pm to boogiewoogie1978
You literally just watched damn near every white man in America cum themselves to some loser with a banjo, but you can't figure out how pop music works?
Posted on 8/14/23 at 2:25 am to CaptainBrannigan
I don't get the TS hype either, but she's selling out the same NFL stadium 2 or 3 nights in a row.
Go check out how much her tour merch is going for on eBay. Absolute insanity.
Go check out how much her tour merch is going for on eBay. Absolute insanity.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 4:00 am to Saint Alfonzo
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Ed Sheeran, Shakira, Miley Cyrus, and Ariana Grande all have more Spotify listeners than her.
Literally demonstrably false
Posted on 8/14/23 at 6:05 am to CaptainBrannigan
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CaptainBrannigan
Pure class
Posted on 8/14/23 at 12:24 pm to Jay Are
quote:This understates it, as you are mixing gross and net. Swift is expected to gross ~$1.5B - netting $500M+ for herself (and that's before the addition of the 14 new dates).
Looking up The Weeknd's tour, it has supposedly grossed $311 million on 64 dates, mostly stadiums. Reports suggested Swift made close to $600 million on the first 52 dates, before she added a bunch of dates in Latin America and another round of US dates. Everyone is predicting over $1 billion for the whole thing. No one has ever done that. She's bigger than those other people, good or not.
Essentially, she can sell out unlimited nights at any stadium in North America (if not the world).
Posted on 8/14/23 at 12:26 pm to boogiewoogie1978
quote:A talented pop artist with a huge discography to draw from across multiple genres has an extremely dedicated fan base that has spent 17 years of their own lives getting into her music and her life + pent up demand for live shows due to covid.
Can someone explain the Taylor Swift concert phenomenon to me?
Really not that hard to understand.
quote:Is the state of music that one artist is really popular and bringing joy to the masses? Yes, it is. I know that must be very disturbing for you.
s this really the state of music right now?
Posted on 8/14/23 at 12:47 pm to boogiewoogie1978
What's the Gomlich effect?
Chef
The law of physics that states, "If one girl screams for something, it will make other girls scream. And then, it grows exponentiously until all girls within a five-mile radius are screaming."
Chef
The law of physics that states, "If one girl screams for something, it will make other girls scream. And then, it grows exponentiously until all girls within a five-mile radius are screaming."
Posted on 8/14/23 at 1:21 pm to boogiewoogie1978
She’s a very clever pop star. That’s
about it…
Posted on 8/14/23 at 3:18 pm to VOR
I go to 35-50 concerts a year, varying Genres of music, just saw Turnpike Troubadors at the Ryman, Gary Clark Jr a few weeks ago, Phish, DMB, and Widespread this year too.
Taylor's show in Nashville was better than every one of them. The production value, the fans were respectful and shut up when it was time to shut up and sang when they were supposed to sing. Taylor's one of the better writers in all of music right now and has the ability to bounce through genres. Evermore and Folklore stand up to any of the great songwriters of this generation. I wasn't a huge fan before seeing her, but I was curious what all the hype was about and I 100% understood it after leaving the show.
Taylor's show in Nashville was better than every one of them. The production value, the fans were respectful and shut up when it was time to shut up and sang when they were supposed to sing. Taylor's one of the better writers in all of music right now and has the ability to bounce through genres. Evermore and Folklore stand up to any of the great songwriters of this generation. I wasn't a huge fan before seeing her, but I was curious what all the hype was about and I 100% understood it after leaving the show.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 4:27 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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Can someone explain the Taylor Swift concert phenomenon to me?
Why care? Just turn up the heavy metal
Posted on 8/14/23 at 9:42 pm to boogiewoogie1978
My confusion over this phenomenon is that it appeared to materialize quickly.
As in, she's been very popular for a long time and it doesn't surprise me she's in demand. But she seems to have hit a new height in popularity quite suddenly and at a time when I - 30s male who doesn't listen to the radio but generally knows what's going on in the world - hadn't heard about anything to really launch her to a new height.
I may well be missing something - She hadn't toured for a long time? First stadium tour? But I suspect my confusion is somewhat similar to a lot of folks who don't have their head in the sand but don't really understand how it got to this point.
As in, she's been very popular for a long time and it doesn't surprise me she's in demand. But she seems to have hit a new height in popularity quite suddenly and at a time when I - 30s male who doesn't listen to the radio but generally knows what's going on in the world - hadn't heard about anything to really launch her to a new height.
I may well be missing something - She hadn't toured for a long time? First stadium tour? But I suspect my confusion is somewhat similar to a lot of folks who don't have their head in the sand but don't really understand how it got to this point.
Posted on 8/14/23 at 10:04 pm to Pettifogger
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I may well be missing something - She hadn't toured for a long time? First stadium tour? But I suspect my confusion is somewhat similar to a lot of folks who don't have their head in the sand but don't really understand how it got to this point.
I’m pretty sure this is her first big tour since she started re-recording her music. Hence “The Eras Tour” where she’s covering an absurd amount of music in one set. She was supposed to have this tour during COVID and it got cancelled.
Apparently her 2015 tour was one of the highest grossing tours in a decade, so the established fanbase is there.
I’m not a huge fan but she apparently puts on a fantastic show. And IMO it’s reminiscent of the teen pop tours in the 90s/early 00s. I don’t view it any differently then me cramming my arse into an arena to see New Kids on the Block or *NSYNC years ago.
This post was edited on 8/14/23 at 10:06 pm
Posted on 8/15/23 at 6:33 am to BluegrassBelle
It's crazy to think about now, but I saw her open for George Strait in a half empty Cajundome. The Tears on My Guitar song had just came out. I have no clue what year it was.
Posted on 8/15/23 at 6:34 am to BluegrassBelle
The layoff/COVID thing makes some sense
Posted on 8/15/23 at 7:25 am to Grievous Angel
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Though nowhere near as hot as Spears.
jfc
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