Posted on 01/02/2018 9:42:12 AM PST by Red Badger
What is Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” worth? Not the jacked-up prices she’s charging for concert tickets.
That’s the verdict from ticked-off fans, who are balking at buying seats for the 28-year-old pop star’s tour to promote her new “Reputation” album, citing stratospheric markups and greedy sales gimmicks.
“I paid $150 for my ticket with amazing seats for the 1989 tour. Now for the same seats I have to pay about $500,” Twitter user “swiftieloves” recently griped.
A look at Ticketmaster’s interactive seat charts confirms that Swift’s schedule of 33 dates for the North American “Reputation” tour has yet to produce a single sellout, from its May 8 launch in Phoenix to its Oct. 6 finale in Arlington, Texas.
That’s despite seats being available to the general public since Swift’s birthday on Dec. 13. By comparison, all the dates on Swift’s “1989” tour in 2015 “sold out within minutes,” according to concertsandsports.com.
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Could be a rebellion against Ticketmaster. I ordered five tickets for The Lion King in May and the Ticketmaster fees totaled $95.
My summer jobs paid $1.65/hour, the minimum wage. I could go to top act shows for,two hours of minimum wage teen jobs! Good old days, indeed. Today, a min wage job would take about 10 hours to buy a TS ticket. (Does TS stand for Tough Sh!t"?)
KSHE was the "underground" FM station in St. Louis -- no commercials at all. That was so sweet.
Of my many musical regrets, not catching Roy Buchanan live is a pretty big one. I only recall going to the Spectrum once. It was 1974 and my cousin and I went to see the Grateful Dead. They were the only act and the show started at 9 PM. We got there right at 9 and left around 1:45 AM and they were still playing. Not really my sort of Dead which was the “Live Dead” double record era from 1968 which is where I first saw them in San Diego. I never remember the cost of tickets being much more than a six pack of decent beer.
A “Used Cars” reference!
AWESOME!
You’d have to pay me $500 to go see those groups.
I saw McCartney, Stones, Neil Young, Dylan, Neil Young, The Who, and Pink Floyd at Desert Trip in 2016 over three evenings for $700 (30% of face value).
Nothing will top that, am no longer interested in live concerts, but patronize our local live venue the Coachhouse.
Her latest top 40 thing is porn
Luckily for me all my old favs are old and doing the festival and fair circuits...............
Love that dude!
Yeah, but staying home means you have to supply your own essence of pot.
And to get the true experience, you’ll need to have a family member or friend spill beer on you.
(The clean up afterwards sucks...unless of course, you’re tv is outside )
Plus, what good is it to watch a concert, if nobody stands up in front of you?
Lol. I can get into club to see a good blues band for a fraction of the cost of TSs pop pap.
Just wait.
In 25 years she’ll be doing the State Fair and Hog Jowl Festival circuits and you can see her for 20$.................
Lol, I saw KISS with my parents and STYX was the opener. I didn’t even know RUSH existed back then. Years later I got hooked on the sound of that Jetglo Rickenbacker 4001!
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Kind of nasally and whiny.
No real vocal talent.
They promote her as a fashion/clothes horse, or glam type, but really isn’t.
It take A LOT of WORK to create and project her image.
She/they can only sustain it so long.
Everyone rises to their own level of incompetence, or the musical equivalent thereof.
Someone thought this was a good idea
Her fan base is so young, I don’t know where they got the idea they could afford this, unless they’re just charging the prices scalpers charged for the last tour.
Plus, what good is it to watch a concert, if nobody stands up in front of you?
BTW, Another downside of concerts is the sound quality. My system at home fed directly from the sound board at the concert, sounds a lot better than most of the seats at the concert.
I saw Joni Mitchell’s “Shadows & Light” tour and Linda Ronstadt’s “What’s New” tour (w/Quarterflash) at Blossom Music Center.
Incredible venue!!!
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