Posted on 08/01/2023 5:40:38 PM PDT by Drew68
Taylor Swift, an apparent strong believer in Trickle-down economics, is reportedly giving six-figure bonuses to all of the truckers carrying her equipment around the country for her Eras Tour. TMZ reports that each trucker was given a $100,000 bonus check after her show last Saturday in Santa Clara, California.
Around 50 truckers received the bonus, which works out to about $5 million in money from Swift. That may sound like a lot – and it is – but please keep this in mind: TMZ says the nationwide tour has made over $1 billion in sales. It could end up being the highest-grossing tour of all time.
The checks are reportedly “end of tour” bonuses, according to TMZ. The U.S. leg of The Eras Tour officially comes to a close August 9 after six shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. After that, Swift and her crew will head down to Mexico.
Ever the giver, Swift has also reportedly given out bonuses to band members, dancers, lighting and sound technicians, caterers and others. However, we don’t know just how much they were given.
We’ve previously reported that those 50-ish trucks carry just about everything for the concerts, including all the costumes, color-coded microphones, the mossy house, illuminated bikes, musical equipment, massive LED screens and illuminated staging. Oh, and don’t forget all the speakers, lights and just about everything you’d need to put on an over three-hour-long concert. Dozens of these trucks show up over a week before the shows are actually set to begin, and it makes sense. Taylor isn’t exactly packing light.
She’s a leftist, but remembering the unheralded people who help you become successful is a good trait.
True dat.
I'd be willing to bet that if you got stuck in an elevator with Taylor Swift, she wouldn't know much about anything except songwriting and the music business.
Watching a recent documentary about her, it became clear that every move she makes has been choreographed by her handlers since she was a teenager.
Boy do I give a c**p.
Hard not to be cynical in an upside down world.
Good on Taylor.
> Good on Taylor. <
Awhile back I read an article about how Taylor Swift made a surprise visit to an old WW2 vet who was a fan of hers. I was very impressed! And I won’t lie. It brought a tear to my eye.
Then I read about how Swift’s publicity team orchestrated the whole thing. They brought in cameras, reporters, etc. Aw, hell. Must every good deed be done with an ulterior motive? I suppose that I should be less cynical. But I can’t. Today’s America has, in a way, ruined me.
Taylor Swift does as she's told. It's really quite sad. She's the biggest music star in the world but hasn't got an independent thought in her head. Every move she makes is choreographed by her handlers, and has been for the past 15+ years.
Someday some historian will write a book about this.
And I say this as an absolute fan of her music.
Certainly a GOOD gesture on her part.
However.. the decisions she supposedly makes FINANCIALLY are a result of DIRECT GUIDANCE by her Dad, Scott Swift.
Swift, when Taylor was young and the family first moved to Nashville, was an already SUCCESSFUL and adept Certified Financial planner and money manager.
I'm not intending to diminish her, BUT, any FINANCIAL GENIUS attributes bestowed upon her actually belong to her VERY INTELLIGENT father Scott.
The only other thing I can HONESTLY say, that has already been stated by someone else on this thread is, like Britney Spears, Taylor Swift is also "Queen of the Auto-Tune gang."
Her monetary SUCCESS and earnings are based on her PUBLISHING ROYALTIES, which she totally controls, and her MASSIVE and EXPENSIVE TECHNOLOGICAL STAGE performances.
To put it SIMPLY... if SCOTT SWIFT were your father you too would be RICH!
I hear mostly negative things about her so who knows.
> Taylor Swift does as she’s told. It’s really quite sad. <
That’s my suspicion as well. And it reminds me of the way Elvis was treated. He could have had a long and very pleasant career. But his handlers just didn’t want that. They had other ideas.
> And I say this as an absolute fan of her music. <
I really like Taylor’s early stuff. And I wish her well. I just hope she can avoid ending up like Elvis did.
This is a very apt comparison.
If she is an adherent to The Church of AGW religion, how can she justify 50 trucks burning petroleum just so she can sing songwriting?
I don’t recall Swift has ever spoken up about environmental issues. If she has, feel free to correct me.
Bob Hope had a huge publicity team when he visited the troops……that’s the way it is .
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It was just an educated guess as I am pretty sure she is a big proponent of left-wing causes such as LGBTQ. She is pro abortion and a Trump hater.
> Bob Hope had a huge publicity team when he visited the troops……that’s the way it is . <
True that. But in Taylor Swift’s case, does Taylor control the publicity team, or does the publicity team control Taylor?
Anyway, it’s time for a Bob Hope story. My late father was a WW II naval officer. And one day Bob Hope visited his base. Hope told many good jokes. Everyone laughed. A good time was had by all.
Then some guy made an announcement on the PA system. All female personnel must leave the area, immediately. So all the female personnel left. Bob Hope then returned, and he told the most vulgar and disgusting jokes possible.
My father was both surprised and shocked. That’s war, I guess.
“”””Bob Hope had a huge publicity team when he visited the troops””””
Are you talking about the huge show biz performances?
You watched an entire documentary about Taylor Swift? I can’t WAIT to be retired.
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