Did anyone enjoy Taylor but felt at 3.5 hours it…. dragged a little?

Stop gloating on here and think of what you've just witnessed

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I've looked at the artist on the stage of every concert I've been to, and ones viewed on tv etc. Never once have I wondered when they'll change their outfit.
As for saying 'eh?' in real life, it's a fairly common expression so.....

I’m not a fan but found out at the weekend that my granddaughter is, so we spent the weekend singing and dancing to Taylor Swift. (For context her mum likes metal / rock so would never willingly admit that her daughter likes TS as it’s not cool 🤣). We had such a lovely time while maungy DD sat with a cats bum face 🤣

Even if I’d known in time that she was we wouldn’t have been able to get tickets, I’ve been looking for tribute acts to take her to. I reckon she’d love it. Has anyone seen any good ones?

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Of course that’s not abuse. But what his fans say to other people who aren’t fans, the death threats they put to her exes and sometimes her exes new partners - that’s abuse. My point was a comment on some of her fans and their behaviour and the fact that if you say ‘Gald you love her, she’s just not for me’ suddenly it’s okay for people to say what they want to or about you. It’s not normal at all.

We all like different things and that’s great. If someone told me they didn’t like a band I liked I’d say ‘Oh okay’ I wouldn’t tell them they have shit taste in music or that they weren’t a ‘girls girl’ or were obviously a bad person.

It’s okay for the OP to say she enjoyed the gig but it was a bit long for her without people having a go at her saying she didn’t deserve to go or should shut up and be grateful. If that’s your response, you are not okay.

It's just become so tired. I see no other threads on here constantly questioning another artist like they do Taylor, and then roll in tne 'oh I vent listen to three minutes!' it's just so dull.

Being desperate doesn't make someone more deserving. Parents need to manage expectations and help inject a dose of reality. Will people enjoy seeing TS? Yes. Does anyone need to see TS? No.

OK so you'd go to her show and not look at the stage? It's a spectacle for the eyes as well as the ears

And you don't need to say 'eh?' Who says that in real life?

I think it’s the fact that if people aren’t a fan of her music, they seem to have to tell you and then they often start saying more and more and it ends up in an attack. Why is that? Obviously then, some fans will defend her because it feels very nasty.

I’m not into lots of people’s music, but I don’t feel the need to tell everyone, ask how others can possibly like them, and attack everything the artist does, including attacking their fans.

This adult human couldn’t really give a shit about TS - projecting much @Iaskedyouthrice? I am however very sympathetic to the 1000s of parents and young girls being scammed out of ££££ as they are so desperate to get tickets. If you don’t want to see her then just don’t go, leave it to someone who actually wants to be there.

I would have been flagging by 1 hour but I’m not a Swiftie. My 10yo DD definitely is and is desperate to go but have had no luck. I’m not paying £300+ per ticket either. To me, it’s a show my DD wants to see so I will do what I can for her but not to the point of falling victim to a scam or putting ourselves in debt. It’s only Taylor Swift. I’d say the same for any artist.

However, I think 3+ hours is great value for money. The outfit changes are all part of the spectacle and my DD would have loved that. Everyone I know who has been has only had good things to say about it.

Being truthful isn't nasty.

i wish people would stop slagging her off though - she does an energetic show, and friends who have been tell me the costume changes are done really fast while the dancers do the intro to the next song.

I saw elton John (at a festival so shorter than normal anyway) in the 90s. He changed his colourful blazer (no funky costumes, black trousers, black shirt and colourful jacket - perhaps he was inspired by Angela Merkel) for each sodding song. went to the side of the stage and changed jacket. It was only when my DCs were adults that one pointed out he was probably having a snort, and the jacket change was the excuse.

When i go to a gig i want all the songs i want to hear. No wittering endlessly, no tiny movements that you can't see from the back of a crowd, no endless noodling of new stuff that i don't know. Midnight Oil were perfect - most songs are shorter than 4 minutes, and they powered through 22 a night - and on a tour only about 10 were the core songs, the other 11-12 changed every night. (and they're all pushing pension age if not over it, and their last gig was 40 songs over 3.5 hours)

Again, nobody deserves a ticket more than anyone else.
Also, 'real' fans are free to pass comment, good or bad.
Telling people who deserves to go or what they can to say is a little, well, cult.

It's just nasty to brag that you don't see yourself as a fan but took a ticket and then complained you didn't like it

If you start off being nasty you shouldn't be surprised to get it back

So we're only allowed to speak of TS in a positive way? That's not logical.

Real fans do deserve the tickets, hence all of the effort made with pre-sale codes when it comes to TS.

Oh good, another thinly veiled slagTaylor swift off thread.

And if this is an attack or abuse you are just weird

The OP has merely questioned whether the set was too long. Thats it. The replies are mind boggling. An adult human actually wrote this...

Good to hear that you took a ticket that you didn’t really want OP.. I’m sure the thousands of young girls across the country desperate for one would be really sympathetic to your plight 🙄

It's just not a healthy response to a simple question is it?

Oh God.. I still get flashbacks of the two (!) Springsteen shows my husband dragged me too. I think 4.5 hours long?!! I was losing the will. Admittedly, I'm not much of a fan. But I think anything over 2.5 would be too long for me, even if I were a huge fan.

I object to what seem like unnecessary criticism- if you haven't got anything nice to say about someone perhaps don't say it

it seems bitchy when so many fans couldn't get tickets to say "I'm not a real fan and now I will critise the gig "

Especially when it always seems targeted not at the hundreds of mega big male acts - I picked on Springsteen as I know he was playing uk last month - but just oh the most successful female artist.

you know this is a discussion board so if people want to criticise they can expect others to disagree

Well said!

I don’t love to put her down, but her fans drive me wild. They think it’s okay to attack and abuse anyone who isn’t a fan. I’ve seen them claim anyone who doesn’t like her is a bad person, isn’t a ‘girls girl’, should be removed from this mortal coil. To claim she’s the only person who could pull off xyz or that other lady on the ticket thread should should be grateful to see her because they would well a kidney for the opportunity - some of her fans are entirely unacceptable in their behaviour.

I’m sure she does a good gig. But that doesn’t mean she is the only person who can pull off a decent 3 hour performance. Lots of other musicians do too and are amazing entertainers for a whole variety of reasons, why do we have to blindly accept what Taylor Swift fans say all the time? If you say you’re not a fan you’re immediately attacked and people say shit about you. It’s insane.