People going to multiple Eras dates are selfish

[BlowDryRat]

I'm not a Swiftie but DD is a fan and I signed up for the waiting list last year. No code, everything sold out so I assumed I wasn't going to get tickets. Yesterday, I got an email from Ticketmaster with a code for Wembley this weekend and managed to get 4 tickets. DD and friends are delighted.

Other friends are still desperately hoping for tickets, either this weekend or in August. I've seen lots of posts on MN and elsewhere by people in the same boat. Then I've seen other posters saying they, or someone they know, have been/are going multiple times. I just don't understand this mentality. You've seen it once, you know there are thousands of people hoping for that opportunity and not everyone will be able to go because there aren't enough tickets for everyone who wants one. Why take more than your fair share?

YABU - them's the breaks.
YANBU - it's selfish.

The only problem I have is where they are using airplanes to go to multiple countries but then I'm a miserable environmentalist

Also Swift, stop using private jets

I'll take my miserable self off now

None of the whole experience is "fair" though is it? It's not fair some people can't afford it, it's not fair she isn't going close enough to some people to be able to get there, and dear old Tay Tay is sucking up way more than her fair share in her monstrous carbon footprint for the tour. Fairness is all relative I suppose.

Goodness some folks really take it very seriously don’t they, you’d never think it was just a gig,

People who own multiple houses are also selfish

Well, I went to see my favourite singer eight times last year, so I can hardly talk. 🤷‍♀️ 😅

Just be glad you are going

I mean it’s a free country, it’s not a life’s need to see a Taylor Swift concert so of course there is going to be no mechanism to ration it out . First world problems!

😂😂😂

Oh give over.

Selfish is letting everyone pre order your new album to "get the code to buy concert tickets". When it really does fuck all. AND then releasing three versions of the same album with more songs on it so the album everyone preordered is obsolete before it even arrives at their house.

Then 18 months later pulling a similar stunt by surprise announcing a second part to an album that everyone bought TWO hours ago.

No its not.

Did TS actually do this?!

Respectfully. No its not.

It may be just a concert but it’s still indicative of the attitude of most people to life, as the posts here show. Take what you want and what you can get and if others miss out, then that’s just tough.

Neo-liberalism has really done a number on our society.

So, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
You need to calm down

It is unquestionably selfish.

I don't think that's okay at all, but I can't get worked up about gig tickets.

I have friends who managed to catch the show in Paris with their young teens in early May, have tickets this week for London and tickets to see her in Milan in July. They are having a wild time and feel fortunate to be able to experience this phenomenon with their girls and their girls friends. The Swiftie sensation will pass in short course or/and their girls will grow out of it. But for now - they are gigs, not basic human needs!
The tickets are for sale, their kids are huge Swifties, the money is not stolen. What does fair have to do with it!

I'd love to see her. I think people going to multiple Eras gigs are skint rather than selfish.

Yes and no.

I disagree with the comment that the code for the exclusive Midnights pre-sale did "fuck-all". I think most people that had it found it pretty great for being able to get tickets, it was still competitive and cheaper tickets went quickly, but a hell of a difference to general sale. It also gave us access to every single UK & Ireland date, most people with codes only got to try for one location.

She did encourage pre-orders for Midnights only to release a '3am Version' 3 hours after release with 8 extra tracks which were not included in the physical versions pre-ordered. Same with TTPD, encourages pre-orders, then upon release there are 15 extra tracks on an extended version which are not on the physical versions pre-ordered. Pretty crappy.

Is there no end to the communist revolutionary spirit?

Well - if people will pay an arm and a leg to see her and she is spending her time and energy both to create and entertainment millions around the world - that will most likely result in billionaire status - which she has.
And given the amount of joy literally billions get from her being alive and doing what she does - absolutely good on her!

Good grief you can’t police how many concerts people go to. I went to Murrayfield for all 3 nights. Night one myself and DD went with my best friend and her DD, I was given the tickets for Christmas from my best friend who also got DD a ticket for her Christmas. Night 2 I ended up having to go with my nieces because my sister caught covid and didn’t want to spread it in a stadium of thousands of people. Night 3 DH had got myself, DSD’s mum, DSD’s and DD hospitality tickets as a surprise Christmas gift. The jealousy about people going to more than one gig is awful. I spoke to a good few people at the gig who had been to numerous dates on the Eras tour all over the world. My DD, nieces and DSD’s have been massive swifties for years and it was really lovely to see them having a ball at the gigs.

I got codes pre ordering an album, we (and many others) were also was offered hospitality because they were season ticket holders.

I mean, it’s not fair that there are children starving in Gaza either is it. Life isn’t fair. This really doesn’t seem like a reasonable thing to be getting het up about.

Well there’s definitely no end to the mercenary, neo-liberalist ‘me, me, me’ attitude. A selfish society is no society at all.

I'm going to more than one date - I don't feel particularly selfish. I bought two tickets for one date with a presale code and the other date I got lucky by getting the ticket of someone who dropped out - very excited!

I don't think I've ever known a huge artist go on tour where people haven't gone multiple times!

The midnights release codes actually did a lot, everyone who I know got tickets did it via midnights code.

The multiple album variants is something she's done since forever, different coloured / coded ones. People don't have to buy them if they don't want to! The TTPD second variant isn't even available to physically purchase, it's available to listen to for free on music streaming sites. Deluxe album editions are nothing new 🤷