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.

thats not really the equivalent though. Being told to get a grip when your team lose is comparable to being really down about what surprise songs you got or them running out of the merch in the size/colour you wanted. Men aren't told to get a grip for simply looking forward to attending, doing chants, cheering for their team, saving up and choosing to spend a good amount of their disposable income on a season ticket, or looking forward to sharing the experience with their child...

Personally, I'm more bemused by all the friends of mine I've seen go, and acting like they've been living and breathing Taylor Swift for the past 20 years and are her biggest super-fans.
When in reality, in all the years I've known them, I've literally NEVER heard them even mention her name before.

Well for my husband I’d say regularly.

Fair play to her - over 3 hours of singing is a gruelling tour- due to take 1.5 billion by Xmas and that doesn't include merch or the movie.
I'm watching it on Disney Plus now (cost to me £4.99!) and the production value is high. Her voice sounds a bit strained occasionally though.
She's worked hard. Hard to believe that just six years ago her Reputation tour didn't sell out at all and now every dick and his dog's a Swiftie.
I know her Lockdown albums were popular and TikTok's a huge thing now but it must be FOMO/framing the tour as an unmissable Event.

Most absolutely I would say this to men. I find all the football devotion to teams etc equally fucking tiresome. So yes.

I never mention her if someone asks me what music I like because of judgemental women going "Urgh, she's for tweens and teens" quite frankly.

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Yes actually!

I bet you have more than enough discretionary income to choose to spend that much if you prioritised it. How much do you spend on holidays, eating out, clothes, gym memberships, hobbies, theatre in a year?

Have to say just having gone as the parent of a swiftie who actually loved the show I'm watching tonight's live stream and wanting to go see it again......

Idiots panic buying and stock piling toilet roll during lockdown has absolutely no relevance to music fans attending more than one concert on a tour.

Get a bleeding grip OP.

So how would that work in practical terms?

I'm not saying it should be policed. I'm saying I think people should be more considerate of others.

My dd has been twice. She’s had a shit couple of years and TS is her idol, I wouldn’t begrudge her that.

We also met some lovely American ladies who had seen TS many times in the US and had been at Murrayfield and Anfield where we met them before flying home. They were in hospitality at Anfield so not faffing with codes or limiting anyone else’s chances as they were sold via the club before general release. If they care enough (and want to spend enough) to go to that much effort to see her multiple times they deserve it imo.

You don't 'do' fun, do you?!

All it means is that someone else may well be getting a multiple set of tickets. I don't think you will find many people so self-sacrificing for complete strangers! It's ludicrous!

Whats great about Taylor is how she has a message for so many situations. Like when she said

"The worst kind of person is someone who makes you feel bad, dumb or stupid for being excited about something"

Yes to this.

It's optional.

And the UK doesn't operate on the basis of "from each according to his ability; to each according to his needs."

An acquaintance got tickets for 2 nights in Liverpool. I do think it’s greedy knowing many who couldn’t get any.

Why doesn't Swift do more concerts if the demand for tickets is so high? Or do some big outdoor concerts at Knebworth etc?

Most people are selfish. Wealthy people more than others.

Because she's a human being

Exactly!

"More"? She's doing 152 3-hour gigs!

YABU, my daughter had an access code it allowed her to buy 4 tickets, on release day she purchased three for Friday and went with a friend and me, and then bought a single ticket for herself for the Saturday She paid the normal ticket price, and didn't try to cash in by reselling at a stupid price. She first saw her when she was 12, and at 26 she buys her own tickets, her choice to go twice. I could understand if people were booking blocks of tickets and then selling them on for profit, but if are allowed to buy 4 then I don't feel this is excessive.

If only everyone was as caring and sharing as you the world would be a better place. Never taking more than your fair share. The rest of us can only aspire to be so selfless.