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We hope everyone seems to be ending August safely. For some Taylor Swift followers, it definitely didn’t really feel prefer it was beginning that method, because the singer’s “Eras Tour” live shows in Vienna, Austria have been referred to as off following a thwarted terrorist plot to assault the occasions. Because it seems, Good for a Weekend host Kressi was in Europe to see a kind of exhibits. In a particular version of the Swift Report, Kressi hyperlinks again up with MK to report again on her expertise touring overseas for a live performance that wouldn’t be.
First, some context: This was Kressi’s first time leaving the USA — and she or he was making this journey as a birthday deal with to herself! New passport in hand, Kind-A Google spreadsheet planning all her outfits in place, she discovered of the cancellations as her airplane was ready to take off. When she lastly arrived and acquired affirmation that Swift wouldn’t be performing, she was confronted with a extra instant concern: her debit card data had not too long ago been stolen, and no Vienna eating places have been prepared to simply accept her American bank cards.
As soon as she obtained her bearings (and one thing to eat!), she was ready to soak up what was taking place across the metropolis. Whereas she thought it was “unsafe” the way in which Swifties dressed of their finest live performance outfits gathered en masse within the city sq. (“I imply, they have been nonetheless arresting folks [involved in the terror plot] — they might have been wherever”), she did respect the sentiments of solidarity, particularly from Viennese folks. “Everybody was so good,” Kressi says. “All the shopkeepers have been like, ‘Have been you right here for the live performance?’ All the shops and eating places have been enjoying Taylor Swift. Everybody was sporting the bracelets, even the waiters and the workers at shops. It was like an enormous sense of neighborhood, and like, ‘We’re going to get by means of this collectively.’”
Nevertheless, she’s torn about Swift’s personal response to the occasions. On the finish of the day, the Good for a Weekend hosts agree Swift’s eventual assertion on the occasions was effectively crafted, regardless of the 2 weeks of silence instantly following the cancellations. It’s what Swift and her group did previous to releasing that assertion that left a nasty style in each the hosts’ mouths.
“I discovered it fairly distasteful for her to launch a music video earlier than the assertion, says Kressi. “She ought to have waited every week… I’d get an e-mail on my cellphone, a notification from Taylor Nation. ‘Oh are they going to say one thing?’ And it’d be like, ‘Guess what? Extra merch! Guess what? One other model of this music you’ve already heard!’ Like, come on. Can’t you simply be like, have every week of silence? One thing actually scary simply occurred and it may have been actually unhealthy, and also you’re pushing merch when you understand everybody’s continuously refreshing your feed pondering you’re gonna say one thing quickly. And it’s the identical feeling with the music video; it’s like, persons are wanting pondering you’re gonna say one thing at any second and also you’re sharing a live performance music video — not even a superb one. You couldn’t have waited every week?”
MK, in fact, has some ideas on all this as effectively, so take heed to Good for a Weekend report again from Taylor Swift’s canceled Vienna live shows and extra as a part of this month’s Swift Report above. Help our present by subscribing to and reviewing GFAW wherever you get your podcasts, and be part of the dialog by means of Discord, playlists, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter right here.
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