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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 means, because the singer’s “Eras Tour” concert events in Vienna, Austria had been called 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 type of reveals. 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 aircraft was ready to take off. When she lastly arrived and acquired affirmation that Swift wouldn’t be performing, she was confronted with a extra speedy concern: her debit card data had not too long ago been stolen, and no Vienna eating places had been prepared to just accept her American bank cards.
As soon as she received her bearings (and one thing to eat!), she was ready to soak up what was occurring across the metropolis. Whereas she thought it was “unsafe” the best way Swifties dressed of their finest live performance outfits gathered en masse within the city sq. (“I imply, they had been nonetheless arresting individuals [involved in the terror plot] — they might have been wherever”), she did recognize the emotions of solidarity, particularly from Viennese individuals. “Everybody was so good,” Kressi says. “All the shopkeepers had been like, ‘Had been you right here for the live performance?’ All the shops and eating places had been enjoying Taylor Swift. Everybody was carrying the bracelets, even the waiters and the workers at shops. It was like an enormous sense of group, and like, ‘We’re going to get by this collectively.’”
Nonetheless, 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 statement on the occasions was effectively crafted, regardless of the 2 weeks of silence instantly following the cancellations. It’s what Swift and her staff did previous to releasing that assertion that left a foul 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 per 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 per week of silence? One thing actually scary simply occurred and it might have been actually dangerous, and also you’re pushing merch when you recognize everybody’s consistently refreshing your feed considering you’re gonna say one thing quickly. And it’s the identical feeling with the music video; it’s like, persons are trying considering you’re gonna say one thing at any second and also you’re sharing a live performance music video — not even an excellent one. You couldn’t have waited per 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 concert events and extra as a part of this month’s Swift Report above. Support our present by subscribing to and reviewing GFAW wherever you get your podcasts, and be part of the dialog by Discord, playlists, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter here.
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