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We hope everyone seems to be ending August safely. For some Taylor Swift followers, it actually didn’t really feel prefer it was beginning that means, because the singer’s “Eras Tour” concert events in Vienna, Austria have been known 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 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 US — and he or she 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 rapid concern: her debit card data had not too long ago been stolen, and no Vienna eating places have been prepared to just accept her American bank cards.
As soon as she bought her bearings (and one thing to eat!), she was ready to absorb 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 admire the emotions of solidarity, particularly from Viennese folks. “Everybody was so good,” Kressi says. “The entire shopkeepers have been like, ‘Had been you right here for the live performance?’ The entire shops and eating places have been taking part in Taylor Swift. Everybody was carrying the bracelets, even the waiters and the workers at shops. It was like a giant sense of neighborhood, 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 assertion on the occasions was nicely 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 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 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 tune 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 might have been actually unhealthy, and also you’re pushing merch when you recognize everybody’s continually 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 a very good one. You couldn’t have waited every week?”
MK, in fact, has some ideas on all this as nicely, so hearken 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. Assist 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 right here.
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