Everything You Need to Know About Ticketmaster vs Taylor Swift 🫡
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2022
- well swifties...here it is. my commentary on the ticket master drama with the eras tour. here are all your questions answered & my thoughts on how this went awry and the concrete steps that taylor can take in order to make it right. let me know what you think in the comments...and keep it cute!
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"When is it enough?" The million dollar question. I say it with love because we all have neurosis. I think Taylor has achievement syndrome and she's probably not aware of it. She has to achieve to astronomical levels because she's looking for something outside of herself that will finally prove she's enough. There's always a new record to break, right? Remember in Miss Americana how she recounted winning for 1989 (was it album of the year grammy?) and how she felt empty because there was no one to share it with? It's easy for her to believe that was it when a healthy relationship was always out of her reach. (We can see through her songwriting that her vision of love has always been highly idealized. She worships love like a False God.) What's changed between now and then? She ran away with her lover for awhile (I'm positive she was sure the missing piece was finally found). Six years later, the piece is still missing because it's an inside job!
There's a difference between wanting to continue to learn and grow (making new music, her newfound interest in directing) and achieving for the sake of feeling enough. Either way, we benefit off her creative stamina! When we start to lean toward this "praying to your greed" territory, I get a little nervous, too! I think sometimes she can't see the forest for the trees when it comes to success and greed. We also can't forget how driven she remains to achieve a level of power that will one-up her rich and powerful enemies. But Taylor has a righteousness that I hope continues to prevent her from turning as greedy as the enemies she enjoys crucifying. Let's hope she keeps her side of the street clean!
Shes just putting out albums, songs and going on tour as usual? Her growing fan base is whats causing these records being broken it is not something she can really plan for. Absurd to make a psychological analysis of her based on this. Why does she have to be held accountable for everything all the time, no one else has to? She has been so god damn good.
Honestly pissed by that comment. You think the beatles or rolling stones had to deal with this bs? Being held on a friggin pedestal like taylor is some saint? Get off your own high horse
@@johanabanana2 preach
Wonderfully said. This situation does not seem at all fair for all the poor fans who seemed to have gone through hell to try and get their tickets.
@@johanabanana2 she’s talking about dumb VIP tickets, re-recordings, crappy merchandise, etc
She’s good at business with her promotions and marketing and tries very hard to do her best.
Taylor cared about her dating history and decided to be single during 1989 and proved her independence and success but eventually wasn’t satisfied bc she didn’t have a man?
She was another level successful and had a huge group of friends and family who were thrilled for her but she admitted to feeling dependent on someone else to feel validated
She thinks of awards and nominations as the most important part of her career but it really isn’t. She’s blind to materialism
She won’t believe some albums are great bc they didn’t win a Grammy. She ignored Speak Now and Evermore because they didn’t get her much notice but they are AMAZING 🤩
I'm so glad that you brought up Taylor's role and responsibilities in this mess. I'm so tired of seeing Swifties over 25+ ACTUAL ADULTS making it seem as if Taylor's a purified angel with no money in her mind and that she has no control over in this situation.
P.S. The last 10 minutes should be incorporated into curriculums. Amen!
she definitely has some agency!! but people will bend themselves over backwards rather than face the reality
This!! Also, as someone who bought tickets and got VIP just so I could simply go (by the time I got in that’s all that was left) im not excited over the vip “perks”….. it’s so weird especially considering how much she was flaunting the rep VIP perks before tickets went on sale. I think everyone involved including Taylor knows it’s a complete rip off and are embarrassed. I hope they do something to make VIP a little more worth it, rather than a button and tote bag lol
I literally seen more people hating on Taylor than people defending her. Like there is literally multiple hateful tweets with like thousands of likes and tiktoks blaming Taylor.
@@ayeon5609 I respect that that’s been your experience, but it has not been mine, at least in regards to Tay in general. I am FLOORED that even amid the death threats toward Ginny and Georgia star following Taylor’s defense of herself, and her silence in response to that outpouring of death threats, fans STILL will jump to her defense about this. And I am a former fan myself. But after that I was done.
Your analytical skills in such a tricky case are absolutely mindblowing.
Seriously though!! If I was a company, he’d be hired!
@@Alleellaa The only concern is that Zack is an uber contrarian. But he delivers! :)
he’s also so good at making it easy to understand for people like me
What’s so insane to me is, from a business perspective, it’s insane for Taylor NOT to take this opportunity to do exactly what she wants by addressing Ticketmaster. Taylor wants to be known for her legacy in music, her breaking of records, her impact on the industry and how she single-handedly changed it. Her taking on ticketmaster, even if she has to build a platform for ticket selling herself, maybe even alongside other industry leading artists collaboratively, which she has hundreds of millions to easily do so herself regardless, would FOREVER go down as one of the biggest moments in music history and her legend status would be solidified golden. Along with the re recordings, Apple Music, Spotify contract, this would be her thank you to fans of MUSIC, not just her own and her peers. For someone who talks about respecting art so much. THIS is the thank you that fans of music in general would never forget, that your peers will forever know you for, and the exact thank you that us fans who’ve lined her pockets for years and supported her deserve. This is exactly what she needs to distance herself from the capitalist machine she’s becoming known as. For someone so intelligent, who’s been thrown around by the industry herself, her not seeing that is honestly shocking. Someone @TreePaine.
The thing is, Taylor doesn't actually care about small artists and art as much as she says she does..her obsessive vinyl selling strategy has put SO many other artists on hold for their own vinyl production because Taylor is taking up all that space, just to make more money (nobody needs four vinyls to make a clock, that's the most blatant cash grab there is). She wants to break records when it's not too much effort to do so and makes her more and more money. Creating her own platform would be actual business work which she probably doesn't want to do because she can make so much money just by exploiting the existing system as much as possible. Perhaps it's also not feasible, but what is definitely feasible is for her to ask for better terms for her tour and therefore also for other artists..and she hasn't done that.
It's an interesting idea, but I would imagine there's more to it. TM is almost a monopoly, making it hard to get a share of the market. The venues has contracts they need to follow, and I wouldn't be surprised if there’s something in her contract prohibiting her from competing. And if there isn’t, we don't know what's going on behind the scenes, and if she is currently planning on taking them on, it wouldn't be very wise to speak up about before she's ready to pounce.
@@lfior you should address that take to Adele, ed sheeran etc and not Taylor where 100% of her vinyls sold out everywhere. Local indie stores ARENT COMPLAINING about Taylor releases cos her cds and vinyls are what makes em survived the pandemic. DUMBASS.
EXCEPT that your hot take is 100% bullshits. She can bend down spotify, apple music and master dispute of her label to her will simply because they are not MONOPOLY. If those corporates refuse her ultimatum, she still has a choice to go for another streaming services or record labels. The thing with ticketmaster is that they create an ALMOST MONOPOLY for live events so Taylor has literally no choice but to agree to work with them. If she refuse, she CANT do tour in stadiums across the USA cos most of them OWN by TM. Educate yourself and STOP ATTACKING Taylor for this issue. You all should directed the hate to TM.
Even if she could do that (which she can't since live nation and ticketmaster have a hold of all the big venues) do you really expect her to do that in TWO DAYS?
I work in the music industry and you are speaking the truth! Top tier journalism
it's all honestly really upsetting. these people (taylor and ticketmaster CEO) already have enough money to take care of their families lavishly for generations. how much more do they need? it's impossible at this point to deny that it's just pure capitalist greed
I dont think taylor is money hungry to that degree to be exact. I dont think shes doing this for the money but instead for the validation, legacy, prestige and respect of breaking records. This is already in retrospect but it was recently reported that she donated like 13.45 or something percent of her own money as bonuses for her crew as a thank you. I dont think she cares for the money itself, she cares that that money is the current symbol of success and talent. in her eyes the more money she makes the more talented she is and the better the tour is.
I have such a mix of emotions about this whole thing, because I was somehow very very lucky. I was placed near the front of the queue (only 14 people were ahead of me!) and got tickets in the 100s section (where I wanted!) for $200 plus $50 in fees for the 7/23 Seattle show. I'm overjoyed that I'm able to go, but I almost have survivor's guilt because so many of my fellow Swifties didn't get the same experience I did when they should have
Ok so here is what happened to me.
I got seats in 109 for the ...Ready for it? Package, seats were $455 each and a $120 service fee for 2 tickets. I payed over $1200 for TWO tickets for 4/22 Houston...
I was in the queue for 7 hours....
I was in the queue for 5 hours for those “49.00” nosebleed tickets that I paid 150.00/ticket for! Seattle 7/22 after my lower bowl tickets were snatched out of my cart!
I agree with the sentiment but can we stop referring to it as survivors guilt? This is a concert. People didn’t die.
@@a.nastasia.olivia yet
The international fans, like me, merely watching as the mess happens
Yo, crees que vendrá a latinoamerica?
@@monsemora2964 lo dudo, realmente lo dudo, y si viene esos boletos costaran un montón
Pues al final vino
this really showed how money hungry she can be because there’s no reason that entire sections are almost all vip seats
The VIP section didn’t address the deals before the sales cause they knew they sucked 😅
Just so you are aware, none of this was her fault. She was not even involved in this mess. It was all ticket master. So you may say that ticket master is money hungry, not her.
the way it has been six months since this happened and I’m STILL thinking about it like it was just last week 😂😭
im so glad i stumbled on your channel. im not even a swiftie but i think it's so important to critique the greed of billionaires who line their pockets with working young people's money under the pretence of a parasocial relationship at their literal expense. you do such a great job at this!!!
Me, Spanish, in Spain, with almost 0 chances to see her live this tour: this is outrageous!
John Oliver did an excellent piece on Ticketmaster a few years ago making a lot of the same great points. I agree that anti trust legislation will come (it’s one of the few bipartisan issues in the states). But yes, if Taylor just refused to tour unless Ticketmaster agreed to some basic precautions they would certainly have acquiesced. Side note-Pearl Jam is my husband’s favorite band not in the least because they do try to make getting tickets to their shows as accessible as possible. We were able to buy tickets from a fan who couldn’t make it back in 2018 for the Missoula MT show. They were nosebleeds but it was still a lot of fun. And they pretty much always have voter registration tables at their shows too. Anyway, love your thoughtful commentary as always.
John Oliver’s piece on Ticketmaster: ruclips.net/video/-_Y7uqqEFnY/видео.html
fr it was so weird to see taylor and taylornation talking about atw10 grammy nomination and stuff when people were going through all of this. the ignorance was crazy
My favorite part of this whole thing is when you said "Pearl Jam (which is a rock band)" made me feel geriatric to think that your audience needs an explanation of who they are
I'm disappointed in Taylor but some people are taking it too far. Shes clearly planning her public response and shes going to take action. People are throwing out merch and vinyl and refusing to listen to her. It's not that serious.
I will never understand ruining artist’s merch or products in general😭😭 Like your money’s already in her bank account🤡🤡
I think those people are childish and I am glad those so called fans who purposely buy lots of merchandise so they think they get priority over others lost out. Let the new fans and the ones who don’t stay online all day have a chance at tickets.
from my experience, the advertised price of $49-449 was generally honored throughout the entire sale (with the exception of VIP packages), but the fees were so high that $109 was the actual lowest TOTAL price. at my show for example, there were still $49 tickets at the very end... i wasn't able to get them because ticketmaster kept giving me errors but still
When I got in nosebleeds were $109 before fees and then had $30-40 fees on top of that. Didn’t end up buying anything because they were so much higher than expected
My friend and I put over 9 hours into planning, queues, etc. & we couldn’t score tickets… Between the bull excuses, the dynamic pricing, the fact that 90% of the tickets were VIP (for that merch? Bffr) to then moving the Capital one sale to another day, just to be met with a greyed out arena because it seems Capital one had MAYBE 5-10% of all tickets… this experience has been a NIGHTMARE and Taylor’s silence is SO LOUD at this point.
"the dynamic pricing, the fact that 90% of the tickets were VIP" the absolute lies... I get your frustration but lets not
I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.
@@Nono-ek6ne it's a hyperbole. I have no way of knowing the exact percentage, the point is that the amount of VIP tickets & their placement was unusual (which I saw he mentioned in the video as well).
its kind of unbelievable she still hasn't said anything lmfao
she will def speak out. it takes time. i bet they sit around the table
Capitalism ruins everything it touches. Thank you for really going in to the gross unethical behaviour of this evil corporation…. Also a very fair and in depth critique of Taylor’s responsibility. I’m subscribing based on this video, can’t wait to see your other stuff
I did get tickets but I am still kind of bummed because there are Swifties FAR more hardcore than I am, and I never had Loverfest tickets. I just really hope everyone who wants to see Tay can 🥺
I think that is the problem. There are just too many people who want to see Taylor live after 5 years. The supply can’t meet demand but really hoping she figured out a way to cancel the tickets on StubHub and open up a more equitable sale to verified fans.
I got two tickets to the eras tour and my service fees were 35%! I could have gotten almost a third ticket for the price of the fees.
especially when taylor's brand is so much about caring about her fans and it's like... how much do you really care about your hardworking dedicated fans if you're allowing your greed to fuck them over this much and not using your power to affect genuine change?
My eras tour ticket buying experience: In presale I sat in the queue for hours while everything glitched up and ticketmaster paused the queue and whatnot, only to get in and see the astronomical prices and VIP seats like…. everywhere, not just the front. I grabbed the first seats I could, went to checkout, only to see the insane fees. So i went back and then watched each seat disappear before my eyes. It was so annoying but also kinda hysterical as each little bubble of a seat greyed out right before i clicked on it. Luckily, I was able to do the capital one presale the next day. Waaaay less people in that line (plus I was able to have multiple tabs open for 3 different dates in the same city, so I just went with whichever line moved the fastest!) but still error messages all over the place. I clicked on different seats maybe 30 times and kept getting an error message that they “couldn’t complete my request on this device.” Finally it worked and I had to just swallow the insane ticketmaster fees BUT I was lucky to get non-VIP floor/field seats. Insane. I don’t know how it happened. I was ready to give up.
HOWEVERRRR no one should have to open a new certain kind of credit card or nearly max out their credit just to get these tickets. Thank you for explaining that MOST of this headache could have been avoided and Taylor absolutely has the power to do something about it. Swiftologist strikes again 👏🏻
No one blamed Bruce Springsteen when this happen to him. Ticket master does this to everyone. They were not prepared! They blamed the swifties, instead of owning they should have been prepared. Ticket master has too much power. They need competition!
Thank you for my therapy session!! It’s been a HORRIBLE week!!!
On another note the way you made this video was impeccable. You are a wonderful journalist/therapist. 😜
As someone who had a presale code, but am left empty handed, I really appreciate what you have to say about the situation. Thanks for your take!
The only thing you didn’t bring up that I’d like to hear your opinion about is the possibility that this tour is bigger than anything else, and how expensive it is. Something that I don’t hear often is how Taylor Swift is a major touring artist employer. I wonder if people feel they are paid properly when working with her. Although a lot of it is probably outsourced to theatre AV companies.
Also, I think we haven’t given enough time to Taylor’s team to do a well-crafted press release about this or about change. It’s been three days.
I think that it’s also important to remember all of the long time fans who didn’t receive presale codes. My first Taylor concert was Fearless, and most recently Reputation. So there are plenty of hard core fans that haven’t even gotten a chance to try for tickets yet-and I would not appreciate pushing back the general on sale date.
I think they should have done the presale by venue, not time zone. Tuesday was ridiculous. I kept getting kicked out at point-of-sale. I ended up giving up and waiting for the Capital One presale on Wednesday. For me, that was a lot smoother. It took me 30 minutes from start to finish to get my tickets.
Taylor needs to write a letter telling ticketmaster to go onto seatgeek or whatever it’s called, tell them to look at the rows and seats these price gouging tickets are on, and tell ticketmaster to refund that ticket and cancel it back onto the market. For the fans. These people are clearly not the fans and it’s obvious what their intentions are and the presale was supposed to be for the fans. That’s where it hurts. She doesn’t care about fans if she stays silent.
I'm so happy you made a video on this, your energy is something I'm needing after these awful few days!!!
I really like your long video essay types of videos. You are very well spoken and knowledgeable and I admire that. I can wait for more videos like this ❤
Everything you said in this video was so well said. Thank you for speaking for us swifties Zach.
The entire time I just kept going back to "why would they do this?! They were in charge of presale codes and times and they had time after the crash at registration to figure it out! Why would they send more codes than what they can handle?!"
I think the longer Taylor is silent, the more the pressure builds for her to offer something extraordinary to fans in her response. Like, if she’d logged on day of, she could have gotten away with “I’m sorry this has been frustrating, unprecedented demand, we’re working as hard as we can to resolve this and make the process better”. Now, she actually has to *do* something.
Given there’s been murmuring from US politicians about breaking up the Ticketmaster/Live Nation monopoly, I’m wondering if part of Taylor’s response will be sponsoring or directing fans to support legislation which will help improve artists and fans’ experience with live events.
such a well-done, thorough, and thoughtful video!!!
5:39 "I am not going to go to the us to attend these shows"
Lol Zac 🤣🤣🤣
Zach I absolutely love your style of reporting. So good to hear a mature swiftie perspective (as opposed to the hysterics I'm seeing elsewhere). I really enjoy your content, thanks for all the effort and background you do to make these videos interesting as well as accurate!
I lived this nightmare and it was very sad and unfair. I felt so tired after waiting for like 5 hours until my friend finally bought the tickets for only one show. We were planning to get for two shows. I had the boost and the code ticketmaster sent me and none of that helped.
Thank you so much for posting this video! I always love your commentary. I was personally in the queue for my entire work day and never made it to actually pick seats. The friend I’m going with luckily got in after 6 hours, but we spent twice our budget and seats kept getting scooped up. I’m lucky to have gotten tickets but it’s ridiculous that other veteran Swifties didn’t. I really think Taylor and her team need to address this issue. The whole thing was embarrassing and disappointing honestly.
I can’t believe how everything has unfolded and I appreciate your thoughts on the situation. I ended up getting a really good lower bowl seat for $265 after fees, but only because my friend’s mom was one of the very lucky few that breezed through the queue and was able to check out with our tickets within 20 minutes. I on the other hand was stuck in the queue with 2000+ in front of me the entire time and am sure that all of the reasonable tickets would have been gone by the time I made it through. So grateful that I’m able to go, but it definitely makes it harder to be excited when many of my friends got screwed over :(
Very interesting video (and great content, just subscribed !), I just survived presale for the Paris dates and I got introduced first hand to the TM issue. 8 months later today since your video, still no TM and LN break up in sight.
Thank you for making this video and bring awareness to this problem! It’s unfair me and many swifties to be promise boost for the pre-sale and get no tickets at all. Also for the system to not even worked at all! It truly breaks my heart! She needs to say something before she possibly shows all the AMAS on Sunday.
Very very much looking forward to your take on the events of today
The craziest thing about all this is how quickly the tides have turned against Taylor. If someone had told me 2 months ago Taylor would be getting this amount of backlash, for anything, I wouldn’t have believed you. I felt like she was virtually untouchable.
Been waiting for this. 🔥
This was a really well thought out video and you bought up great points. I was so disheartened by the whole process and the anticipation of if and when Taylor was gonna address it. I’m so happy she posted on her Instagram story about it yesterday.
This is the commentary we needed 👏🏼 God bless the Swiftologist!
Thank you for explaining all of this
as an international swiftie watching this video after the international dates came out and the sale happened, I waited and waited for hours for the Australian sale and the ticket I got was $600 for one vip ticket which is insane because its like the middle of the stadium, not even floor or lower bowl. Yes I'm grateful for getting a ticket but it was so annoying with ticketek not ticketmaster where there isn't even a queue.
I feel like an important aspect of the reputation pre-sale system was that Taylor took a TON of heat for that. I actually thought it was a thing Swifties hated, because I was exposed to it through articles and such that called it greedy and that taylor was money hungry and exploiting her fans. Maybe that’s also why she didn’t use it again
I didn’t really have trouble getting reputation tickets either. This is really sad. As always, you explained this super well and I hope lots of people
See this video :) 🤗
'im not going to the US leg'
Also you and madeline: " chicago night one centre diamond" 😂
18:54 Thank you. You are one of the few with sense. Some others live in denial of swift not having any part on this.
This is the first time I agree with what you say in a video specially about the merch drops and the treatment with us the fans
thank u for the wisdom i have been enlightened
Do we think Taylor will be at the AMA's on Sunday? She's up for quite a few awards, and since she's been making a lot of award show appearances lately I would kind of assume she'll be there? If she is, and hasn't addressed all of this yet, I just wonder what that will be like...
I just can't see how Taylor or even her PR team think it's a good idea to remain totally silent on this! Like, it seems like a bad PR move to NOT say anything. Even worse move to have Taylor Nation continue to post accolades and... ANOTHER REMIX!! You can't make this shit up. 😂 😭
I think you're right in reserving full judgement until this has had a little more time to play out. For all we know they could be working on a way to rectify this situation. But the silence, and now cancellation of the GP sale with no good explanation is not helping matters.
Great analysis as always! You always do such a great job at breaking it down and ELI5!
it’s the way taylor replied to that cover of anti hero on twitter on the day of presale and COMPLETELY ignored swifties’ struggles and complaints about presale prices and service 🙄. she clearly had some sort of voice in this and she really has to speak out about it. if she did accept ‘dynamic pricing’, i’m sorry to say that is just disgraceful and hurtful to the fans. the majority of fans just do not have the money to pay for $300 on a ticket; it js outrageous. taylor even posted the tour video mentioning how she wants to see us all again…well, that doesn’t seem as likely anymore. i think what taylor really needs to do is to make a statement on instagram saying that service fees should be reimbursed to affected swifties, and that she should add extra dates to accommodate the fans who missed out, also calling out ticketmaster’s unethical and misleading service. she is one of the biggest artists (if not the biggest) in the world and it’s shocking how silent she is in this situation. i am sure she really does care about us, and perhaps there is litigious side to this which prevents her from speaking out. i am hoping that a statement will be put out soon - it will be terrible and shamed upon if she doesn’t. this is in no way of me attacking taylor, i am just saying what i think is best for her to do as of right now. as an international fan, i believe this is right, and i really hope that international dates and ticket purchasing does not have this same kerfuffle.
can we all just bring up how underrated this guy is?!
Off topic but your skin looks amazing in this!!!
I think it’s insane that even floor tickets cost more than $400. Let alone starting at $700 and going up. Ridiculous that it costs more than a new MacBook or four.
Fair assessment. Hope things go well for international tour 😢
ladies and gents, it all rounds back to ........ CAPITALISM!!!! smdh.
Also, I would really love you to deep dive into the situation with Spotify in the near future!
Great video thank you!
The Apple Music deal was negotiated in back rooms before that tumblr post even went live. They probably negotiated that treadmill advert at the same time.
Thank you so much for saying FACTS, well done research and simply the truth. Swiftie or not it doesn’t matter we love taytay sincerely and support her but this also mean that we can point out what is bad, this is actually being a healthy and mature fan
Suprise! A new remix for Anti-Hero again
I was in the queue for 7 hours and there were some seats left that I was absolutely not paying for. $750 for floor seats before fees.
I agree 100%, as I was unable to secure tickets to Day 1 in Chicago, IL, even though I logged on and had a verified account and purchased tickets to Rep Tout as well. Each time I selected seats, I got a messaged stating Ticketmaster was trying to secure the seats for purchase, to only be beat by another purchaser. During the Rep Tour, getting "BOOSTS" required fans to actually watch videos, purchase merch, and other selected tasks to increase their spots in the purchasing line, and this eliminated many of the "bots" and scalpers trying to purchase tickets ahead of actual fans. This time around, scalpers, using the same HIGH SPEED COMPUTERS and SOFTWARE that stock speculators use, were able to get split seconds ahead advantage in securing the best seats ahead of fans who were using regular computers and software. It is the scalpers split second advantage, so similar to the speculative stock traders, that beat ALL swifties to the punch. Scalpers, probably thousands of them, will use this advantage at each venue and then turn around and sell those tickets on secondary market. The use of supercomputers, which give stock traders and scalpers a split second advantage over ALL others, needs to be addressed. On a different note, here in the states, we allow pure capitalism, and many different companies are perceived to price gouge and have unfair practices. Tesla, Hummer EV's, Yeezy shoes, Jordan's all have angry fans who have stories of sky high markups, but it is all allowed. Foot Locker shoe stores have store managers who hoard Jordan shoes and then resell them before actual customers can see and purchase them in store...all allowed, everyone knows this, it continues. Tesla EV's are being bought and reselled $20k above purchase price, so on, so on. I can't stress this enough, it is the use of supercomputers and their given split second speed advantage of securing seats (like with Ticketmaster), or buying stocks( on the open market before all others) that must be addressed to give all purchasers a chance.
can you please do an update to this video? also would love it if you did a ranking 3rd album singles
I also think the boosts only helped fans get a better chance at presale access and not the actual queue. It seemed to me that boosted fans with presale access were given codes for the original tour dates and those had the longer queues. It seemed if you were granted presale access to the newly added dates, you got through the queue much quicker and there was more availability.
AND THE NEWS THAT THEY ARENT BEING SOLD TO THE PUBLIC ANYMORE LITERALLY LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO
Taylor Swifts greatest fear is that her fame is going to end soon 🤷🏻♂️ Also Taylor said in an interview if she wasn’t doing music, she would have a career in business 🤷🏻♂️ I’m also disappointed that on Ticketmaster i wasn’t able to even be a verified fan, and didn’t tell me how I could, and just kept getting an error. Now I’m scared I’m not going to get any tickets because of this quote on ticketmaster
“Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow's public on-sale for Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour has been cancelled.”
It almost sounds like only verified fans will get tickets 🤷🏻♂️ doesn’t sound like public tickets will even come back, or suggest that there will be a solution and they are working on it… really pissed 🤦🏻♂️
I’ve grown a little tired of fans who were lucky enough to secure tickets to many (>2) shows complain that “they’re not the problem, scalpers are”. And it’s just like….. look, no one fan is to blame for the concert culture of going to multiple shows- there’s a history of that with Taylor’s concerts, and these fans would have bought multiple tickets before fully realising what happened to other fans. There are certainly bigger villains in all this than fans going to many shows, but at least try and *acknowledge* that multiple show culture has contributed to this mess. And maybe read the room before asking fellow fans, many of whom had far worse presale experiences, to assuage your guilt that you had better luck and/or were more ruthless in your approach.
I also don’t think it’s as clean cut an issue as many seem to be implying- this situation isn’t divided into diehard Swifties and professional scalpers. I think there have been a lot of fans who purchased more tickets than they needed (out of panic, miscommunication with friends or whatever) and then realised they could recoup the cost of the show they really want to keep/try and make some good money by reselling.
I don’t mean to make it seem like I think this is all the fans’ fault of course- imo Ticketmaster are by far the most at fault by not managing codes, boosts and website traffic properly, and Taylor/UMG should have done much more to de-incentivise reselling as well as be more transparent/ethical with VIP packages.
Agree the fan contribution, logging on through multiple systems contributing to the crash of the site as well
My experience was really bad, but the sad part is that for me and a lot of other people it was still worth it, therefore it all worked out for ticketmaster. It's just shocking that I feel like I was lucky to get tickets after waiting for five and a half hours for $600 each in lower bowl 😭
The issue for the demand is that the number of people try to use multiple devices so not necessarily just knowing the number of people. No mention of how the attempts of people to try multiple ways, to refresh continually trying to get on etc also contributes to it?
One of my coworkers got a presale code even thought she had never been to a Taylor show. She said I go to a lot of concerts in general and my husband works at one of the venues. 😂 I’ve never been to a concert either but I did buy Merch, which ended up doing absolutely nothing. Very scared for general sale.
I bought Lizzo tickets and nose bleed tickets were not that high. VIP tickets in undesirable areas aka nose bleeds, I thought was wild. I hadn’t thought of Taylor’s culpability until now. I was just so pissed at Ticketmaster. Great, analysis thanks.
Wa super worried when my code was through seat geek. I didn't think I would get tickets and somehow got very lucky and got face value tickets. Thank you Seat Geek.
You’re the G! Presenting fax as always!
And also, I would honestly love a Lana Del Rey video from you!!
I got messaged the wrong city so I kind of avoided the whole mess. I am legit scared of what can happen on Friday. I haven't seen Taylor in concert and I really hope that I can see her!
When we are going to get a new ep of the evolution of a snake 😭😭 i just discovered it one month ago and i already listened to all the episodes and I'm starving 😭
Same we need that 2016 episode
I got a pre sale code the night before, joined ‘The waiting room’ at 9:30am and was in a queue from 10am-3pm waiting around for the site to crash and start up, crash and start up again ect… once I finally got into the seat map to purchase my tickets I was so anxious and the tickets kept appearing & disappearing so fast and all the floor seats/ lower bowl were gone. Then magically 2 third row floor seats popped up and I was able to purchase them both ($349 each). I’m still shocked i got them and I think someone must have had them
In their cart and the cart expired and it was good timing for me…. So happy I got tickets but feel so bad for everyone else involved in the chaos of that day…
I'm sorry this happened to fans in the us.
I hope this tour is the one when she finally decides to come to Argentina/Latin America. There are a lot of swifties here.
Well, at least now most of us who didn't get tickets (cough Cough international fans) can all get a floor show (watching online clips of the tour from the comfort of our bedrooms) 😌 just like the US fans.
exactly! Like yeah it's sad that some US people didn't get tickets, but the truth is most international fans from non-english countries won't be able to see Taylor (unless you wanna use what would be like thousands of dollars to travel to another place, have a hotel and the tickets themselves - a lot of money that most people don't have just lying around;(((( )
@@emmakristineandersen4720 or like me, have a visa restriction for the US anyway and can't travel.
@@patax144 yes precisely
Literally, US swifties' level of entitlement is insane! some of us international fans have been swifties since '07 and never been to a Taylor concert before!
@@horrorfanatic1734 tell me about it, this would be the one tour where Taylor could decide to actually tour the world because she has never had this many fans, and yet she chooses to add 500 dates of touring in the US. Fuck this
We need international dates too. So many Canadians for example had to buy US tickets because we aren’t sure if she’s coming here. I’m guessing some international fans did the same. Idk if she’s considering canada as “international” for the first time. It’s very strange and I wish she would have announced at least another leg of the tour before the US ones went on sale.
Taylor and Tree Paine are fumbling the PR bag as they normally do!!!
honestly for someone so obsessed with their brand and image the way taylor is, you'd think she would be more careful and make smarter business moves that still make her look good to the general public...yikes
yeah i’m very convinced the boosts didn’t do anything. i only got a ticket because my friend (who didn’t have a boost btw but i did) was ahead of me in the queue and she was nice enough to get me a ticket. there were 18,000 people in front of me 😭
Same! I'm the only one of my friends with a boost (from merch) and 2 of my friends made it through the queue before me. One of them got booted back to the queue at checkout though due to an "error"
@@TaylorsVersio13 How did you know if you had a boost?
omg i just voted for this title on twitter
bring this video up in the court case against ticketmaster lmao
I have to say though,as an internation fan I'm glad this happened to the US ,so that by the time international is announced they would've fixed it. Hopefully
I waited over 9 hours in the queue, and when it was finally my turn, no tickets left. Very disappointed that Taylor Nation keeps posting about remixes and refuses to address the situation. Their silence is deafening at this point. Not sure I even want to try again for tickets tomorrow honestly.
I waited in line for 6+ hours with a boost and I must have been behind most people because by the time I got in, everytime I would try to buy tickets, I would either get an error code or someone would buy them before me. They were only releasing like two seats per section by seconds. This was a disaster. I’m scared for the general sale. I’ve been a fan (on and off since her first album, but consistently since 2017) for so long and I’ve never been able to see her. It makes me sick to think I may not be able to see her yet AGAIN. Another tour I would have to wait for. And to top it all off, the person I was supposed to go with ghosted me, yet they’re stalking my social media. 😂
Something else, a lot of people I know were able to get tickets during presale and they didn’t even have codes. Apparently in some states there was not even a place to input codes for the first few hours, so. If you had access to the link for the queue you could just get tickets regardless of a code. Also I was given a code so I queued immediately and after about four hours I was kicked to the back of the queue. At that point I heard the prices were in 5he ultimate thousands for nosebleeds, so I decided to just log out.
I'm a new swiftie and know NOTHING about business (or Taylor's past ticket sales) but even I was sitting there in the queue for 4 hours thinking the following:
- why didn't they do one state per day, less traffic on the site.
- people who got a boost should have had a time frame. example - boost would be 9am and no boost/just presale code would be 10am.
- we should have entered our access code just to get IN the queue.
- since there were 6 tickets max per person, they should have anticipated the amount of codes x 6. (that's how many seats should be available)
- all tickets should be non-transferable so resellers wont bother. if someone cant go to the concert, they get refunded, ticket goes back on sale
- also to prevent scalpers, attach tix to the last 4 digits of the credit card. make them MATCH to get concert entry
With how famous & successful she is, I'm sure she could have played a bigger role in this ESPECIALLY when I heard fans say the Rep tickets were so easy. The only way I can see Taylor not being responsible for anything is if he was a new artist and it was her first concert. She has been in the game way too long for this to happen. If Rep was so much smoother, she should have done it the same way.
Update Taylor did not use dynamic pricing in fact she rejected it and she announced the prices weeks in advance to ticketmaster so yeah. This is not hate at all it's just information
The problem of monopolies and oligopolies is so much bigger than Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is a symptom of a much larger problem. Antitrust legislation is badly needed now to give consumers a fighting chance
I loved your take on this whole situation, a really fair and neutral view of this whole process.
Loving this!! Can u talk about drake snubbing Taylor? Sure we’re all sick of her remixes but how rude