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It is Taylor Swift’s world and we’re just living in it.
Taylor is slowly grinding her way to taking home well over a billion dollars on the Eras Tour alone, a tour that has “an Economic Impact Greater than 50 Countries” according to recent GlobalNewsWire press release. The Federal Reserve even credited Taylor’s Eras Tour for generating the largest hotel revenue for Philadelphia in years.
It’s hard to estimate how many ‘locals’ are attending the Eras Tour on any given weekend, or what the breakdown is between people flying in and driving in for the concerts is. But I can say anecdotally, I flew into Atlanta with my better half for Taylor’s Sunday night show at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium months ago and the airport was PACKED full of people wearing Eras Tour merch.
Like the flight below, I also experienced delays/issues. My wife and I’s initial flight was canceled at 1 am, 6 hours before it was set to take off, and our next flight was delayed like the one below. This flight was leaving Denver and headed to Salt Lake City and was delayed several hours on the tarmac with Swifties broke out singing Taylor’s ‘Love Story’ at the top of their lungs.
On TikTok, the comments are mostly positive. The top comment is “I WANNA BE IN THAT PLANE” in all caps.
On Twitter, the reaction is quite different.
The caption reads “HELL no.” and the top reply is a joke about blowing it all up. The person who posted the video to Twitter defended their caption and all of the ‘let them have fun’ replies by saying “I hate to see Swifties having fun yes” and “People saying let them have fun.. so sorry I paid for a flight and not a concert??”
It’s hard to see this and not put yourself in their shoes. I’m not sure I would’ve hated it too much unless it went on for too long.
The video’s 69 seconds long from start to finish. Surely, any sane person would trade a group of fans all jacked up on Mountain Dew singing for 69 seconds to get it out of their system instead of an hours-long delay of miserable people full of anxiety which could potentially cause one of these tightly-wound Swifties to snap at any given moment. I know I’d make that trade.