Is my 12 year old DD among the minority of girls that have not gone to a Taylor Swift concert?

[Anonymous]

My kids friends just spent $400 each to go to Olivia Rodrigo.... its not just TS.

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Anonymous wrote:Some people paid list price directly from Ticketmaster so you can’t say everyone who has gone paid thousands even though that is what it would require at this point.

The 1 girl we know who went flew to Europe to see the show. The tickets were reasonable, but it did involve quite a bit of travel.

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Anonymous wrote:How would it cost $6-$7K? I think you must live in a wealthy area if you think it's necessary to spend that much. When you have more money, you are more inclined to spend more even if you're not getting much more as an experience.

My kid bought a regular-priced ticket, paid for gas money, paid for a shared hotel room, and paid for food and gas money back home.

The total cost was $500.

Not all kids like TS so, no, your child is not the only one who has not attended.

Dear poster living under a rock. Most people can't get tickets through Ticketmaster and are stuck buying tickets on the resale market. Your kid is one of the lucky ones if they were able to buy a regular-priced ticket.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Your daughter just happens to only be friends with rich kids. If she had more poor friends nobody would have gone to the concert.

My 10 year old DD has a mix of friends (though few super rich friends) and there is 1 girl out of about 25 who has gone. Many went to see it in the theater.

Almost all the tween girls I know just saw it in the theater (preferably opening weekend with a big group -- that's where the cool factor is if the girls are competing over this). We know one girl in this age group who saw it live and she also mentions it constantly and the other girls roll their eyes at her behind her back. She is also the sort to refer to all of her clothes and belonging by brand names or to report her birthday gifts from her parents like a press release. Kids recognize this behavior for what it is and they don't exclude her and they might even envy her at times but they also recognize she's being a shallow braggart and that's not cool.

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Anonymous wrote:How would it cost $6-$7K? I think you must live in a wealthy area if you think it's necessary to spend that much. When you have more money, you are more inclined to spend more even if you're not getting much more as an experience.

My kid bought a regular-priced ticket, paid for gas money, paid for a shared hotel room, and paid for food and gas money back home.

The total cost was $500.

Not all kids like TS so, no, your child is not the only one who has not attended.

Dear poster living under a rock. Most people can't get tickets through Ticketmaster and are stuck buying tickets on the resale market. Your kid is one of the lucky ones if they were able to buy a regular-priced ticket.

PP also obviously has a teen or college aged daughter who can drive and split a hotel room with friends which totally changes the equation. Her DD likely also figured out how to enter the Ticketmaster lottery on her own or coordinated with friends to all enter and then bring each other if they scored tickets. That's how lots of college kids and 20 somethings are affording this tour.

OP's question is about tweens who can't do any of that and 100% rely on their parents for something like this. It takes on a different tenor when it's about what parents are doing "for" their kids. It's like asking "are all parents spending thousands on birthday parties for their tweens -- it feels like we're the only ones doing sleepovers and pizza anymore" and then having someone pipe in that their 23 yr old threw her own birthday party for a few hundred dollars by doing a Costco run with her roommate and decorating themselves and saving up Total Wine coupons. Good for her but not on topic.

[Anonymous]

My 12 year old has better taste than that. There are a lot of very young girls at those concerts making me think it’s their basic mothers who really want to see Swift.

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You know you live in a bubble when…

[Anonymous]

One of friends just said "about 75% of the girls at her kids middle school will have seen Taylor Swift by the end of the summer. That didn't feel that far off. Welcome to north Arlington...

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So pathetic

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Anonymous wrote:Some people paid list price directly from Ticketmaster so you can’t say everyone who has gone paid thousands even though that is what it would require at this point.

The 1 girl we know who went flew to Europe to see the show. The tickets were reasonable, but it did involve quite a bit of travel.

Nothing about this is reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:No. Your daughter just happens to only be friends with rich kids. If she had more poor friends nobody would have gone to the concert.

Haha this
My 12yo DD has no interest luckily.

[Anonymous]

My 12 yo has no interest in TS. No one in her friend group went to her concert either and they are all way wealthier than us.

[Anonymous]

My kid has not gone, not for lack of trying. I just can't get tickets. Same with Olivia Rodrigo.

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Anonymous wrote:One of friends just said "about 75% of the girls at her kids middle school will have seen Taylor Swift by the end of the summer. That didn't feel that far off. Welcome to north Arlington...

Mini clones who have grown up with no one to teach them and have them listen to the extraordinary talent of female singers like Aretha Franklin, Kate Bush, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone plus hundreds more. It’s like a cult that unites White girls from all over. A mediocre singer with no sense of rhythm who writes about “boys”. Nah.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some people paid list price directly from Ticketmaster so you can’t say everyone who has gone paid thousands even though that is what it would require at this point.

The 1 girl we know who went flew to Europe to see the show. The tickets were reasonable, but it did involve quite a bit of travel.

Nothing about this is reasonable.

I remember a story on something like this. The family decided to vacation in Japan (I think), and included a TS concert as part of their vacation. The numbers were not terrible at all, with the ticket prices being considerably more reasonable than the ones in the US.