Anonymous
11/17/2022 19:16
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So does anyone have suggestions of alternative artists to go and see who put on a great show for less than $40 or so? Lewis Capaldi used to be an opening act. Another opening act I loved was Canadian Jeremy Fisher. There are so many talented musicians out there.
My young teen is into a bunch of lesser-known artists that she’s discovered through Spotify and social media. Turns out that DH and I actually enjoy most of them too! We’ve taken her to a handful of under-$40 shows this year at the 9:30 Club, Arena Stage, the Anthem, and, er, a place in Baltimore whose name I’m forgetting.
Unfortunately I don’t know the two names you mention, so can’t give good advice on who’s similar. But you could get on mailing lists for the venues and then take a sample listen of anyone who might appeal to you. Or Spotify offers playlists of artists its algorithm judges as similar to a name you know and like. In terms of names we like, we are into a handful of the people who are opening for or joining on the TS tour. That’s a good place to start exploring. My favorite cheap DC-area concerts this year were Mxmtoon and Chloe Moriondo, Cavetown and Tessa Violet (I found her annoying in person but enjoy her catchy songs), and Laufey (who is amazing in every way, especially if you like jazz vocals but DD has no interest in jazz and is into her too), plus Phoebe Bridgers on the more famous/expensive end. DD has also gotten us into Clairo, Weyes Blood, Liana Flores, and Faye Webster, but we haven’t caught their concerts yet.
Lewis Capaldi was a Scottish guy singing in pubs when his online music was discovered by Niall Horan from One Direction. After that he had a huge hit with Someone You Loved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABLecsR5UE Last week his UK tour sold out in seconds. Even he admits he could easily be still singing in pubs but for a bit of luck. Point is there are many talented people out there performing in small venues who are fantastic, just not very famous.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 19:02
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Petition: https://www.breakupticketmaster.com/
Let's do something constructive with our anger!
But how do you come to terms with the fact that Taylor Swift can't do enough concerts to provide you all with a ticket?
I think people were ok with the random verified fan selection. Like that seemed random and in a way fair. What wasn't was taking that already small share and then bottle necking them into a system that screwed them over.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 19:00
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:So does anyone have suggestions of alternative artists to go and see who put on a great show for less than $40 or so? Lewis Capaldi used to be an opening act. Another opening act I loved was Canadian Jeremy Fisher. There are so many talented musicians out there.
My young teen is into a bunch of lesser-known artists that she’s discovered through Spotify and social media. Turns out that DH and I actually enjoy most of them too! We’ve taken her to a handful of under-$40 shows this year at the 9:30 Club, Arena Stage, the Anthem, and, er, a place in Baltimore whose name I’m forgetting.
Unfortunately I don’t know the two names you mention, so can’t give good advice on who’s similar. But you could get on mailing lists for the venues and then take a sample listen of anyone who might appeal to you. Or Spotify offers playlists of artists its algorithm judges as similar to a name you know and like. In terms of names we like, we are into a handful of the people who are opening for or joining on the TS tour. That’s a good place to start exploring. My favorite cheap DC-area concerts this year were Mxmtoon and Chloe Moriondo, Cavetown and Tessa Violet (I found her annoying in person but enjoy her catchy songs), and Laufey (who is amazing in every way, especially if you like jazz vocals but DD has no interest in jazz and is into her too), plus Phoebe Bridgers on the more famous/expensive end. DD has also gotten us into Clairo, Weyes Blood, Liana Flores, and Faye Webster, but we haven’t caught their concerts yet.
+1 on Laufey, Faye Webster and Weyes Blood. Though my 15 year old has no interest. Omly Taylor and Lana for her.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:58
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Petition: https://www.breakupticketmaster.com/
Let's do something constructive with our anger!
But how do you come to terms with the fact that Taylor Swift can't do enough concerts to provide you all with a ticket?
They won't stop whining until TS gives them a private show. Duh!
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:56
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:Petition: https://www.breakupticketmaster.com/
Let's do something constructive with our anger!
But how do you come to terms with the fact that Taylor Swift can't do enough concerts to provide you all with a ticket?
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:54
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:CNN is reporting that 14 million people were online Tuesday--enough to fill 900 stadiums.
That's the thing. Taylor Swift can't possibly do enough concerts to keep everyone happy, even if the ticket sales systems worked.
I don't much like stadium concerts with huge crowds, but I reason to myself that I can then buy every one of an artist's albums with the money not spent on a ticket.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:41
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:So does anyone have suggestions of alternative artists to go and see who put on a great show for less than $40 or so? Lewis Capaldi used to be an opening act. Another opening act I loved was Canadian Jeremy Fisher. There are so many talented musicians out there.
My young teen is into a bunch of lesser-known artists that she’s discovered through Spotify and social media. Turns out that DH and I actually enjoy most of them too! We’ve taken her to a handful of under-$40 shows this year at the 9:30 Club, Arena Stage, the Anthem, and, er, a place in Baltimore whose name I’m forgetting.
Unfortunately I don’t know the two names you mention, so can’t give good advice on who’s similar. But you could get on mailing lists for the venues and then take a sample listen of anyone who might appeal to you. Or Spotify offers playlists of artists its algorithm judges as similar to a name you know and like. In terms of names we like, we are into a handful of the people who are opening for or joining on the TS tour. That’s a good place to start exploring. My favorite cheap DC-area concerts this year were Mxmtoon and Chloe Moriondo, Cavetown and Tessa Violet (I found her annoying in person but enjoy her catchy songs), and Laufey (who is amazing in every way, especially if you like jazz vocals but DD has no interest in jazz and is into her too), plus Phoebe Bridgers on the more famous/expensive end. DD has also gotten us into Clairo, Weyes Blood, Liana Flores, and Faye Webster, but we haven’t caught their concerts yet.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:33
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:23
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
I told my daughters it was like every female I knew was trying to get tix. We bombed out, even in the midwest
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:18
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
CNN is reporting that 14 million people were online Tuesday--enough to fill 900 stadiums.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 18:15
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:I'm looking on Stubhub and put in 1 ticket for one of the philly shows--it's showing I have my choice of 1 out of 924 tickets just for this show. So let's say on average across her 52 shows there are 900 single tickets on Stubhub, then that's nearly 50,000 tickets alone that are in the hands of resellers and that's just stubhub. not sure how these other resale sites work, but that alone is taking 50,000 tickets out of the hands of people who really wanted them and are being resold for no less than $700 per ticket.
I think a lot of ordinary people are reselling their tickets because prices are so high on stub hub.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 17:57
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
I'm looking on Stubhub and put in 1 ticket for one of the philly shows--it's showing I have my choice of 1 out of 924 tickets just for this show. So let's say on average across her 52 shows there are 900 single tickets on Stubhub, then that's nearly 50,000 tickets alone that are in the hands of resellers and that's just stubhub. not sure how these other resale sites work, but that alone is taking 50,000 tickets out of the hands of people who really wanted them and are being resold for no less than $700 per ticket.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 17:45
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:We had a random city on our priority list - my brother lives there and we can stay with him. We were able to get tickets, but I think because there was a lot less demand than the east coast.
Exactly. And not many people are itching to take a vacay to say like St. Louis, Detroit, or Cincinnati to see her. The prices for those shows were much lower than Philly, Pittsburgh, NJ, Nashville, Atlanta, Tampa, etc. I got tickets to Nashville and other than the 3 hour pause, there were plenty of tickets once I was allowed in and the pricing seemed fair. My sister lives outside of Detroit and I was able to buy tickets for her using another PC without much issue. It was much faster than Nashville and way cheaper.
100% she did not have enough east coast or west coast shows to support the demand. Excluding DC and NYC put a huge strain on the other east coast shows because those two cities can be in the others fairly cheaply and easily.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 17:23
Subject: Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:So does anyone have suggestions of alternative artists to go and see who put on a great show for less than $40 or so? Lewis Capaldi used to be an opening act. Another opening act I loved was Canadian Jeremy Fisher. There are so many talented musicians out there.
Pink is fantastic! Love her. Took DD to her Beautiful Trauma tour and it was amazing! You can buy tickets now, too for her upcoming 2023 tour.
Anonymous
11/17/2022 17:21
Subject: Re:Taylor Swift Tour
Anonymous wrote:This is so sad. I so badly wanted to buy two tickets and surprise my daughter with them for Christmas. She was so excited when she heard the concert announced.
Make sure you enter the iheart radio draw for TS tickets. Also, our local radio stations here (DMV area) were able to receive tickets that you can win by tuning in. Don't give up, yet.
https://q105fm.iheart.com/promotions/win-taylor-swift-tickets-1364176/