I would think it's a minority of girls who have gone.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I told my 12 year old we couldn't afford TS concert ticket prices and she was fine with it. I bought tickets to Olivia Rodrigo at the Cap Center instead. They were still insanely expensive from StubHub ($1000 for a pair) but that was doable and we had seats right off the floor. We had a great time.

Interesting, I told my 15 year old DD we couldn't afford Olivia Rodrigo tickets, but we have been to see TS twice (Eras Tour + Reputation) and didn't spend that much on tickets combined. We saw the Eras tour in Denver, which required that we leave for a previously planned vacation a day early and we were fortunately able to stay with family, so no added travel or hotel cost.

There is some luck (pre-sale/lottery) and planning ahead involved, but it was possible to see her reasonably if you avoided resale tickets.

They have been sued by the Justice Department. It will take a while though.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-live-nation-ticketmaster-monopolizing-markets-across-live-concert

Anonymous wrote:Anyone see Beyoncé Renaissance tour? It sucks that tickets are so hard to get at the face value price. I thought something was going to be done about that.

Nothing is going to be done about it. Ticketmaster runs a monopoly on concert tickets , we the consumers and the artists are forced to use them. They’re allowed to have users purchase and resell tickets at exorbitant amounts and to charge us ludicrous fees because we live in a profit driven capitalist society with no controls on these things and a government that won’t regulate them.

Anyone see Beyoncé Renaissance tour? It sucks that tickets are so hard to get at the face value price. I thought something was going to be done about that.

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Anonymous wrote:https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573,869/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

By far the majority of girls age 12 to 17 have not been to a Taylor Swift concert. What a shallow circle of friends you have.

Going to a concert does not make someone shallow. Judging someone based on a musician they like does though.

Disagree. Paying hundreds/thousands of dollars for concert tickets plus flying and hotel stays, etc. for a 12 yr old to see a concert, is shallow. It isn’t shallow to like Taylor Swift though.

Eh, depends on your income and normal travel budget. We travel a lot. I got our Eras Miami tickets at face value thankfully. Books flights and hotel on points. Will pay for rental car and food. The kids know it’s a special trip and not a regular occurrence. I’m not clear what’s shallow about it. It’s no different to me than some 20 somethings flying to Vegas for the weekend.

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Anonymous wrote:https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573,869/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

By far the majority of girls age 12 to 17 have not been to a Taylor Swift concert. What a shallow circle of friends you have.

Going to a concert does not make someone shallow. Judging someone based on a musician they like does though.

Disagree. Paying hundreds/thousands of dollars for concert tickets plus flying and hotel stays, etc. for a 12 yr old to see a concert, is shallow. It isn’t shallow to like Taylor Swift though.

Hundreds of dollars for a concert ticket is shallow? Tell me you haven’t been to a concert in 10 years without telling me. Even Stevie Nicks tickets cost me $150 each.

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Anonymous wrote:https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573,869/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

By far the majority of girls age 12 to 17 have not been to a Taylor Swift concert. What a shallow circle of friends you have.

Going to a concert does not make someone shallow. Judging someone based on a musician they like does though.

Disagree. Paying hundreds/thousands of dollars for concert tickets plus flying and hotel stays, etc. for a 12 yr old to see a concert, is shallow. It isn’t shallow to like Taylor Swift though.

Anonymous wrote:https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573,869/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

By far the majority of girls age 12 to 17 have not been to a Taylor Swift concert. What a shallow circle of friends you have.

Going to a concert does not make someone shallow. Judging someone based on a musician they like does though.

https://datacenter.aecf.org/data/tables/101-child-population-by-age-group#detailed/1/any/false/2545,1095,2048,574,1729,37,871,870,573,869/62,63,64,6,4693/419,420

By far the majority of girls age 12 to 17 have not been to a Taylor Swift concert. What a shallow circle of friends you have.

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Anonymous wrote:12 year old DD seems to almost be the only one of her friends who has not gone to one of the Eras tour concerts to see Taylor Swift.
We are UMC and can manage to afford it if I had to, but I just cannot justify the idea of paying $6-$7K for tickets, flight and a hotel just for us to sit in some crappy far away seat to be at the concert.
I am honestly surprised that almost all her friends have gone. Is this the norm now?

we did not pay that much… most probably did not. We had extra tickets and sold them face value to friends, so maybe check with your friends to see if they have extra. I think you are allowed to buy 6 at a time.

No, the second leg of the American tour only allowed 4 tickets to be purchased. So more people were able to get tickets, but there are fewer leftovers floating around

Anonymous wrote:12 year old DD seems to almost be the only one of her friends who has not gone to one of the Eras tour concerts to see Taylor Swift.
We are UMC and can manage to afford it if I had to, but I just cannot justify the idea of paying $6-$7K for tickets, flight and a hotel just for us to sit in some crappy far away seat to be at the concert.
I am honestly surprised that almost all her friends have gone. Is this the norm now?

we did not pay that much… most probably did not. We had extra tickets and sold them face value to friends, so maybe check with your friends to see if they have extra. I think you are allowed to buy 6 at a time.

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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.

We bought tickets regular price the day of the sale through ticketmaster, same as two other of DD’s friends who went in other cities where they had family and were visiting anyway. We know one family who bought off stubhub resale. We know lots of people who didn’t go.

My daughter wants to see Sabrina Carpenter and I couldn’t get tickets through ticketmaster. I won’t pay the hiked resale feels. Stop assuming everyone who saw TS payed thousands. Some of us got really lucky.

yes, we got tickets for the first leg of this tour at retail price too. We paid about $200/seat in Philly and I only got 2 seats so I didn't go myself (I sat in my car while my 2 teen daughters went in).

That first Taylor Swift Eras leg seems to be the last time ANY ticket in the wheelhouse of teen girls was actually able to be purchased on Ticketmaster by an ordinary human. I've since tried about 5 other times and was never able to even put tickets in my cart. The latest being Sabrina Carpenter. Now her tour is $400/seat for the nosebleeds in Baltimore. That's insane.
TS has basicaly ruined the concert industry for kids.

No. It’s just random luck. We had a presale code to Philly and were completely shut out. Waited in the virtual waiting room for 8 hours and then once we got in all the seats left were phantom. You couldn’t actually checkout if you managed to get them in the cart. Then we got another presale code to Miami. Only had to wait 30 minutes in the waiting room and checked out easily. Paid $220 each for 100 level tickets.

My daughter only has one friend who has been and they literally paid $70 because they got them on ticket-master. They also go to concerts all the time. Everyone else just went and saw the movie.