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If you’ve been awake at any time in the past six months then you’ve probably heard something about the Taylor Swift Eras Tour. Awareness of the tour came early to my house because I have two daughters who very much wanted to get tickets to one of the final shows at SOFI stadium in Los Angeles.
I wrote about the experience of trying to help get tickets here. You may have forgotten but the ticket sales for the tour became national news after Ticketmaster crashed and behaved sluggishly. After struggling with the site I was able to get tickets but an untold number of people missed out and many of them were angry about it.
Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in.
Break them up.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 15, 2022
Okay, I’m not sure AOC missed out. She could probably just get invited backstage at this point. In any case, it was a big story last November. The site defended itself saying it had been prepared for about 1.5 million people to log on and try to buy tickets. Instead they were hit with 14 million people logging on to buy tickets. They just badly underestimated how big this was going to be.
In any case, Swift has been touring the US since March and is now heading for the final shows of the US tour in Los Angeles. She sold out SOFI stadium, where the Rams and the Chargers play, for six nights. As far as I know that’s unprecedented as the stadium can hold around 70,000 people.
The first of six nights is tomorrow but now a bunch of California Democrats are urging Swift to postpone all of her dates in LA, which again have been sold out since last November, to show solidarity with striking hotel workers:
California Lt.
