23 | Canada | Swiftie since 06 | Red Trash Fearless Tour Calgary | Red Tour Edmonton Night #1 | 1989 Tour Edmonton Night #1 Taylor, if I could tell you one thing, it would be thank you.
While I have had this thought since before the album came out, that she's chosen the rose garden over Madison square (and it honestly seems like this album was only released due to contractual obligations), the prices are ridiculous, and maybe she should have saved some money that she earned rather than expecting fans to hand over everything they have for their last glimpse at her for her retirement fund. It sounds salty I know, and I want to believe it's not taylor, that it's her team and blah blah blah, But like the majority of people cannot afford this, and everyone staying silent this era isn't helping.
I'm kinda glad at this point that she's not coming anywhere near me, as I would hate to have to weight my options considering the financial burden buying tickets would have on my family.
I am, again, writing to you hoping to get some clarification for this fandom about the Reputation World Tour. You have now released the following:
26 US Tour Dates
3 European Tour Dates
1 Canadian Tour Date
There are rumors swirling that these are not the only tour dates, arena dates are following, this is only the first leg, etc.. but that’s all they are, rumors. This is where we need your help.
We need to know if these are the only tour dates being announced and we need to know before the pre-sale.
If these US dates are all there is, then by purchasing a ticket in the pre-sale I am committing to: using 1-2 of my vacation days and traveling 16+ hours round trip up and down the east coast.
Fans from mainland Europe are committing to: fly to the UK to see a show on top of unannounced ticket prices with a weeks notice to make arrangements.
Canadian Fans are committing to: flying / driving to get to that one Canadian show or , if they have a passport, flying / driving to a US show.
Taylor has some of the best fans in the world, and those who can afford to make these travel arrangements will do it. However, if fans commit to these dates, buy tickets, book flights, and take time off work, only to find out there are more tour dates closer to home…. you are going to burn bridges.
Fans are willing to bend over backwards to see Taylor on tour and all we are asking is that you to give us some clarification on these dates.
Could you please clarify whether the stadium shows in the UK & Ireland will be the only places Taylor will visit for the reputation tour? Will she come to the mainland of Europe later? In other words: can we expect another announcement?
The thing is: we would like to know if this is our only opportunity to see Taylor. We need to fly out to the UK or Ireland and book hotels besides buying a ticket, and it’s all VERY expensive. If we know beforehand Taylor will also come to the mainland later many people could save their money. It would be very disappointing to find out later on you could’ve spent less because Taylor IS going to the mainland of Europe. Some of us might not have the money anymore. Also, most people cannot even afford to fly out and it’s not fair to keep them in the dark.
- On behalf of everyone who would like to see Taylor perform in Europe.
As good as Red is -- and it's really good -- I don't have a mite of critical detachment to evaluate it on its merits. Not when listening to it is like boarding a time machine to a moment when I was on the cusp of adulthood and everything felt broken and this album whispered in my ear, "Same."
By Sam Lansky November 08, 2017
Some albums we love not because of what they are but because of who we were when we first heard them. I didn’t know that I needed Red as urgently as I did, that I needed all those big bright empathetic swells of feeling, and it feels a little dramatic even to use the vocabulary of need to talk about what is, after all, just a pop record. But I did – I needed it. I was young and lost and the world seemed like an inhospitable place for someone like me who felt things so deeply.
Now, a few years later, it would be easy to hide behind a veil of disaffected impartiality, or to temper my enthusiasm, but this is the truth: As good as Red is – and it’s really good – I don’t have a mite of critical detachment to evaluate it on its merits. Not when listening to it is like boarding a time machine to a moment when I was on the cusp of adulthood and everything felt broken and this album whispered in my ear, Same.
That’s an intense thing to say, but Taylor Swift is pretty intense, right? She always has been – even in the beginning, when she was accusing a flattering beau of lying to her face in the opening lyrics of “Tim McGraw.” And now, all these years later, she’s still out for blood on the clattering “Look What You Made Me Do,” her most menacing song yet – and this is an artist, remember, who once characterized herself as a “nightmare dressed like a daydream.” Yet those of us who love her do so not despite this quality but because of it; this relentless pursuit of the highest and most deeply felt emotions, desire and rage and joy and disillusionment and regret and abandonment and wild irrational love. Say what you will about Swift but she’s never half-assed expressing her feelings, or feeling them. That’s why she’s my favorite pop star: Nobody feels things more fiercely.
And that’s why her Red is her best album, because it’s the album where she most effectively lays bare her emotional life in all its messy complexity. And while there are cases to be made for all of her records – the precocious perceptiveness of her debut and the sonic cohesion of Fearless and the singular authorship of Speak Now and the razorlike clarity of 1989 – in this house we stan Red. It captures the experience of being young and coming into your own emotional power, the way that opens you up to both elation and anguish, and how volatile it can feel to swing from one extreme to the other. There is a lyric on the opening song, “State of Grace,” where she sings, “This is the golden age of something good and right and real.” What a statement – the unabashed grandiosity of it. But when she sang it, I believed her.
The greatest moments on Red aren’t the obvious ones. Certainly “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” is an unimpeachable smash, and it too is a case study in hyperbole, from that extra “ever” in the title (in the title!) to the high drama of Swift groaning, “This is exhausting.” Red marked the first time that Swift teamed up with the Swedish writer and producer Max Martin, and her work with Martin and acolyte Shellback made the hooks catchier than they’d ever been before. “I Knew You Were Trouble” sounds like the biggest song in the world being played underwater, that breathless dubstep-lite bounce a middle-finger to country-radio programmers, and it’s impossible, too, to resist the millennial pink fizz of “22” and its neutered naughtiness, like the soundtrack to shoplifting from a suburban Claire’s. Songs like these are a forever summer, and on them Swift sounds more youthful than she did when she was an actual teenager.
No, the beating heart of Red are the songs Top 40 never touched. “All Too Well,” the album’s best offering and her finest work as a songwriter, is a portrait of lazy autumn afternoons in bucolic upstate towns; it starts as a love song, spangled with heart-scratching details, and then you sit back and watch as it curdles in her mind’s eye. Plaid shirt days and nights spent dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light turn to scorched-earth agony. Swift was always popular music’s most gifted memoirist but here she breaks the fourth wall; it’s a song about memory, but more than that, it’s a song that interrogates the ritual of remembering. Watch the way she pivots from past to present tense in that shattering bridge, making the pain of the memory immediate – that perfect sleight of hand.
That song alone would make Red her best album, or pretty much anyone’s, but my favorite song here is actually “Holy Ground,“ which doesn’t sound like anything else in her catalog. It’s insistent and urgent, a twangy guitar riff looped over a punchy aerobic drum pedal, and her vocals sound a little bit strained, and as it throbs and lurches along toward the two-minute mark, the instrumentation suddenly drops out and she sings maybe her most perfect couplet ever: “Tonight I’m gonna dance for all that we’ve been through / But I don’t wanna dance if I’m not dancing with you.” If that doesn’t move you on the page, go listen to it and try not to feel something.
Listen – Swift knows this is a handful. She knows it’s bonkers that on the bridge of “Treacherous,” she threatens to follow a dude home. There’s literally a song on this record called “Sad Beautiful Tragic.” Even on Red’s perkiest tune, the featherweight “Stay Stay Stay,” she sings, “I’d like to hang out with you for my whole life.” If you’ve ever watched a first date start scanning the restaurant for the nearest available exit when it dawns on him that you’ve already started redecorating his apartment in your head – wow, have I got an album for you.
Of course it’s dramatic, but that’s why it’s so extraordinary. And as ever, it’s tempting to write it all off as pure histrionics; so often we diminish the stories of young women who share their experiences in love and life, because their power frightens us. But Red didn’t go quadruple Platinum because Swift’s songs are catchy. It’s because, as a writer, she chose to share something vital—something I felt in myself but could not name until I heard these songs. Do you know what it’s like to feel things this intensely, to have reserves of joy and sorrow so deep that sometimes it feels like they might swallow you whole? Do you?
do u guys think we could refer 2 this is why we can’t have nice things ‘nice things’ instead of tiwwchnt bc i’m just a simple gal and my brain can’t comprehend that many letters in a single acronym
Taylor really deserves an award for how many fans shes been trying to meet lately. I know they dont make awards for that , but they should . And if they did it should 100 % go to Taylor .
I love these. Guys I have an idea . Anyone that sees this post make an award edit for tay and lets keep this going . I think it would make her smile seeing all these awards we made for her :)…
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