r/melbourne • u/Diqt • Feb 21 '24

Light and Fluffy News Taylah Sweeeft

Hopefully this doesn't get deleted because I sure as hell can't post anywhere else about her unless it's mindnumbing blind agreement with everyone else.

Anyway I just saw live coverage of her NFL boyfriend landing in Sydney. Professional journalists who have interviewed our country's leaders are watching his plane land. Sitting around talking about it. This is live news.

This goes WAY beyond enjoying her music. I don't know what this is anymore. It felt like as a society we were moving away from celebrity worship. This has lost touch of reality. What's weird is everyone going along with it? I feel like I'm in a movie where everyone gets infected and I'm going to be the last person alive. Movie ends with me dancing mindlessly to Shake it Off, my eyeballs completely white. Roll credits.

Maybe a Swifty can explain this phenomenon to me because this level of worship would be ridiculed for just about any other celebrity. I didn't even know Pink and Blink 182 were here too, they've gotten so little media coverage.

EDIT: Thanks mods for not deleting this. Third different sub I tried. Happy that the Melbourne sub allows some discussion! Saving me from any Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers assumptions.

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u/commentman10 Feb 21 '24

Was she thiiiis BIIIG only from a couple of weeks ago?? I swear I don't hear anything for the longest time, suddenly she's a billionaire, suddenly she the talk of the town talk of the world more like, suddenly she the most popular person in existence. What's going on?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

shes been this big for a while now, you’ve probably just noticed it more the last couple of weeks because it’s the lead up to the Australian leg of her tour

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u/euqinu_ton Feb 22 '24

the Australian leg of her tour

7 shows in 2 cities on one coast? It's the Australian toe of the tour.

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u/jett1406 Feb 22 '24

7 shows is a decent amount for someone who’s playing around the world

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u/euqinu_ton Feb 22 '24

Oh I'm not denying it's a decent amount. Nor dissing her abilities for dancing around in heels and singing for 3 hours, multiple nights in a row, for .... what is it, 18 months? It's impressive AF.

I just thought it's funny calling it an Australian leg of the tour when there's only 2 destinations in such a geographically enormous country full of fans.

I mean ... has anyone else that 'big' only made 2 stops here? Most big acts do Brisbane and maybe Perth.

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u/Tiny_Takahe Feb 22 '24

Melbourne and Sydney have a combined population of 10.3MIL out of a total population of 25.69 MIL.

Not to mention there were additional train services from Adelaide specifically for the concert, and people flying from New Zealand, Brisbane and Canberra.

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u/jett1406 Feb 22 '24

most probably do more but in terms of population size it's understandable with so many shows to do