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Taylor Swift REACTS to "Excruciating" Ticketmaster Debacle
Jack Antonoff wants the performance acquisition to get better.
In the aftermath of the ticketing debacle surrounding Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, Jack Antonoff had immoderate suggestions connected however to amended service the artists and fans—rather than their firm wallets.
The Bleachers frontman—who frequently collaborates with Taylor—had ideas for however to amended the performance industry, which helium shared connected Twitter connected Nov. 18.
"While we are having the treatment tin venues simply halt taxing merch of artists," he wrote. "This is virtually the lone mode you marque wealth erstwhile you commencement retired touring."
"The much we marque it tenable for young and tiny artists to marque a surviving connected the roadworthy the much large euphony we volition get," helium continued. "Touring is 1 of the astir honorable ways to marque a living. Some of the hardest and astir heartfelt enactment you tin do. So wherefore indispensable f--k creator truthful hard?"
But the "We Are Young" vocalist has immoderate thought of however to hole things successful the euphony and ticketing industries.
"Simple solutions, halt taxing merch, halt lying to artists astir costs of putting connected shows, see artists successful much areas of revenue," helium wrote. "The stories I could archer from my years touring are bananas. Young artists connected circuit are the past to spot immoderate money."
Jack's heated connection comes aft Swifties spoke retired against Ticketmaster's performance merchantability practices during the Verified Fan and Capital One presale events, which led to the cancelation of the wide sale, for Taylor's archetypal circuit since 2018.
Jack aboriginal endorsed 1 fan's idea, commenting "just a large idea" to a tweet that said, "What if we stopped utilizing venues altogether. Bleachers unrecorded from the parking batch of an abandoned k-mart circuit 2023 "
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Taylor besides addressed the mess on Nov. 18, commenting that it "really pisses maine off."
"There are a multitude of reasons wherefore radical had specified a hard clip trying to get tickets and I'm trying to fig retired however this concern tin beryllium improved moving forward," her Instagram Stories statement read successful part. "I'm not going to marque excuses for anyone due to the fact that we asked them, aggregate times, if they could grip this benignant of request and we were assured they could. It's genuinely astonishing that 2.4 cardinal radical got tickets, but it truly pisses maine disconnected that a batch of them consciousness similar they went done respective carnivore attacks to get them."
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