Analysts estimate that the Eras Tour will likely surpass the $1 billion mark next March, while Swift is touring internationally…
— from TIME magazine, August 2023.
Let’s just lay it right out on the table, with the cards face up.
I have no relationship whatsoever with Taylor Swift. Zip. Zero.
In fact, I can’t even name a single song from any of her 14 million-selling albums. That’s how sad the whole thing is.
I gather that she started out writing and singing Country music and shifted gradually to writing and singing normal music.
It’s reported that she’s the “most streamed” female vocalist on Spotify. (I wouldn’t know. I’m too cheap to spend $11 a month on a Spotify subscription.)
The first leg of her current U.S. tour — the “Eras Tour” — wrapped up in the Los Angeles, playing six shows in the same stadium where Super Bowl LVII played last February. And not a single concussion or spinal injury.
From a TIME magazine article by Jeannie Kopstein and Mariah Espada, about the current five-continent tour:
While there’s much to say about the music, costumes, and production, the impact of the Eras Tour is starkly reflected in the numbers: a projected gross of $2.2 billion in North American ticket sales alone, and hundreds of millions of streams, reaching a nearly 80% spike in those listening to her music catalog in the weeks after the tour kicked off…
But the money goes far deeper than just net profits. The Eras Tour is projected to generate close to $5 billion in consumer spending in the United States alone. “If Taylor Swift were an economy, she’d be bigger than 50 countries,” said Dan Fleetwood, President of QuestionPro Research and Insights…
But the question does come up, now and then:
Could I have a relationship with Taylor Swift?
Probably not.
For one thing, I’m 59 years old, and she’s 33. Young enough to be my daughter. Or my trophy wife.
For another thing, she seems to have trouble staying in relationships, based on what I’ve been reading about her. That’s a psychological challenge that generates great Country hits, but also, heartache.
I have enough problems in my life; I really don’t need to wind up in the lyrics of a Country song performed in the SoFi stadium, in front of 420,000 people.
On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind being married to a woman who’s willing to do her part, to pay the bills. And hopefully, clean the cat box occasionally.
I was, in fact, married to a woman, once, who had a steady job and was willing to help around the house.
Sometimes, she’d make up songs while doing the dishes.
Now I have no relationship with her. Zero. Zip.
Shake it off. Shake it off.