Trending Taylor Swift performances Singapore 2-9 March and international politics over the concert arrangement

Trending about Taylor Swift is her 6-night performances during Live concerts at Singapore National Stadium that started from March 2nd, until 09th March – the last show in Singapore. The Stadium has a capacity of 55000.

Politicians from Philippines, Hong-Kong, Thailand, China, Singapore, Japan and Australia commented about the 6-night Swift concerts in Singapore that has reportedly sought and secured a substantial subsidy from the Singapore Govt, possibly amounting to several million US dollars, however, Singapore Govt has denied about the same.

There is lot of discussions in political arena about Singapore hosting the Taylor’s concerts by giving subsidy of an unknown amount to the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift team. CY Leung the Ex-Chief Executive of Hong Kong said “I don’t think the Hong Kong government can get away with paying taxpayers’ money, whatever the cause is, without telling people how much, The Hong Kong government always tells the public how much money has been spent on what.”

As per the media reports, Thailand’s Prime Minister, Srettha Thavisin, had made a public claim that a promoter told him the Singaporean government subsidized the concert with a condition of exclusive concert in Southeast Asia. He even boasted that if he had known about the deal before, he was confident of making it in his favor.

Taylor Swift Concerts discussion steal time during 3-Days ASEAN Special Summit

Singapore is a key member of ASEAN – a 10-nation bloc known as Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Three-day summit hosted in Australia was expected to focus on member Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis and conflicts in the South China Sea.

On the summit’s sidelines, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was about an exclusive deal his city-state struck with Swift that prevents the singer from taking her Eras Tour to any other stop in Southeast Asia. Lee confirmed that Swift was provided with “certain incentives” in a deal for making Singapore her only Southeast Asian destination but also defended the deal at a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese who was hosting the 3 days (4-6 March) ASEAN-Australia Special summit in Melbourne, Australia coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Australia becoming ASEAN’s first external partner.

Taylor Swift had concluded her Melbourne and Sydney concerts in mid-Feb

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is 14-times Grammy award winner is performing in ongoing sixth concert of the Eras Tour. She has been trending in most of the social and main stream media platforms for her super-hit performances at Melbourne Cricket Ground during 16th-18th Feb 2024 and then 3 nights in Sydney for her surprise songs. Taylor had performed ‘Teardrops On My Guitar’ as the second surprise song on piano for Melbourne Night 3. Prior to this, she was performing in Tokyo where most of her shows were houseful.

During her last tour in Australia through a clip posted on X, Taylor Swift had thanked her fans at Melbourne Cricket Ground saying, “96,000 people the first night, 96,000 people the second night, 96,000 people tonight. All of that, those are all the biggest shows I’ve ever played on a tour and you did it three times.”

Swift’s boyfriend and famous Kansas City Chief’s NFL super-bowl player Travis Kelce arrival in Sydney had gained a great attention from Australian media as well as social media and fans of both Taylor and Kelce.

The ERAS Tour – Swift’s officially highest grossing music tour ever

For Taylor, this season’s ERAS tour has surpassed 1 billion $ in revenue and has become highest grossing music tour ever.

Trending Taylor Swift shows after Singapore

Taylor Swift performed for total 6 nights until 09th March at the National Stadium in Singapore. The next performance of Taylor Swift will be in Nanterre, France from 09-12 May and then it will be in Solna-Sweden during 17-19 May 2024. Ticket prices in France are ranging from 712 Euros to 2394+ Euros for venue Paris La Defense Arena. In Sweden, the ticket prices are ranging from 5543 SEK to 22841+SEK.

The Eras Tour, the tour commenced on March 17, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona, United States, and is set to conclude on December 8, 2024, in Vancouver, Canada. The Eras tour is organized in Australia, Europe, Asia, South America and North America from Fri, 17 Mar, 2023 – Sun, 8 Dec, 2024.

Swifties thoroughly enjoyed the concert in Singapore and glimpses of her boyfriend Travis Kelce

With 24 surprise songs during 6-nights concert, the fans of Taylor Swift feels they were the luckiest people in the world.

Almost one song from each Album was covered, swifties excitement was on the sky.

• Mine/Starlight (Mashup) and I Don’t Wanna Live Forever/Dress (Mashup)
• Long story short/The Story Of Us (Mashup)
• Clean/evermore (Mashup)
• Foolish One/Tell Me Why (Mashup)
• This Love/Call It What You Want (Mashup)
• Death By A Thousand Cuts/Babe (Mashup)
• Fifteen/You’re On Your Own, Kid (mashup)
• Sparks Fly/gold rush (Mashup)
• False God/”Slut!” (Mashup)
• Tim McGraw/cowboy like me (Mashup)
• Mirrorball/epiphany (Mashup)

Fanbase captured millions of pics from their cameras and felt proud of considering themselves as the luckiest fan. Cherry on the cake was Travis Kelce, who exchanged friendship bracelets. As per reports, Travis Kelce skipped his first movie premiere to support Taylor Swift. Travis Kelce produced his 1st movie a new dark comedy drama – My Dead Friend Zoe.

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