The large venues usually have an exclusivity deal with a ticket seller like Ticketmaster or AXS. So if they want to play massive stadiums, no they don’t have a choice but to use Ticketmaster. It’s on the venue, not the performer.
Taylor is big enough where she could have made a better/different deal. I’m sure slightly smaller venues would bend over backwards to have her, this was purely a greed thing.
That’s not really how the corporate world works. There’s billion dollar contracts involved that are much bigger than one artists tour. No matter how big they are. It’s use Ticketmaster, or you can’t use our venue. Full stop.
You’re making a statement without addressing the heart of the discussion. Artists like Taylor Swift are much bigger than Ticketmaster. If she actually used her platform and her voice to go against TM, she could effect a real change. But she (and so many other big artists) choose not to
How does it benefit Taylor Swift to have ticket master take a bigger cut? The best thing for her to do would be to sell the tickets directly through her site, not working with ticket master
Then, like, don’t play massive stadiums then? If Taylor Swift (don’t care about her but it’s kinda the main point of this thread) actually listened to her fans and decided postpone and restructure her tour around smaller independent venues and sell non-transferable tickets directly to fans she could’ve started a real change in the live music community. But she didn’t. Because, ya know, it wouldn’t make as much money.
Seriously. I went and saw ratm a couple years ago since my buddy had bought tickets ($120 each BTW) and there were advertisements EVERYWHERE. It was like a late stage capitalist hellscape which was made even worse knowing the band I was going to see claimed to be against all that. It was fucking horrible.
Yeah let’s sell out a fucking arena so we can have all these drunk gen x assholes complain about how the band has gotten too political when we say the supreme court sucks. It was soooo fucking cringe
Yuck. I was invited to a Tyler the Creator concert last year and it was awful. Billboards everywhere in the city and hours of standing in line. We were in the first 10 rows of the crowd but could hardly see anything with all the camera crews, security, and the height of the stage. I wont even go into how bad the crowd was.
But then only a tiny fraction of her fans would be able to see her at all. Even if she did round the clock shows she wouldn’t compete with the density those mega venues provide.
The large venues usually have an exclusivity deal with a ticket seller like Ticketmaster or AXS. So if they want to play massive stadiums, no they don’t have a choice but to use Ticketmaster. It’s on the venue, not the performer.
So what you’re saying is, we need to build out own arena with hookers and gambling?
Taylor is big enough where she could have made a better/different deal. I’m sure slightly smaller venues would bend over backwards to have her, this was purely a greed thing.
That’s not really how the corporate world works. There’s billion dollar contracts involved that are much bigger than one artists tour. No matter how big they are. It’s use Ticketmaster, or you can’t use our venue. Full stop.
You’re making a statement without addressing the heart of the discussion. Artists like Taylor Swift are much bigger than Ticketmaster. If she actually used her platform and her voice to go against TM, she could effect a real change. But she (and so many other big artists) choose not to
How does it benefit Taylor Swift to have ticket master take a bigger cut? The best thing for her to do would be to sell the tickets directly through her site, not working with ticket master
Then, like, don’t play massive stadiums then? If Taylor Swift (don’t care about her but it’s kinda the main point of this thread) actually listened to her fans and decided postpone and restructure her tour around smaller independent venues and sell non-transferable tickets directly to fans she could’ve started a real change in the live music community. But she didn’t. Because, ya know, it wouldn’t make as much money.
Seriously. I went and saw ratm a couple years ago since my buddy had bought tickets ($120 each BTW) and there were advertisements EVERYWHERE. It was like a late stage capitalist hellscape which was made even worse knowing the band I was going to see claimed to be against all that. It was fucking horrible.
Yeah let’s sell out a fucking arena so we can have all these drunk gen x assholes complain about how the band has gotten too political when we say the supreme court sucks. It was soooo fucking cringe
Yuck. I was invited to a Tyler the Creator concert last year and it was awful. Billboards everywhere in the city and hours of standing in line. We were in the first 10 rows of the crowd but could hardly see anything with all the camera crews, security, and the height of the stage. I wont even go into how bad the crowd was.
I’ll take smaller venues every day.
But then only a tiny fraction of her fans would be able to see her at all. Even if she did round the clock shows she wouldn’t compete with the density those mega venues provide.
As opposed to only a tiny fraction of her (rich) fans? Doesn’t really seem like an argument to me