“Sorry, I have something to say,” Taylor Swift shared on her Instagram channel the 264 million subscribers. And what the US superstar has to announce should be of particular interest to European fans, although it is not the expected statement on “Love with Matty Healy“ is. It’s much more surprising: Taylor Swift (“Shake It off”) is coming to Europe on big “The Eras Tour” in 2024. Three of the 19 destinations between Paris (May 9) and London (August 17) are in Germany. After concerts in Gelsenkirchen (July 18) and Hamburg (July 23), she will sing for the very first time in Munich – on Saturday, July 27, 2024, in the Olympic Stadium.
“I can’t wait to see so many of you,” writes the 33-year-old. And she also shows the fans how to get tickets. It’s not that easy, the rush is likely to be huge. You can visit their website at TaylorSwift.com/tour until Friday, June 23, 11:59 p.m. This is necessary in order to receive an individual code with which one can secure tickets in advance on Wednesday, July 12 at 10 a.m. (however, the registration alone is no guarantee for this, according to the organizer).
Pennsylvania-born Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop phenomena of this era. She moved to Nashville when she was 14 and attended a Montessori school to pursue country music. Indeed, her first albums were soon hitting mainstream US radio, and she disrupted the music market with her modern country-pop. In the meantime she is about pure synth pop with her two Corona albums folklore and Evermore Arrived at indie folk and alternative rock with the pure pop record midnight she topped the charts in the US, UK and Germany in autumn 2022; the single “Anti-Hero” was their ninth number one. Swift has her own Netflix documentary series (“Miss Americana”), has sold more than 250 million records and was the first artist ever to occupy all ten places in the US singles chart.
Most recently, she was in the headlines because a warehouse worker in France stole ten previously unreleased records and sold them on the Internet. The first two went for 25 euros, eight more for 50. A bargain, of course, because fans all over the world are waiting speak now. The album was released in 2010, but Swift is re-recording her first six albums.
She wrote the songs between the ages of 18 and 20, she says on Instagram, they are characterized by “their brutal honesty, their unfiltered diary-like revelations and their wild melancholy”. She loves this record because it tells a story of growing up, shedding, flying and falling. With six bonus pieces and guest contributions from about fall out Boy should speak now now out on July 7th, a year ahead of the tour.