#Eras Tour in Vienna

[loving-swiftie]

Back from Vienna

I came back home from Vienna last night. Now, I can give you my thoughts.

First, let me say that it was the right call to cancel the shows. As it turned out, another arrest was made yesterday. So there are 3 men arrested and one 15 y.o., who knew about this. The threat was still there even after Wednesday.

I am not angry that the concert was cancelled. I am angry at those men - teenagers. (I am not commenting more on this.)

I am sad, devastated that I couldn't attend Taylor's concert that I have been waiting for over a year. I was supposed to attend N1 and still, I feel miserable. Someone took my joy out of my soul.

The concert had a great meaning to me. To me, it served as an opening chapter of leaving my depressed past behind and stepping into a new era of feeling fine, happy and healed. It was taken away from me.

God, it sucks, you know? It sucks.

Now, I look at the few positives:

our way to Vienna was absolutely amazing, funny and I met more people. I traded bracelets with them.

I got TS merch! I have a photo of the official truck.

I felt excitement on Wednesday like never before (until the announcement).

On Thursday, I went back to the stadium, traded more bracelets and talked to disappointed people. We all agreed that it was the right call to cancel.

It is what it is. There is nothing else we can do about the cancelled show. I can only hope that in the future, I'll be able to attend another concert of hers. (Already planned a strategy to be sure I will attend a show!)

Unfortunately, I was not able to enjoy Vienna like other Swifties - singing in the city centre and having a nice time with everyone as I see in many videos.

I hope @taylorswift doing better and she's taking some time to rest and process what happened. I wish the London concerts will happen and everyone will be safe and enjoy the show.

Maybe next time, I'll get to see her. And hey, this is my chance to plan a better outfit and get better tickets with a better view. :)

[tswiftupdatess]

Beautiful moment of Swifties singing ''Long Live'' today in the streets of Vienna after their shows got cancelled! (August 8, 2024)

[missegyptiana]

the friendship bracelet tree in vienna🥹🫶🏻

[evermoredeluxe]

maggierogers: from vienna with love 💗💗💗

Coldplay played Love Story in Vienna with Maggie Rogers for the swifties in attendance who missed out on Taylor’s show ❤️ They also invited two swifties on stage!

[swiftiesoliloquies]

the terrorist situation that happened in Austria is heartbreaking and terrifying, but what's also scary is that people are saying "it's Taylor's fault if children had died", or "oh if I knew a terrorist threat would cancel her I would have done it". I don't understand how demented one must be to see something like this and place blame (and shift the focus on her may I add, not the ones that could have died) on the artist, when we know full well, had it been a Kendrick Lamar or Harry Styles concert, no one would have pointed a finger of blame at them

[oliepatolie]

So I’ve just arrived in Vienna. Suitcase filled to the brim with friendship bracelets, bright-as-a-fucking-planet mirrorball bedazzled cowboy hat, and all that stuff. We found out about the concert being cancelled right before boarding. I’ve spent the flight by holding hands with people I’ve never met and doing breathing exercises with a random girl who was so, so terrified to fly but went anyway.

Tell me why does it all feel apocalyptic.

I know cancelling was the right choice. I cannot even imagine being there tomorrow and something happening. I am so glad I get to be furious and disappointed and safe. In light of what happened in Southport, I consider my bitterness a privilege. But I can’t help but feel very aware that this event does not exist in a vacuum. Why can’t people celebrate their thrills safely and, pointedly, why can’t girls express their joy and personify their girlhood without a threat of being stabbed or blown up.

I can understand not liking an artist. I cannot understand feeling such visceral hatred towards a demographic purely for the songs they listen to and the bracelets they exchange. I can’t help but feel like a goddamn target purely because of my gender and interest that is highly associated with my gender in mass media.

Oh how I love being a woman. Or something like that.

[tortured-poets-society]

As a Vienna Swiftie who fully understands Taylor's reasoning for staying silent on the cancellation for the safety of the remaining European shows—and who also thinks it was necessary to emphasize why she didn't comment on it until now—I want to express my disappointment with the fandom's reaction to her post and their general attitude towards Vienna Swifties.

While there were a few very loud voices who overreacted to her silence, most of the comments I saw from Vienna Swifties remained respectful, though understandably disappointed and sad. However, after Taylor's post, I've noticed an overwhelming amount of hostility towards those who wished she had commented on the situation sooner. People are being called "dumbasses" and told to "fuck off" or "eat shit." I'm genuinely appalled by the complete lack of empathy. Yes, there was some overreaction, but has everyone forgotten that these people (myself included) were the targeted victims of a terrorist attack?

Taylor isn't the only one who was affected by the situation. I saw many people who had nightmares and were scared, which is why they wanted a statement from Taylor or her team as reassurance. In addition to this trauma, fans were also simultaneously grieving the lost opportunity to see this tour and possibly her live ever. Not to mention, while they refunded the money for the tickets (with reductions...), many other expenses weren't covered, such as hotel bookings, travel, etc.

So, we Vienna Swifties not only had to deal with the fact that we and our loved ones were almost brutally murdered by fanatics, but we're also grieving the loss of a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and for many, the loss of hard-earned money. So, god forbid some people weren't 100% rational in their reactions. Taylor did the right thing by explaining that she wouldn't comment on an issue if she thought it could put people in danger, but this doesn't give fans—especially those who weren't affected by this tragic situation—the right to call anyone names or belittle them.

[taylorsredversion]

I’m so sorry for any fans that were going to Vienna. I’m heartbroken for you guys. I hope something better comes in time.

[greendayauthority]

Stadthalle | Vienna, Austria | 6 November 2009

[itspoppyart]

Eras as books! 📚

[tswiftupdatess]

Swifties writing in front of the stadium in Vienna today after their shows got cancelled! (August 8, 2024)

[wouldvecouldveshouldve]

the thing that terrifies me about this entire situation is… imagine if they didn’t find out. i just think about taylor, the band, the dancers, and all the fans we could’ve lost. and we could’ve just be on a livestream watching all that go down. it’s terrifying to even consider what could have potentially happened if authorities didn’t find out about the terrorists’ plans.

[wildfloweronwheels]

A pit of nausea is boiling in my stomach today. It’s fury and fear and a sadness that sears to the bone. It swept in suddenly as I opened my phone to the news that three of Taylor Swift’s shows in Vienna, Austria have been cancelled by police due to the thwarting of a terrorist attack. Reading that sentence, I’m back in 2017, chest burning with horror and grief at the bomb that went off as young women danced and sang their hearts out with Ariana Grande. We know what attacks like this look like, we’ve felt them before, their echoes held in the minds and hearts of every live music fan across the world even now.

So, there is also relief swimming in the sick, that the police got to this in time. That they made the call that means thousands of people quite literally live to see another day. My head is spinning thinking about what could’ve been. Feeling for the fans, musicians and Taylor herself whose lives have orbited at least a little around the glittery nights they were promised. The friendship bracelets.  The cowboy boots. The glorious high of screaming ‘Fuck the patriarchy’ in a sold out stadium. The expectant hush that falls over things before the opening chords of a surprise song. The putting together of pieces in the mashups that follow. I know it’s just a concert; there’ll be more of them, we hope, but it’s also not…

It's yet more proof that we didn’t need, of an ugly truth, splashed in oozing neon. It rears its head all over the world in millions of foul devastating ways every single day and yet it still hurts every single time. The thing that most frightens men and boys is a woman succeeding. A woman living. A woman thriving. A woman feeling joy. Women gathering together in a communion of emotion that borders on the sacred, because it’s so rare in its safety and warmth.

 That’s how I would describe the nights I was privileged enough to spend at the Eras Tour earlier this year. A singular celebration of all a woman has made through her own blood, sweat and tears. A visual and musical experience underpinned by one of my favourite quotes ever from the glorious Carrie Fisher, “Take your broken heart, make it into art.” If you’re anything like me, it’s soundtracked your own.

We’ve watched that heart break and heal again and again. Blows dealt by men loitering in a girlhood they had no place in. By ill-fated romance, snuffed out because egos couldn’t bear the load or because two people just weren’t the right fit.  By calculated campaigns designed to distort an image, dismantle a reputation and lay ruin to a legacy. And yet she’s here. And so are we. Women, I mean. Again and again we resist. We persist. We insist.

Our joy is not yours to steal. Our lives are not yours to threaten. We will keep finding it. Rising. Screaming. Teaching the boys and men around us to be better. Defying. Demanding. Deciding. I’m not interested in what you think about Taylor Swift’s music or her privilege, a financial sheen that I remind you protects from no bullet or harm being done to you or innoc ent people, in your name.  In fact, it invites it. Over and over again. But I am interested in how you talk about this moment. Right now. The one that almost happened but didn’t. It’s a sliding door so what are we going to make sure waits on the other side of it?

[evermoredeluxe]

the dancers :)

[ivy-forevemore13]

oh man, i was so excited. what do i do now with my outfit? my way too many bracelets? the literal bullet journal i started for it? the nearly 400 days i waited for this? what do i do with myself now?

i‘m not mad it was cancelled, safety first! i‘m mad at those people who got it cancelled.

[theroadgetshard]

I really don’t know what to say right now… this was supposed to be my first Taylor show ever