Unfortunately, the Eras Tour shows weren’t without faults. The opening night saw fans from other sections rushing into the VIP area, encroaching into the personal space of a few VIP ticketholders, who went online to air their grievances about the bad experience.
According to TikTok user @linmaxin, security guards “pushed the extra people” into the VIP ticketholders’ rows, causing even more crowding to the point where it was “hard to breathe”.
A spokesperson from Kallang Alive Sport Management (KASM) told CNA Lifestyle that they added resources and barriers for the Mar 3 show, Swift’s second night, to enhance crowd control measures, and that there were no further reports of such situations since.
2. SECURITY LAPSES THAT SAW FANS ENTERING THE VENUE WITHOUT TICKETS
Two men have also since been charged for helping three other people enter the venue without a ticket. On the third day of the Eras Tour, 29-year-old Yang Chenguang allegedly distracted a security officer while 45-year-old Li Xiao Wei held onto a turnstile to allow three people to enter the National Stadium.
This situation, coupled with the crowd control issues above, makes us wonder if enough security measures had been deployed for such a major event.
3. LOTS OF PEOPLE FELL VICTIM TO TICKET SCAMS RELATED TO THE ERAS TOUR
In early March, the Singapore Police Force revealed that at least S$213,000 (US$158,000) were lost to Taylor Swift concert ticket scams over the past two months – with the number of victims exceeding 330.
Victims would come across concert ticket listings on platforms such as Telegram, X, Facebook and Xiaohongshu.
Scammers would then instruct victims to make payments via PayNow, bank transfers or virtual credits and become uncontactable once they’ve received the funds.
In an effort to curb scams, Carousell suspended ticket sales for the Eras Tour from Feb 23 to Mar 9.
One of the victims of such scams was Thai influencer Chopleum who only found out that her tickets “had already been used” when she tried to enter the National Stadium. A similar case was reported by the owners of pimple patch brand Dododots who claimed that one of the two tickets they bought on resale site StubHub had “already been scanned in”.
4. THE RAINY WEATHER