Through the first week of March, strains of ‘Cruel Summer’ and ‘Karma’ have echoed through the streets of Singapore. “It feels like a Taylor Swift festival here. I can hear her songs everywhere,” says Shreya Sridhar, a marketing and communications consultant who flew down from Chennai to Singapore, to attend the singer’s The Eras Tour concert. A day before the concert, which she describes as “incredible”, Shreya says she went to the National Stadium, and saw Swifties lining up, lounging around on picnic blankets, and listening to music. In several spaces, there were corners dedicated to fans making bracelets to be exchanged — a Taylor Swift:The Eras Tour concert tradition
It has been hard to miss the deluge of reels, posts, and updates since the year started, from fans at Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour which toured Singapore and Thailand in January and February, and subsequently, from Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour where the singer performed to packed audiences from March 2 to 9 in Singapore. Closer home, Mumbai is gearing up to host much loved English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran on March 16. It was just a couple of months ago that the city played host to Sting, Keane, Halsey, the Jonas Brothers and more at Lollapalooza 2024.
