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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

‘Please come’: Taylor Swift fans in south-east Asia hope for tour date

Taylor Swift on stage
Taylor Swift in Cincinnati, Ohio on 1 July. Fans have been queueing for days in Singapore, her only tour date in south-east Asia. Photograph: Taylor Hill/Getty Images

On social media, fans are calling it the “great war”. Tips are being shared on how best to prepare. Online support groups are sharing experiences. Relatives and friends have been enlisted to assist in the struggle.

The prospect of staring for hours at a screen in the hope of securing a Taylor Swift tour ticket is widely known by now, but never more so than across south-east Asia, where just one tour stop, Singapore, has been included on the star’s schedule.

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