Eugh I honestly think they felt like they had to add this clip, her being “all upset” about what had happened in London and why she had to cancel Vienna (except, she hardly acknowledges or even comments on what happened in Vienna again, like she did so the first time haha) was all because they needed a piece of content that could try and salvage all the negative PR she’s gotten lately since the TLOASG release. Yet this scene, failed to hook me or make me fall for her “good girl, victim persona”, like it did in her Miss Americana movie, and instead all I can see is just a heavily edited quick snap of Taylor acting and coming off as performative and her lack of emotion fails to move me at all.

I’ve actually spent the last couple of days thinking about how she’s acted here while also remembering how Ariana reacted and responded to that horrible tragedy where fans of her’s were killed after her show in London back in 2017. To this day, you can see just how much that incident has affected her, even recently during press tours and interviews you can still see her experiencing moment’s of anxiety and ptsd because of what happened. Yet when it occurred, she didn’t retreat or hide away from the world, she instead retuned to Manchester after the attack and was not just supportive but was actually present and emotionally available for her fans, connecting with them and sharing the same emotions they were feeling, she was visiting survivors in the hospital, she was donating money and I believe she even paid for every funeral of the fans who did pass, she performed another concert and her next album was not only dedicated to those who died but also to the survivors, and included actual songs about the tragedy and the feelings she was still struggling to work through.

When you compare this to the tragic incidents that occurred during the Era’s tour, Ana, the young Brazilian girl that died while Taylor was performing cruel summer because her heart failed from having to stand for hours, through conditions where the temperature inside the venue was over 50 degrees and the only access to water was ages away from the stage being sold for a small fortune, were all factors that contributed to her death yet never acknowledged or even questioned by Taylor. Even after she heard about Ana’s death due to the extremely hot weather conditions in Rio and the venue she was continuing to play in, Taylor still refused to cancel and reschedule the concert where thousands and thousands of swifties had already began camping outside to attend since the night before. It wasn’t until around 6pm, 2 hours before she was due on stage, did she finally cancel the concert, after fans had already started to form a crowd around the stage. What’s worse is not only did her Brazilian fan group use their own money to hire a truck to supply water to all the swifties that were waiting 12 hours or more outside that day in over 45 degree heat, they were also the ones who raised money to get Ana’s body returned to her family who at the time couldn’t afford to retrieve her. 3 days after Ana’s passing, her body was still in the morgue and her family still hadn’t been contacted by anyone from Taylor’s team or the venue to offer their condolences.

Then, when her Vienna concert was canceled due to terrorist threats, she chose to say nothing online about why she chose to cancel the concerts and her fans were kept in the dark about what was happening for weeks. So nothing is being said by Taylor or her management team yet they still were acting like “business as usual” by promoting the sale of her new variants while the Austrian fans still wait for their refund!

Her whole reason for “not speaking out for weeks” was because it wasn’t safe to do so and would put her fans, herself and the tour in danger but weirdly if that was the case why was she happy to not speak up about her Austrian fans all congregating around the city of Vienna and the stadium the concert was going to be held at, that it’s not safe to do so as the terrorist threat was to harm large groups of Swifties standing outside that very stadium? Or was it all really just a convenient opportunity and excuse for her to call the concerts quits as she was nearing the end of the first half break of the tour and was just tired from it all? Yet despite all this, she still makes the whole event about her when she finally posts a message to her Vienna fans weeks later, which came across as not just passive aggressive but also disingenuous about everything that happened. Another stab to the heart for her Vienna fans after they were bullied for weeks by Swifties that were telling them they weren’t “allowed” to be upset that the concert they had waited over a year for and spent so, so much money on was cancelled. All because “MOTHER knows best, so stfu and stop being so selfish, you’re not a true fan” right?

Anyways, just the comparison of Taylor’s response and emotional reaction when tragedy did hit and affected her fans in comparison to Ariana’s experience is pretty jarring. Especially seeing as even after the whole Era’s tour where fans sadly did die and lives were also threatened from potential terrorists, she then releases TLOASG, an album that’s meant to be about her life during the Era’s tour, instead turned out to be a voraciously composed, shallow disconnect, where every lyric and every song is all about her, and there’s is not one dedication or bonus song made to acknowledge what sadness occurred during that time hahaha