2023-07-14 12:14:43
The situation is getting worse with every passing minute. Two screens flicker side by side. A live ticker with a minute-by-minute update runs on the website of Germany’s largest news magazine. Three people are connected in parallel via a video call, whose eyes have long been rectangular from staring at the monitors. “If we can’t get in here, then you’re our only hope,” whispered one.
Farangies Ghafoor is a science editor at the Tagesspiegel. At this point she would like to thank her colleagues who tried to get tickets for the Taylor Swift concert in Stockholm for her.
No, there is no delicate military operation going on, nor is there a major news situation in the newsroom of the Tagesspiegel. This scene took place in hundreds of thousands of German households at the same time last Wednesday. The common object of desire: concert tickets for next year’s tour of Taylor Swift.
First or third place is secondary. On social media, American fans even report that they have happily won places behind the scenes. It doesn’t matter! The main thing is that the singer waves to them once. Silly? No! Taylor Swift is the best thing that might have happened to our togetherness.
“Hear ‘Enchanted’ live once!”
In our atomized society, which rubs once morest each other in countless conflicts and continues to divide every day, the greatest songwriter of the present at least for a few hours.
Everyone knows someone who went through the hanging game last Wednesday. An older Tagesspiegel colleague was also waiting in the virtual queue. For his daughters, of course. Although of course he also likes Taylor’s discography. “Hear ‘Enchanted’ live!” he said with a smile on his lips.
The enthusiasm for Swift’s typical chord progressions connects us despite all the opposites. The great promise of pop music to bring people together is alive. Climate sinners or savers, non-binary or cis man, anti-abortion or pro-choice activist, Green voter or CDU voter, 25 years or 56 years: Shake it off!
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There is music for every taste (one expert has identified 1385 different genres). It may seem cultivated to settle down permanently in your musical niche or your political beliefs. But the masses of fans standing in the rain in front of sold-out stadiums around the world want to sing regarding love, pain and jealousy – together.
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