The tickets alone were hard to get — and by no means cheap.
Then there was the merch, lodging, parking, airfare, the search and cost of the perfect fits – and who knew the price of thousands of tiny plastic beads could add up to so much?
It cost Taylor Swift fans hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend The Eras Tour, the singer-songwriter’s first outing since 2017-2018’s The Reputation Tour and a jaunt that found Swift floating through nine out of her 10 studio albums and nearly two decades of hits.
She’s ending the first North American leg of the biggest-selling tour of the year with a record-setting six sold-out shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Aug. 3-5 and 7-9. And simply going to one of those evenings wasn’t going to be enough for two mother-daughter duos from Orange County.
There are Swift fans, and then there are the full-blown, diehard loyal Swifties. How do I know? Because some of the diehards are my friends.
I’ve witnessed my longtime friend Lori Totten, of Brea, and her soon-to-be 19-year-old daughter Tiffany go to extraordinary lengths to join the millions of fans that scored tickets to see Swift out on her The Eras Tour. I was with Lori on a trip to Boston in 2019, sitting at an Italian restaurant and waiting for our dinner, when she manically tried to purchase tickets on her phone to Swift’s Lover Fest, the ill-fated 2020 outing in support of Swift’s seventh studio album, “Lover.” That would have played off as the first big concert at the all-new SoFi Stadium that year had it not been for the COVID-19 pandemic.
I just also happened to be with her and two of our girlfriends on a trip to Big Bear when Swift dropped her latest album, “Midnights,” last year. We stayed up to listen to the album through and through in our cozy cabin as the clock struck midnight.
When The Eras Tour went on sale last year and the overwhelming amount of fans crashed the Ticketmaster website, Lori and her longtime friend Andrea Ramos of…
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