I’ve decided to just be upfront and rather than send her a billion tweets a week, declaring my undying love, I’m opening up a section on my wezg.co.uk website devoted to Taylor Swift. I’m going to try my best to keep it subjective 😉 Main reason for the Wez G Taylor Swift Blog is that I’m going to be a bit out of control for almost a whole year, anticipating like a bounty bar, the tickets that I bought today for the Taylor Swift Eras tour to London at Wembley Stadium on 21st June 2024. It’s a long wait but I’m chuffed to bits to have a ticket. I was trying to get Anfield in Liverpool or Paris or Cardiff and still will be applying for tickets to these events, but London is basically a return to the town of my birth. I was born just a few miles up the road (Bishops Stortford) from Wembley. I’ve been to this amazing venue before to watch the football and also saw one of the best concerts of my life when I saw The Doors (21st Century Doors), perform in Wembley Arena, 20 odd years ago. I have an internal debate going on about whether LA Woman by The Doors is still my favourite ever album or if Taylor Swift – Midnights – has surpassed it? I think the constant Instagram stream I get daily, of a glittery swimsuit, beautiful, female performer at the top of her game, singing amazing, life-changing songs, might somewhat skew the results a little, because, trust, although he was gone before I was born I am a huge Jim Morrison and fan of The Doors. Jim just shoved two fingers up to the music industry and the world really and just didn’t give a flying f*ck at all, which I find very very innovative and impactful and good and he was inspiring as a role model. He was a revolution in his own right and his tragic death, at 27, haunts the world to this day and long into eternity.
“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.” James Douglas Morrison
Taylor sort of does her rebellious bit and is artistically capable of really getting her transcendental view across to the audience. She’s draws her energy from an eternal fountain – The Ancient Greeks called it ‘Ambrosia’ – and I don’t mean the rice pudding tins from your UK supermarket trolley – She is now, unquestionably, the biggest music artist the world has ever encountered in history. The Beatles are literally ‘Yesterday’. Last week she became the first musician to surpass 50 billion streams on Spotify. That figure is a lot higher than the human population of Planet Earth. So, are the little grey men tuning in, perhaps? Are the animals tuning in, in the jungle? She’s a phenomenon. I fell in love with her voice, repeatedly listening to Style, many years after its release, so, relatively speaking, I’m a newbie Swiftie., but a dedicated ‘Stan’ nonetheless. I dream of her doing my washing and ironing and cooking and cleaning., but if that doesn’t happen I’ll keep listening to her music and getting down with the swiftie social media crowd, and attending her live concerts, starting with Wembley Stadium on the sacred summer solstice. Let’s hope it’s not a Cruel Summer.
xx luvs ya Tay Tay xx
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