{"id":188303,"date":"2025-06-16T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188303\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T06:31:08","slug":"why-did-taylor-swifts-london-tour-sell-out-but-not-beyonces-because-mum-and-dad-arent-paying-for-beyonce-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/188303\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Taylor Swift&#8217;s London tour sell out, but not Beyonce&#8217;s? Because Mum and Dad aren&#8217;t paying for Beyonce tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As for the older members of Gen Z, it\u2019s just a shame that they are too blinded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/charli-xcx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charli XCX <\/a>to appreciate a great when they see one (myself included). But Beyonce doesn\u2019t need to find a new fanbase in a new generation, or return with sell out tours. For more than 30 years, she\u2019s had royal status. She was the Taylor Swift of her time. She\u2019s performed with the likes of Prince and Tina Turner, won more Grammys than any other artist, revolutionised what it means to be a \u2018Single Lady\u2019, and sold more than 617,000 copies of her self-titled album in just three days in 2013. Maybe Taylor\u2019s snatched the crown, but Beyonce hasn\u2019t lost it for lack of talent; her Beyhive is simply on a sabbatical. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As for the older members of Gen Z, it\u2019s just a shame that they are too blinded by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[2543,748,41751,393,4884,257,8733,24414,16,15,12735],"class_list":{"0":"post-188303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-beyonce","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-country-music","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-taylor-swift","15":"tag-tickets","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wembley-stadium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114691642726927615","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}