Senate announces hearing date for Taylor Swift's Ticketmaster disaster
Washington DC - Swifties, retribution day is almost here. The US Senate has officially confirmed the date for a hearing regarding Ticketmaster and the disaster that was Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour Presale.
The Senate is on, as Ms. Swift would say, their "Vigilante Sh*t."
The upcoming hearing, fittingly titled "That's the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment," will be held on January 24.
"The issues within America's ticketing industry were made painfully obvious when Ticketmaster's website failed hundreds of thousands of fans hoping to purchase tickets for Taylor Swift's new tour, but these problems are not new," Senator Amy Klobuchar said in a statement, per Variety.
During the presale for the 33-year-old's singer highly-anticipated return to touring, Swifties battled seemingly endless queues, website crashes, and overpriced tickets. Some fans were even bounced off the site after putting tickets in their cart, leaving them entirely out of luck. For some inexplicable reason, the general sale was subsequently canceled as there was no longer enough inventory.
Swift responded to the chaos with an Instagram story, telling fans that she had been assured the site would be able to handle the demand, which they clearly were not. She did not name Ticketmaster in the statement.
Thankfully, the Anti-Hero singer pulled through by giving some fans a second chance at the sale, but the case is most certainly not closed. In addition to the Senate hearing, several lawmakers announced plans to investigate Ticketmaster.
Swift will kick off her 52-date The Eras Tour on March 17.
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