Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster Disaster Is Going to the Senate

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Amy Klobuchar announced that the Ticketmaster hearing would explore 'how consolidation in the live entertainment and ticketing industry harms customers and artists alike'

reported that the Justice Department is also investigating Live Nation for abusing its power over the music industry.

While I would like to believe that Swiftie Nation is powerful enough to tweet a federal investigation into existence, thenotes that it started well before this particular fiasco as part of the Biden administration’s antitrust efforts. However, the fans have seemingly inspired the U.S. Senate antitrust panel to hold a hearing on Ticketmaster and the music touring industry.

On Friday, Swift herself addressed the mess in an Instagram story, writing, “It’s really difficult for me to trust an outside entity” when it comes to mediating her fans’ experience and “excruciating for me to just watch mistakes happen with no recourse.” Suggesting that her team had discussed the imminent frenzy of ticket-buyers with Ticketmaster ahead of time, she added that “we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could.

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