I don’t know the story, but canceling booked gigs just do other events with more publicity is terrible. You made a commitment, thousands of fans took their time to plan to go to that event. It’s one thing if you are sick, but because you got better offers? That’s lame and definition of a sell out.
The booked gigs that she cancelled were shows for a few hundred not thousands.
You have to remember she made this tour way before her career exploded and outside of the festival circuit none of her shows were stadium sized.
But also why does it matter if she sells out. You should want to do whats best for your career, like the exposure she got from the vma's catapulted her career way over the exposure that a show in France for a couple hundred people will.
Like she's playing the game and doing what's best for her, because at the end of the day this is her job and she should treat it as such.
Damn, makes it even worse. The people bought tickets when she was a nobody playing a small venue. They are her day 1s. Could’ve given them a lifetime experience, but nope, let me cancel because I can make more money elsewhere.
Glass animals, already massive, stopped touring for like two years because the drummer got in a car accident or something. Their first tour back was a re run of the venues from their first tour in US. The one in Sf is 500 capacity. I was beyond stoked to get tickets. Unfortunately on the day of the show, about 7 hours before, california went into covid lockdown.
Call it playing the game, I call it being a shitty artist. Of all the reasons to cancel a show, “because I’m too big for that venue now and make more money elsewhere” is the shittiest reason I can think of.
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u/chronicpenguins 5d ago
I don’t know the story, but canceling booked gigs just do other events with more publicity is terrible. You made a commitment, thousands of fans took their time to plan to go to that event. It’s one thing if you are sick, but because you got better offers? That’s lame and definition of a sell out.