The enthusiasm of some of the Swifties arriving with her has clashed with local sensibilities.
TOKYO – Taylor mania has landed in Tokyo. But the enthusiasm of some of the Swifties arriving with her has clashed with local sensibilities.Taylor Swift performs at the Tokyo Dome for four nights this weekThe problem, as some domestic concertgoers see it, is that these foreign fans do not share the rather restrained Japanese approach to taking in a show.
Another post on X, accompanied by a short video of audience members hoisting up their cellphones to capture the scene onstage, complained that “there were many foreigners who couldn’t respect manners”. Etiquette was on the mind of Ms Chiharu Nakayoshi, 31, an occupational therapist, when she attended Swift’s concert on Feb 7. She said her enjoyment of the performance had been undermined by the behaviour of non-Japanese concertgoers who left their assigned seats and blocked her view in the VIP section.
Thousands of Chinese Swifties joined WeChat message groups to swop tips on scoring tickets, form car pools to travel outside Tokyo and offer shopping suggestions, said Ms Yuqing Mai, 23, a university administrator in Canada who stopped in Tokyo to see the first concert on Feb 7 on her way to see family in China for the Chinese New Year.
Ms Mariel Milner, 32, a communications strategy director at an advertising agency in New York, and Ms Lindsay Milner Katz, 31, a sales director at a New York media company, said they had not initially planned in 2024 to visit their sister, Ms Dianne Milner, 34, who works in Tokyo as a lawyer for Hewlett-Packard.