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The country prohibits paying the pop star to play anywhere else in Southeast Asia. Thailand’s prime minister said the prize could amount to $3 million per show.
By Mike Ives, Muktita Suhartono and Camille Elemia
Mike Ives reported from Seoul, Muktita Suhartono from Bangkok and Camille Elemia from Manila.
Taylor Swift has arrived in Southeast Asia, or at least a small part of it: her six sold artists have positioned themselves in Singapore, the richest country in the region.
Many of its enthusiasts in this part of the world that is home to more than six hundred million people are disappointed. But the Singapore leg of Swift’s hugely popular Eras Tour, which began last weekend and ends on Saturday, is a comfortable force. coup d’état and a seasoning for the country’s post-pandemic economic recovery.
The exhibits — and the undisclosed value Singapore paid to host them — have also sparked diplomatic tensions with two of its neighbors, Thailand and the Philippines.
Last month, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said publicly that Singapore had paid Swift up to $3 million for the exhibition, on the condition that she not play anywhere else in Southeast Asia. A Philippine lawmaker later said this is not “what smart neighbors do. “
Singapore backed down. First, his culture minister said the actual price of the exclusivity deal, which he declined to mention, was not “that high. “The country’s former special ambassador went so far as to call the complaint “bitter grapes. “Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told reporters he did not consider the deal diplomatically “hostile. “
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