Taylor Swift and the “Plot” of the Fly Swallowed at San Siro
The Taylor mania that has also invaded Italy with two sold out concerts at the San Siro Stadium in Milan (here is our review), inevitably, like all great pop and community phenomena, it brings with it a sea of anecdotes, stories and a maniacal taste in seeking hidden details. After all, it is the Swifties themselves, Taylor Swift’s fans, who are conducting a real “study”full of passion and love, of the lyrics, behaviors, clothes and words of their heroine. “Because nothing in Taylor’s story is left to chance,” repeat the followers. An approach that, through a game of mirrors, critics also have towards the pop star who see in many of his behaviors cold planning, little truth and the construction of a whole series of
situations and attitudes aimed at making people believe that “Taylor is one of us”.
Everything seems to lead back to a sort of “world divided in two”: between those who love Taylor and those who can’t stand her. Let’s be clear: it’s part of the narrative and feeds the myth, without affecting, among other things, the fairytale show that she offers, but rather making people talk about it also on surreal aspects. At the center of the debate between pros and cons of Taylor, almost as if they were two families unloading tweets and posts at each other, a fly has ended up. Yes, a tiny insect is the theme of the “clash” All true.
The facts: during the first date in Milan, the American singer-songwriter, at the centre of a perfect and flawless show, at a certain point had to stop, also giving a little cough: .“I swallowed a fly”. A smile, a long round of applause and then everything starts again without a hitch. It was immediately perceived by fans and many industry insiders as a gesture of truth.as Taylor demonstrates in her live performances he doesn’t lip-syncdespite Dave Grohl’s accusations, and that even the divine Taylor can have a little setback like all of us human beings.
The informers, however, did not let slip that this hitch had already happened several times, in London in June and in Chicago in 2023.thus accusing the singer-songwriter of staging gags constructed ad hoc, like this one with the fly or like that of the piano that doesn’t worka setback that occurred during the second Italian date, to seem “real” and make people believe they were singing everything, from beginning to end. A “fly-gate” also born in the wake of some articles, such as the one in “People”, which highlighted the fact, generating several comments, posts, tiktoks with explanations etc. There is actually a literature about it entitled “Errors Tour” which collects Taylor’s errors or alleged errors during his “Eras tour”which for anti-Taylor conspiracy theorists would all be artificial, while for fans they are real testimonies of her humanity and her fallibility. Meanwhile, last year’s overseas tour grossed $1.039 billion.becoming the most profitable of all time, but pop cultureas history teaches us, flies around even these amusing debates, just like a fly.
