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TRISHA’S VERSION. It’s now Trisha Paytas’s turn to go on an “Eras Tour.”
By: Sam Simons
Media Writer
If you lost the Ticketmaster war trying to get tickets for Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour,” do not fear. Now you can lose the Ticketmaster war again by trying to get tickets to Trisha Paytas’s “Eras Tour.”
In case you have somehow missed the nine lives of Trisha Paytas, to put it simply, she is a longtime media personality. She’s been a YouTuber, a singer, an actress, a published author and a podcaster. Overall, she has released eight EPs, one studio album, 33 singles, eight movie cameos, 35 television appearances and 11 published books. If you think about it, she’s kind of like Barbie, with all her different career paths.
Now she is going on her own Eras tour, but it’s called “The Eras of Trish,” so it’s different enough, I guess. This will be her second tour, hitting 30 different U.S. cities. She kicked the tour off in Indianapolis on Feb. 20 and will continue through June 7. It’s kind of crazy that she isn’t going to the United Kingdom at all, considering her daughter, Malibu Barbie, is the reincarnation of the queen. But she will make some stops in Toronto.
As far as what fans can hope for at the tour, she will be primarily singing, meeting fans and going through all of her own eras. But expect the unexpected, as anything could happen with Trisha Paytas.
The marketing for this Eras tour definitely seems to resemble what Taylor Swift did first. However, this choice could have been done just to make a cute reference, because ever since the first “Eras Tour” the term Era has been Era-ing. Everything is an “era” now. So, why can’t Paytas also use the term? It can be fun to attach “era” to the different stages of life, like being in your college era, graduation era or your pooping era just to name a few. But at what point does it get to be too much, or when should there be a lawsuit?
Paytas is known to be a lot of things, some good and some bad. She is also no stranger to having her fair share of controversies and overall stirring the pot, having been “cancelled” numerous times for various incidents, including coming out as a transgender man and later retracting this, saying the n-word while rapping and making antisemitic comments. Her relationship with the internet and her fan base has been fraught, with a cycle of accidental or intentional offenses, backlash and apologies.
This new project has the potential to create some controversy, too – with her promotional poster design alone, it feels like an impersonation rather than what could have been an appreciation of Swift.
At the end of the day, Taylor Swift is probably way too busy to even care about the similarities between her tour and this one. But Paytas’s tour presents the growing theme that nothing feels original anymore. Even saying that nothing feels original anymore is unoriginal! But, how much does this really matter in such a saturated creative world?
Whether you love or hate her, still people should accept her for who she is, not who she is copying and trying to be. Regardless, Paytas will do whatever she wants in her tour like the diva that she is. Hopefully, her tour can help fans and her enter their “true selves” era.