Like many other Swifties, Sophie Scott’s experience on Ticketmaster Tuesday was filled with frustration and heartbreak.
Taking to her Instagram Stories, Scott — the longtime girlfriend of Patriots quarterback Mac Jones — detailed her struggle to score tickets to Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated “The Eras Tour,” which will play three shows in Foxborough, Mass., beginning Friday, May 19.
“Ticketmaster was NOT my friend today :/,” Scott captioned the post, which featured the online queue of 2,000 plus fans ahead of her.
Sophie Scott, the girlfriend of Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, detailed her struggle to score Taylor Swift tickets in a recent Instagram Story. Instagram/Sophie Scott
Like other Swifties, Sophie Scott endured long waits on Ticketmaster on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, when tickets to Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” were available via presale. Instagram/Sophie Scott“Sat here and tried for 8 hours straight with a presale code and still never got a ticket 😭 😭.”
Scott was among the countless Swifties who voiced their displeasure at the ticketing giant on social media, as many fans encountered difficulties in snagging tickets on the first day of the presale. At one point, online queues were “temporarily paused” and users even received error messages.
“Can Taylor Swift fans have a redo on tickets sales? @Ticketmaster clearly wasn’t prepared for this amount of traffic, and all verified fans with actual presale codes are unable to buy tickets. The site has done nothing but crash,” one user griped. Another posted, “Ticketmaster is like ‘we’re sorry about all the technical problems, this demand was unexpected’ as if taylor swift isn’t one of the biggest artists in the galaxy.”
Sophie Scott, who has been linked to Mac Jones since 2019, was among the many Taylor Swift fans who vented on social media. Instagram/Sophie ScottElsewhere, some users likened Tuesday’s ticketing chaos to “The Hunger Games,” the dystopian fiction series that pits children against each other until a lone survivor remains.
“The Taylor Swift ticket presale is proof that the hunger games could actually happen in real life,” one user joked as another remarked, “Taylor Swift really said the Great War & now we’re all fighting for our lives like we’re in the hunger games. She’s a genius.”
Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” kicks off in March 2023 and runs through August 2023. Getty ImagesVerified fans who received presale codes Monday got the first shot at purchasing tickets Tuesday. A separate presale kicks off Wednesday for Capital One cardholders, while tickets to the general public go on sale Friday.
May the odds ever be in Scott’s favor.
