adminNEW JERSEY. – Looks like Taylor Swift fans have found a solution to not miss any moment during her concert.
On TikTok multiple fans are seen discussing ways to make sure they don’t miss a single song that Swift performs.
One TikTok user posted a clip on May 18, which showed one of her friends helping to strap another into an adult diaper that was hidden under her gold dress.
“If I can hold it on a flight from Ca to HI, I can hold it for a Taylor Swift concert,” one TikTok user wrote.
Another TikToker spoke about how she bought tickets to see the singer when she comes to Houston and how she plans to buy a 18-piece pack for the show.
“The amount of stress and time it took me to get Taylor Swift tickets, I will be getting an adult diaper. Because I’m not missing a minute of it,” she said.
A lot of her fans have been following this trend that has gone viral, but there is also a lot of people not feeling this new trend.
Taylor Swift is currently on her ‘Eras’ tour which folks say might be her biggest tour yet. Forbes released an article back in March and predicted that Swift would US$500 million to US$1.5 Billion for this tour.
On Wednesday night it emerged that some of her fans could not remember a thing about her latest show despite listening, and dancing, for three hours and sampling over 40 songs.
It sounds almost unbelievable, but many fans are claiming to suffer from “post-concert amnesia”.
Psychologists say emotions and time may be behind the phenomenon.
From out-of-body experiences to entering a dream-like state, Swift’s fans – or Swifties as they prefer to be known – have taken to social media in recent days to reveal their guilt at not being able to remember key moments from the Eras tour.
Amnesia can be quite a serious symptom, referring to the loss of memories, experiences and information.
But Dr Michelle Phillips, a senior lecturer in music psychology from the Royal Northern College of Music, says the idea of post-concert amnesia is not as scary as it sounds.
It will rarely be the case that fans have absolutely no memory of being at a concert.
“In fact, it’s likely to be one of the things they remember attending for the rest of their lives,” says Dr Phillips.
“It’s simply that they encode some aspects of the event in memory, and not others.”
So whether you tend to focus more on your favourite artist’s dance moves, or just enjoy being at a show with your loved ones, people pay attention to whatever is important to them – and encode memories of these things, rather than the music.
The old saying “time flies when you’re having fun” is an easy way to think about the idea of post-concert amnesia.
According to Dr Phillips, when fans are excited and so immersed in a moment, they can feel as though “time has suddenly passed” and they haven’t been able to properly process everything they’ve just seen, heard and felt. – BBC/msn.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter