Brace yourselves: in less than a week, legions of fans will descend on Toronto ahead of the megastar’s mini-residency at Rogers Centre. For Swifties, it probably feels like Christmas in November. For everyone else, it sounds like a major headache.
are expected to visit from outside of Toronto between Nov. 14 and Nov 23. Traffic, naturally, will be a nightmare — anyone heading downtown can expect gridlock and soaring ride-share prices.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of those fans are expected to clog up the city’s public transit en route to the show and other events, such as the happening at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, which is expected to draw some 20,000 fans each night. “It’s not the music I hate, it’s the fans,” Mike Barber — a co-owner of Body Buzz Records, quipped to the Star, “I try not to think about Taylor Swift or her music all that much, but the phenomenon of (her) fandom is mind-boggling,” Barber explains. “To me, it’s mostly an indication of the collapse of all of the traditional music industry and music media that millions of people have coalesced around one songwriter as a sort-of popelike figure.
” To be fair, Barber has a particularly good reason to be annoyed — he and his now-wife had planned to throw a wedding celebration in Toronto on Nov. 16. They were forced to push the date up by several weeks after discovering that the “She knows how to write a bridge, though,” concedes Barber.
“That puts her ahead of like 95 per .