[TOUR] Greatest Hits Tour 2024

i am actually still excited to go to my show, i'm leaving the province for it in edmonton. i feel like these days all her fans do is judge her and it's really getting obnoxious even just looking at her comment sections this past week @_@

my main concern is that i can't decide if i want to wear the sk8r boi shirt and tie or the girlfriend skirt outfit!! decisions decisions ..
also super excited to finally see don't tell me and when you're gone live teehee. like someone said earlier, many of us didn't get to see her live during her prime and it's nice that she's bringing some songs back that we missed :3 my ultimate wish is for unwanted to come back one day...

it'd also be pretty cool tonight to see if she brings up fans on stage at every stop.. pick me avril!

I don't think the short set has anything to do with that. This is her choice. He probably knows too but wanted to shade her, like "she can not do arenas anymore. Go do theaters!"

i think taylor set standards really high from her eras tour but to be fair.. greatest hits tours existed way before the eras tour (and from doing a little research, have around the same songs as avrils if not a few more) and that's more of her own thing and why she got so big again.

while i do hope that she can add a few more songs if she is able to, i also think it's really telling of her career that she is able to do a greatest hits tour in the first place (with a lot of public interest at that!) and people are still complaining about how she didnt add enough of her greatest hits lol

That statistic can mean everything and nothing at the same time. I don't think we can do an "average time" for a rock concert. Which band is playing? what and how big is their discography?

Just to give some context, Green Day are touring worldwide this year and they're doing their bigger hits of each era + Dookie and American Idiot in full. each single song. Those 2 albums alone are 95 minutes combined, so I guess their show is at least 120 minutes because they also play songs from other albums + pauses, interludes.

I think spending at least 100 USD to see such a short show like Avril's makes you have a good time but prevents you from going again next time!

I don’t think it’s so much that people “suddenly expect her to do something different”. This critique has come up before in her career. But I think it’s largely around how this particular tour was marketed/she spoke about it. She said on call her daddy that it would be a 90 minute set every night. There’s only a total of four songs that are different from the last tour. I think also, as people said above, standards are just a bit different with some artists doing so much more these days, particularly for a career celebration tour.

However, her health should be the main priority so the shorter set makes sense. If there was more variety in the singles she chose vs previous tours I don’t think ppl would be this upset. Perhaps because she doesn’t speak about her health anymore (which is totally understandable) the comparisons between her set and others’ are not taking this into account much.

It’s still a great time and it was nice seeing her beam in a lot of the closeup footage of this last Vancouver concert. I will always adore her no matter what. I hope people enjoy the show tonight and future shows and that the backlash dies down.

Rock concerts are shorter because they are high energy. Sure, if she wants to be a rock chick - fine. But then she should play instruments for all of those 15 songs. 🤷

That would be really nice! I think it might be the actual singing that is tiring though. Some of her ballads are much harder to sing/take more effort than the fast paced ones she does all the time. I would love more acoustic lives from her though! That was the main thing that drew me in as a fan in 2002.