Taylor Swift plays the Bridgestone Arena multiple nights in a row here in Nashville and sells them all out.
Tickets get expensive. Really expensive. Up into the high hundreds, even $1000 a ticket.
What is interesting is that on any of those given nights you could go to any number of other venues in town and hear live bands with a female lead singer singing Taylor Swift songs for $5 at the door.
Same songs.
Same city.
Same night.
$5 vs. $1000.
Free parking vs. $30 parking
$2 beer vs. $12 beer
Manageable crowd vs. a hurricane of a crowd
The $5 show is a deal in every way possible!!!
But you don’t choose that one.
Because you want to see a star.
Because a star has power.
We want to feel the power of someone leading us.
We want to believe they know where the destination is and all we have to do is ride along.
Star power is a real thing.
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