She is big enough to build her mega-church like venues, or just rent a mega church. The has way to many of those anyway, so some actual use might come from them. The important thing would be for Taylor and a few others to give the middle finger to live nation / ticketmaster, but like mentioned earlier, its not in her or her labels interest.
Even if it is in her interest to not deal with Ticketmaster, her business is performing life music. She as her team aren't trying to create work for themselves to screw TM, they want to do what they do. Imagine trying to set up logistics at a venue/church which has never held a large concert before.
Have you ever been to a mega church? They basically are a large concert. Not the 80,000 people kind, but of the size that would rival a decent percentage of touring acts. Lakewood church in Houston has 45,000 attendees a week.
I think the church idea is a brilliant TM workaround, until they lock that up too.
Lakewood Church isn't a normal church building. It literally was multi-purpose sports arena (Compaq Center, hosted the Rockets, Areos, and arena football, hosted concerts for ZZ Top, Shakira, Kid Rock, Nelly, AC/DC, Metallica, Prince, Michael Jackson, and many other notable artists) until 2003. So its got more in common in its bones to a sports arena than a typical church.
Also, yes, a giant ultra megachurch like Lakewood might get 45,000 attendees a week. That's usually split between a few services each of which is like 90 minutes long. So like maybe 18k people peak. The average Taylor Swift concert has 72,000 people in the stadium for several hours.
Also, while yes a large church probably has a cafe or something similar, its usually not equipped to provide food for 70,000 people. Nor bathrooms for said 70,000 people, as most people going to the church are once again only there for like 90 minutes instead of several hours.
Average Taylor swift concerts are 80000+, your example of the biggest available facility is both atypical (it was originally a non-church facility) and it’s still smaller than small concerts.
This is before we get to the notoriously censorious and fragile beliefs of the people operating those facilities.
Mega churches do not have anything like the capacity required for folk like Taylor swift, etc
Not in capacity of people nor production facilities.
The whole reason for this suit is that essentially the same outfits doing ticketing have exclusive licenses with the majority of facilities that can support the big acts.
