Pita invites Taylor Swift to Thailand
published : 7 Jul 2023 at 09:06
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
Taylor Swift is coming to Southeast Asia next year but fans will have to go to Singapore if they want to see her.
But Pita Limjaroenrat wants the American pop megastar to play in Thailand.
The Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate made the pitch on Thursday on Twitter in response to a tweet from Swift about new dates being added to the European leg of her Eras Tour in 2024. He wrote:
“Hey Taylor! Big fan of yours. Btw, Thailand is back on track to be fully democratic after you had to cancel last time due to the coup. The Thai people have spoken via the election and we all look forward to welcoming you to this beautiful nation of ours!
Do come and I’ll be singing Lavender Haze with you!
- Tim”
Swift was scheduled to play a sold-out show in Bangkok on June 9, 2014. But a curfew was in place after the military coup staged by Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on May 22 of that year.
Organisers BEC-Tero announced on May 27 that the concert was being cancelled “due to recent events”.
The singer played some other Asian dates in June of that year but the Bangkok show was never rescheduled.
Swift will play six shows in Singapore starting on March 2 next year. Online presales of tickets opened on Wednesday with more than a million people reported to have been in the queue.
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Vocabulary
- back on track: operating normally again -
- coup: the seizure of power in a country by a group of people, usually members of the armed forces - รัฐประหาร
- curfew: a law that does not allow people to go outside between a particular time in the evening and a particular time in the morning - กฎอัยการศึก คือห้ามออกนอกบ้านในยามวิกาล
- democracy (noun): a system of government in which all the people of a country can vote to elect their representatives - การปกครองแบบประชาธิปไตย
- invite: to ask somebody formally to go somewhere or do something - เชิญ
- pitch: to try to persuade someone to do something by telling them how good and important it is - กล่อม
- reschedule: to change the time at which something has been arranged to happen, especially so that it takes place later - จัดตารางเวลาใหม่, เปลี่ยนตารางใหม่
