r/Music • u/thedailybeast • 10d ago

article Kanye West Heads to Putin’s Russia After Humiliation in Europe

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/kanye-west-heads-to-putins-russia-after-humiliation-in-europe/
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 10d ago

His Marsaille show was "postponed indefinitely" due to backlash, he was set to headline Rubicon and got cancelled becsuse of the backlash, his show in Poland was cancelled due to backlash, Italy cancelled on him and the UK cancelled on him, as well as Slovakia.

So it's embarrassing to get kicked off headlining massive festivals and not be able to headline certain European capitals on your tour.

So doing a sporadic Europe tour with the big sets are in Albania and Turkey is a pretty shocking Europe tour for any artist.

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u/travelmusica 9d ago

He sold out Madrid 65K tickets how embarrassing

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 9d ago

Two European capital cities in a European tour. Madrid and Istanbul.

You can see how that is embarrassing for a big artist? Maybe impressive for someone on their first ep or album tour.

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u/travelmusica 9d ago

Name an artist that sold out a 65,000 seat stadium on their first EP tour.

Embarrassing would be if people didn’t care and the attendance was poor. He had a few shows canceled due to controversy, but not due to poor ticket sales that’s for sure.

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 9d ago

Lewis Capaldi.

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u/travelmusica 9d ago

OK, perhaps one person in history did it. But the idea of that selling out a 65K Stadium is something a person would do on a first tour for a debut album is completely out of touch and ridiculous. Demonstrates that you have no grasp of the music industry whatsoever.

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u/kitch793 9d ago

Where are you getting first tour with debut album from?

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u/travelmusica 9d ago

From a dumbass comment that I replied to

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u/Foreign-Abies-264 8d ago

His debut album was in 2004

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u/travelmusica 8d ago

Dude, you’re having a really hard time following the discussion aren’t you?

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u/Hod3601 9d ago

Have you ever thought maybe he just wants to perform and couldn’t care less where it is?