Beyoncé is giving away free tickets after struggling to fill seats

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16 minutes ago, OliviaRodrigoStan said:

I'm talking about people with no money for a bus ticket or a new pair of jeans, people with a single pair of shoes and a lot of daily worries. I have no idea if that's the case for the shelters Beyoncé and her team approached, it's a different country so it might be a different story

In the UK, foodbank use is so prevalent now that a lot of foodbank users are people in work. There's a real issue of worker poverty in the UK now. 

So a lot of foodbank users are doing so because of how expensive the UK has gotten. They are often in the position where they can't afford a full food shop after paying all their bills with their payslip. 

Foodbanks as a result, look a little different in the UK now to the stereotypical image of them/soup kitchens.

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The hate boner some of y’all have for Beyoncé needs to be studied. And I say this as a dyed in the wool hater.

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I think this is amazing that poor people can get free tickets to see Beyonce, yall commenting that it's not fair for fans who paid tickets are weird 

Those who get the tickets are getting them trough a food charity, meaning they STRUGGLE to buy food

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26 minutes ago, chathonnete said:

I think this is amazing that poor people can get free tickets to see Beyonce, yall commenting that it's not fair for fans who paid tickets are weird 

Those who get the tickets are getting them trough a food charity, meaning they STRUGGLE to buy food

Yeah there is something incredibly weird about people feeling anger or jealousy towards people who are in poverty getting 1 single chance at a nice evening.

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Sorry not sorry but this is amazing. Perhaps the greatest thing she did for a while. I applaud that tho the reason seems a bit selfish if that’s only for the stadium not to look empty but we’ll still PREACH and shout out to the winners 

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22 hours ago, salty like sodium said:

Yes and no, the standards to which women in the industry are held are totally not the same as men. For example: Beyoncé is being dragged all over the internet for not commenting on P Diddy, a guy she barely even knows and has never collaborated with. Meanwhile, Morgan Wallen said the n-word on camera (among other trespasses) and somehow is rewarded with being the #1 album in the US for several weeks in a row.

Women are expected to sing, dance, write and produce their own material while also being unrealistically thin and beautiful and people doubt them at every turn and take credit for their writing, and also expected to be both sexy but also asexual and uncontroversial and perfectly poised and gracious. Men are just expected to show up, preferably sober, but it's not a requirement.

On one hand, women are expected to take accountability and responsibility for the actions of men they barely know. On the other, men are expected to be men and say sh*t and that's ok. There are double standards and the fanbases are also guilty of that.

You literally hear all these stories of men suddenly being cancelled for SA people – but Katy Perry got cancelled for travelling to space and working with a guy who had been accused of SA, even though she herself was not guilty of assaulting anyone. Men have to literally commit crimes to be cancelled, and even then, it takes years and they always bounce back (see: Doctor Luke still being able to find work). There is still a huge double standard in our society.  

I get all of that but that's entirely my point - we should just be treating artists as gender neutral, stop constantly thinking of them as men and women when critiquing them. You're just critiquing art, you should never feel inclined to be nicer to a certain kind of artist because they come from an oppressed group. I really don't need to be told how to speak to my own kind. You know how men have a way of talking to and about other men? I do the same for women. But for some reason, women can't be critical of their own.

If a woman does something worthy of criticism, we shouldn't hold back just because she's a woman. Women are just people at the end of the day, we need to stop treating men and women like different species. All humans should be held accountable for their actions. And yes, you should be criticised for small stuff too. Major crimes are not the only reason worth criticising someone. Beyonce should absolutely be criticised for not speaking up about anything she knows about Diddy considering that she's apparently a feminist and Katy should absolutely be criticised for going into space when it caused so much harm to the environment and took away the achievements of actual female astronauts all for a bit of attention. If men did these things, I would be just as outraged. I don't know what makes you think that people are only getting at them because they're women. GGD users really lay into the likes of Ed Sheeran, Morgan Wallen, Chris Brown, etc. If there's one type of person who doesn't give anyone a pass, it's pop fans.

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5 hours ago, GoldenPonyboy said:

My issue is that it feels predetory towards die hard fans that will be there day one during presale and them casual fans get to have better and cheaper seats

I totally get that too. That's sadly also still part of the gamble though – diehard fans get access to exclusive presales which usually means easier access to tickets (and sometimes a ticket guarantee). What is never guaranteed is whether the show will sell out and appreciate in ticket prices, or not sell out and depreciate. As a fan it's then up to us to decide if we want to guarantee attendance and what price we're comfortable with, or whether we're willing to gamble and risk not going at all. There are some shows I was willing to gamble on and didn't care about buying a ticket in the presale: Joanne and Artpop ball. (I ended up not going to either of them: didn't want to see Artpop live, and for Joanne the tour was cancelled on me lol). But in both cases, tickets were available the week before the show. The Cowboy Carter tour was a tour I really wanted to see and buy a ticket to day 1, and I would've really been upset if I had slept on the sales and the show had sold out. Now the show didn't sell out – but if it had I would've been more upset than I was at overpaying for a ticket on Day 1, if that makes sense? For Artpop and Joanne, I didn't feel that way so I didn't buy a ticket in the presales. It's sadly always a gamble, the only difference is that as consumers we're used to shows selling out, but I think that's going to be less and less of a thing moving forwards, at least with our faves as they grow older.

5 hours ago, Wet Fire said:

Why is it so hard to accept that Beyoncé's foray into country hasn't been publicly as acknowledged as she'd have liked? She made an album that fuses country with other genres, a very commendable effort, a solid record in my opinion. But a lot of people have not been on board with it. And that's totally okay.

I'm confused who you're talking to, I don't think anyone in this thread has claimed the contrary to what you just said. It's pretty much a given fact that the album did not have the kind of reception they expected. But also – the tour ticket prices were ridiculously high compared to past tours and that also did not help. If the ticket prices had been closer to Renaissance prices it probably would have had less issues selling out. There were lower bowl seats selling for $1,000 without any VIP extras this time around. 

5 hours ago, RenegAde said:

Well people are not going to ignore others also being misogynistic and constantly diminishing the success of their favourite artist and i cant say i 100% blame them. Yes its petty but it is what it is

So if you're so above it all then YOU be the adult and avoid spaces like this instead of crashing out or at least keep the same energy for every artist that gets this treatment on gagadaily then maybe ill take your sentiment more seriously.

Witnessing one person be misogynistic doesn't automatically give another the right to be misogynistic in return? And then people say that the Handmaid's Tale is just fiction.  It's quite telling that when someone called you out on your behaviour your automatic response was to try to justify it with some pseudo-argument that somehow gives you "the right" to behave that way, before telling them to somehow behave even better because you had 0 interest in understanding what was harmful about your behaviour. Pretty antisocial... I stand with @Future Lovers. 

1 hour ago, StrawberryBlond said:

I get all of that but that's entirely my point - we should just be treating artists as gender neutral, stop constantly thinking of them as men and women when critiquing them. You're just critiquing art, you should never feel inclined to be nicer to a certain kind of artist because they come from an oppressed group. I really don't need to be told how to speak to my own kind. You know how men have a way of talking to and about other men? I do the same for women. But for some reason, women can't be critical of their own.

If a woman does something worthy of criticism, we shouldn't hold back just because she's a woman. Women are just people at the end of the day, we need to stop treating men and women like different species. All humans should be held accountable for their actions. And yes, you should be criticised for small stuff too. Major crimes are not the only reason worth criticising someone. Beyonce should absolutely be criticised for not speaking up about anything she knows about Diddy considering that she's apparently a feminist and Katy should absolutely be criticised for going into space when it caused so much harm to the environment and took away the achievements of actual female astronauts all for a bit of attention. If men did these things, I would be just as outraged. I don't know what makes you think that people are only getting at them because they're women. GGD users really lay into the likes of Ed Sheeran, Morgan Wallen, Chris Brown, etc. If there's one type of person who doesn't give anyone a pass, it's pop fans.

Given the reply you gave, I'm not sure you got any of what I just said, actually... Since what I'm saying is that female artists are not being treated the same way as male artists, because people have subconscious desires to be harsher and more demanding with women than they are with men. If anything, people are meaner to women and nicer to men, not the other way around. No one said anything about holding back because they are women or anything at all – just that people seem to have much stronger opinions on here about women's behaviours than they do about men's. And you're also twisting the point I made to fit your narrative when what I said is that people are giving female artists a rougher time over the small stuff than they give male artists over the big stuff. I mean R Kelly was on trial for SA in 2002 and still somehow had a career until 2019, and the entire world supported that and let that slide. Men do worse things constantly but are always let off the hook, every single time. Again, just look at Morgan Wallen: he's being rewarded for his problematic behaviour. Andrew Tate is another example. Maybe on GGD people are more balanced in how they criticise but globally the women do get more flack for less than men, especially in the press, and that was the point I was making.

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22 hours ago, salty like sodium said:

I totally get that too. That's sadly also still part of the gamble though – diehard fans get access to exclusive presales which usually means easier access to tickets (and sometimes a ticket guarantee). What is never guaranteed is whether the show will sell out and appreciate in ticket prices, or not sell out and depreciate. As a fan it's then up to us to decide if we want to guarantee attendance and what price we're comfortable with, or whether we're willing to gamble and risk not going at all. There are some shows I was willing to gamble on and didn't care about buying a ticket in the presale: Joanne and ARTPOP ball. (I ended up not going to either of them: didn't want to see ARTPOP live, and for Joanne the tour was cancelled on me lol). But in both cases, tickets were available the week before the show. The Cowboy Carter tour was a tour I really wanted to see and buy a ticket to day 1, and I would've really been upset if I had slept on the sales and the show had sold out. Now the show didn't sell out – but if it had I would've been more upset than I was at overpaying for a ticket on Day 1, if that makes sense? For ARTPOP and Joanne, I didn't feel that way so I didn't buy a ticket in the presales. It's sadly always a gamble, the only difference is that as consumers we're used to shows selling out, but I think that's going to be less and less of a thing moving forwards, at least with our faves as they grow older.

 

@Future Lovers

 

 

I somewhat agree, however using dynamic pricing as a way to inflate the initial sales is not good, if anything, proces should increase after when there are fewer tickets available

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On 6/9/2025 at 4:28 PM, Zombiecat said:

 

the source being the sun so take of that what you will

 

 

No tea no shade but there’s always this comment for an article from the sun but every time, they are correct. Most recent example being the Mexico show for Mayhem lol

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12 minutes ago, Lextyr97 said:

No tea no shade but there’s always this comment for an article from the sun but every time, they are correct. Most recent example being the Mexico show for Mayhem lol

I mean it comes from the fact that the Sun colluded with previous UK governments to surpress evidence of police and state failure and subsequent corruption in the death of 97 people at Hillsborough.

And the fact that the Sun continues to this day to be a right wing facist mouthpiece. 

Don't read them. Don't support them. 

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19 minutes ago, GoldenPonyboy said:

 

I somewhat agree, however using dynamic pricing as a way to inflate the initial sales is not good, if anything, proces should increase after when there are fewer tickets available

100% agree. I think back in the day the artist presale never had dynamic pricing, and I was really disappointed to see that that happened this time. I personally NEVER pay dynamic pricing prices for tickets. I either pay for the VIP package at the advertised cost (like for Mayhem floor seats), or I paid for the maximum "normal price" that is advertised by ticketmaster (for cowboy carter it was like £280 here which is around $375). I hate dynamic pricing too much to ever be willing to pay that much for a show tbh. I also remember the days 10 years ago when a VIP ticket costed $375. Times have really changed. 

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2 minutes ago, Bronco said:

I mean it comes from the fact that the Sun colluded with previous UK governments to surpress evidence of police and state failure and subsequent corruption in the death of 97 people at Hillsborough.

And the fact that the Sun continues to this day to be a right wing facist mouthpiece. 

Don't read them. Don't support them. 

And to this day, for every one bit of factually correct journalism that exists in a copy of The Sun, there are five factually incorrect claims that accompany it. 

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45 minutes ago, Bronco said:

I mean it comes from the fact that the Sun colluded with previous UK governments to surpress evidence of police and state failure and subsequent corruption in the death of 97 people at Hillsborough.

And the fact that the Sun continues to this day to be a right wing facist mouthpiece. 

Don't read them. Don't support them. 

Oh I absolutely don’t. I only see their headlines here lol

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On 6/11/2025 at 1:38 AM, salty like sodium said:

Given the reply you gave, I'm not sure you got any of what I just said, actually... Since what I'm saying is that female artists are not being treated the same way as male artists, because people have subconscious desires to be harsher and more demanding with women than they are with men. If anything, people are meaner to women and nicer to men, not the other way around. No one said anything about holding back because they are women or anything at all – just that people seem to have much stronger opinions on here about women's behaviours than they do about men's. And you're also twisting the point I made to fit your narrative when what I said is that people are giving female artists a rougher time over the small stuff than they give male artists over the big stuff. I mean R Kelly was on trial for SA in 2002 and still somehow had a career until 2019, and the entire world supported that and let that slide. Men do worse things constantly but are always let off the hook, every single time. Again, just look at Morgan Wallen: he's being rewarded for his problematic behaviour. Andrew Tate is another example. Maybe on GGD people are more balanced in how they criticise but globally the women do get more flack for less than men, especially in the press, and that was the point I was making.

I understand exactly what you're saying, you really don't need to explain such theories to me, I've made them myself. All I'm saying is that they really don't apply on GGD. We hold men accountable here, more than the rest of society does a lot of the time. And we certainly support women a lot more as well. Your point stands as regards general society but I think complaining about the same issue on GGD is somewhat overblown. A lot of us are tired of being told we have some sort of malicious motive for criticising a woman's actions. Actually look at what they're saying and see if it holds weight, without taking gender into the equation. You don't have to agree with it but respect their right to hold their opinion without suggesting they're sexist.

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1 hour ago, StrawberryBlond said:

I understand exactly what you're saying, you really don't need to explain such theories to me, I've made them myself. All I'm saying is that they really don't apply on GGD. We hold men accountable here, more than the rest of society does a lot of the time. And we certainly support women a lot more as well. Your point stands as regards general society but I think complaining about the same issue on GGD is somewhat overblown. A lot of us are tired of being told we have some sort of malicious motive for criticising a woman's actions. Actually look at what they're saying and see if it holds weight, without taking gender into the equation. You don't have to agree with it but respect their right to hold their opinion without suggesting they're sexist.

I think there's been a misunderstanding since I've never called you a misogynist (I don't even know you). I was just replying to your original statement that "artists are gender neutral" and saying that while that may be how you perceive it, the way our global society treats artists is definitely contingent on their gender. So it was just a broader discussion point and at no point was I making a dig at you.