ARE U READY!!! The next stop of The Eras Tour by Taylor Swift is the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland on June 28-30, with a seating capacity of 50,000+. She will be performing for 3 nights at this venue.

Taylor Swift: the billion dollar woman has an almost supernatural hold on her fans
As the Swift Mothership lands in Dublin next weekend for three nights at the Aviva Stadium, we look at the extraordinary spell the music deity has cast on her fans and how she has become so much more than a mere pop star

Will the sound of 155,000 Swifties thronging the Aviva Stadium next weekend trigger a mini earthquake in Dublin 4? Will the Irish economy do cartwheels as fan buying power puts boosters under the city’s businesses? Will there be enough friendship bracelets to go round . . . ?

These are the burning questions that seismologists, bean counters and shiny bead hawkers will be asking as the Taylor Swift Mothership finally lands in Dublin on her record-breaking, 152-date Eras Tour.

She will be the first act ever to complete a triple whammy at the 80,000-capacity venue on what is already a busy weekend in Dublin. Among the events also taking place are the Pride Festival, concerts in Fairview Park, and two GAA Quarter Finals at Croke Park but it seems certain that pop’s golden girl will attract the most attention.

These are Swift’s first Irish shows since she played two nights in Croke Park in 2018 and it will be quite a pilgrimage for the faithful. But this time something is different – and it’s not just the fact that we now know that she is a Derry girl.

When Swift last played Ireland over two nights in Croke Park in 2018 on her Reputation tour, she was already an established megastar with an almost supernatural hold on her scarily loyal fanbase.

Six years later and she has now transcended mere pop stardom to become some kind of universal touchstone, a barometer of both art and economics. Such is the cultural capital of Taylor Swift that American universities offer learned courses on her work, economists parse the significance of Swiftonomics, and a grateful music industry lays down at her altar.

Meet Ireland’s biggest Swiftie

The 34-year-old from West Reading, Pennsylvania – with a fondness for private jets and herding cats – has become the biggest and almost too perfect pop star of the era.

You’ll often hear that the key to her success is relatability. Tay Tay’s trick is appearing to share everything with her fans in her autobiographical songs and breathless social media posts while also exercising an iron grip on her career and privacy. She has maintained a certain otherworldly unknowability.