Taylor Swift’s actions were compared to Travis Scott’s in the stampede tragedy last year.

International public opinion is abuzz with the news that a spectator passed away right on the stadium grounds right before Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. The above tragic incident that took place at Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos Stadium (Rio de Janeiro) on the opening night of The Eras Tour in Brazil is creating a wave of outrage on social networks.

According to many sources recorded at the scene shared on Twitter by audiences directly attending The Eras Tour, this audience died due to heat stroke and dehydration. Accordingly, the city of Rio De Janeiro is currently suffering from a heat wave, and the temperature inside the stadium with tens of thousands of people can reach 60 degrees Celsius. The hot temperature combined with the large number of spectators has making the health of attendees not guaranteed.

Not stopping there, the organizers banned spectators from bringing in water from outside, forcing spectators to buy water inside the stadium at exorbitant prices. Right on the night of the show, Taylor Swift had to stop the stage so her crew could hand out water to the audience when thousands of spectators shouted in unison: “Water, water!”. It all created a scene that could almost be considered a “tragedy”.

It was because of the lack of water combined with the too high temperature that led to the death of the unfortunate spectator mentioned above. Taylor Swift herself cannot avoid being implicated. She wrote a rather long letter and shared it on her Instagram story, then continued to perform the concert as usual.

Taylor Swift’s condolence letter to the deceased victim.

Specifically, many comments on Twitter aimed at Taylor Swift, saying that she knew very well that a person had died right before her concert but still allowed the concert to continue. Critics of Taylor Swift said that with such alarmingly hot weather, the singer should have canceled the concert, but she still continued to perform. Many people compare this event to the tragedy of audiences trampling each other at Travis Scott’s show in 2022.

Netizens also heavily criticized and expressed great indignation at the way Nilton Saltos Stadium worked, disregarding the safety of the audience and putting profit above all else. However, there are also many opinions defending that Taylor Swift and her team made great efforts in distributing water to the audience but did not receive the cooperation of the stadium.

– Just like the Travis Scott tragedy, I don’t know if the number of casualties will stop at 1 or not.

– This time, I’m really disappointed with Taylor Swift. She could have canceled the concert and moved it to another date, right?

– Really horrifying, the crowd at the concert was very chaotic.

– Rio is extremely hot these days, and there’s also a lot of jostling and not being able to give out water.

– Take the stadium to court! Unacceptable!