Nikki Glaser was one of tens of thousands of Swift fans who arrived in Vienna this week to find out that the singer's Eras Tour had been canceled due to an attempted terrorist attack. Swift's three concerts in the Austrian capital were canceled Tuesday morning after three teenagers were arrested in connection with an ISIS-linked terror plot against her upcoming concerts.
“I was so disappointed,” Glaser says of finding out the concert was canceled when she boarded her flight to Vienna on Thursday morning. But unlike many other fans who traveled to see the singer, Glaser has seen the Eras Tour concert 17 times, so despite the disappointment, she says, “No one should really feel sorry for me.”
“I follow Taylor on tour as much as I follow myself on tour,” Glaser says. diverse “While I was in her hotel room in Vienna, I was looking for her place and going there. It's my favorite thing to do, I'm kind of addicted to it. So I was very sad.”
Jokes aside, Glaser was very grateful that no one was hurt and agreed that canceling the show was the right move. “I didn’t even think about my safety once,” she said. “I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to see Taylor! It was a very selfish thought. Obviously, I’m very happy that everyone is safe and that she made the right decision.”
Like many fans who traveled to Austria for the concert this week, things got worse with constant plane diversions, delays and flight cancellations. “I was with my friend and my sister and her husband, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, the worst thing ever happened,’ and they said, ‘Our flight got cancelled?’ and I was like, ‘Worse than that.’”
Photos from Nikki Glaser's Instagram account taken while singing in solidarity with her Swift bandmates in Vienna.
Now, the European city is filled with Swift fans who have taken over several city centers to sing Swift songs — without the pop star herself. Glaser attended one of the sing-alongs on Thursday, which she said was “really nice” and plans to attend more this weekend, but of course “it wasn’t the same.”
“Everyone was singing at different times and I said, ‘We need Taylor here to keep the beat!’”
Glaser even considered doing a comedy show for a crowd in Vienna but the plans fell through, but she says she doesn't have “any Taylor Swift material” because “I don't have a sense of humor about Taylor Swift, I'm very honest about her.”
Fortunately, her tour outfit, which she's been planning for weeks, won't go to waste: “I'm just going to tour the city on a double-decker bus with the 'Tortured Poets' necklace on my vest and skirt,” she says. “I have to make the most of it.”
