Taylor Swift makes her way across the U.S again with her 2023 “Eras Tour, but only a lucky few will be able to see her.

Millions of people have clawed their way to get tickets to see the pop sensation live, including senior Morgan Miller, who secured tickets to see the concert twice.

“I feel like she’s the most amazing person on the planet and I just love her so much,” Miller said. “She is just an incredible songwriter.”

Buying tickets for Swift’s previous concerts proved difficult, but this tour caused  Ticketmaster website to shut down because of the surplus of people trying to buy tickets online. 

“My friend Annie stayed home from a whole day of school to get the tickets.” Miller said.

More than 2.4 million tickets were sold between the presale releases and the regular releases. The tour runs through Aug. 5. 

A number of people wanting to buy tickets couldn’t because of the prices, sellouts or website shutdowns. 

In the midst of the ticket chaos, Swift reacted on her Instagram about the TicketMaster shut down.

“It’s truly amazing that 2.4 million tickets were sold, but it really pisses me off that a lot of (people) feel like they went through several bear attacks to get them,” she posted on Instagram

Ticket horror stories abound. The prices of the tickets ranged from hundreds of dollars for “nosebleeds” to the thousands for seats closer to the stage and the floor. 

“ I had a terrible time getting tickets on Ticketmaster,” senior Peyton Mallard said. “ I was prepared on the website at 9 p.m.; my card was pre-saved under my TicketMaster account so I could have a quick checkout process. The queue started at 9:30 p.m. and the queue didn’t move for about four to five hours, which led me to miss school in attempt to get the tickets.” 

After hours of waiting and finally reaching the point of checkout, the roadblocks just didn’t stop.

“By the time I made it to where I could actually purchase a ticket, Ticketmaster wouldn’t let me because the website told me I wasn’t logged into my account, so after five hours, I was left ticketless,” Mallard said.

She was only able to buy tickets because she had a Capital One card she was able to use for presale tickets.

“The Capital One presale was a breeze compared to the specially selected presale,” Mallard said. “I was able to get three lower bowl seats. They were about $500 each.” 

After her experience, Mallard has advice for anyone who will buy tickets for big name artists in the future. 

“(Don’t) be picky about where the seats are because having no ticket is worse than having a ‘bad” ticket.’” Mallard said. 

People also were able to buy several tickets for different stadiums.

“I got six tickets for Dallas due to the fact that Dallas was the only stadium to use SeatGeek and the software did not crash unlike TicketMaster,” sophomore Isabella Hickey said. “I had a great time at the concert and feel like the money and time to get the tickets was well worth it.”

Some websites were easier to use than others.

“However, the experience getting Houston tickets was a different experience,” Hickey said. “Houston stadium was using TicketMaster and on the day of getting the tickets the software crashed completely and I was in the waiting room for over eight hours.”

The seats often sold out quickly.

“This happened over 50 times, so I did not get the tickets,” Hickey said. “However a couple weeks later it was announced that Taylor Nation, Taylor Swift’s company, would send out emails to certain people to give them another chance to buy tickets as a way to help the situation.” 

Buying the tickets from Swift’s actual website was a different concept than buying them somewhere else.

“You had to select how much money you were willing to spend  on each ticket; you were only allowed to buy two,” Hickey said. “I was then told that I was (in the) not pick the ticket program, which would just use the (price) range I picked and then (they) would assign me a seat that I had no control over. So I was essentially picking blind.”

Hickey will able to see Swift in concert twice.

“I am very excited for the Houston show,” Hickey said. “If all you can afford is nosebleeds, that’s OK. The show is the same, and every single time I’ve seen her, it feels so close and personal no matter where I’ve sat.”