BAD BLOOD: Why Taylor Swift decided NOT to do a Perth show

Taylor Swift made the final call on which cities to visit on her Australian tour, it has been claimed.

The US superstar’s shortlist emerged with no Perth show yet again in a second wave of tour dates for The Eras tour.

WA fans were left heartbroken a second time yesterday morning after additional dates were added to her show after Perth missed the first round.

But it was a disappointment yet again. Instead Swift handed Sydney and Melbourne fans an extra show each citing ‘unprecedented demand’ — despite already having five stadium shows between them in February.

Before the announcement organisers had insisted there simply wasn’t enough time to sandwich in a Perth show during her two-week stint in Australia.

Tour sources revealed the call to skip Perth allegedly landed with the star herself.

“With big tours like this, the directive would come from the artist,” a top touring source told The West.

“Taylor would have said, ‘I only have time to do two cities. I don’t have time to go around the country’. It’s a directive that comes from the artist.”

Others close to the star had previously insisted it was impossible for Swift to squeeze in a WA trip due to “global dates and production”. Swift is coming from Japan and then heading to Singapore straight after.

ASM Global Asia Pacific chairman Harvey Lister added: “There just wasn’t time to keep leapfrogging from city to city.”

“So the decision was taken to play in Sydney and Melbourne where the stadiums can take about 100,000 [attendees].”