Pop superstar Taylor Swift more promoting US politics than her Aussie tour

TAYLOR Swift was staying undercover for her Sydney arrival last night, the pop star using an umbrella to deny snappers a shot of her hopping off her private jet at Sydney Airport. She’s also shunning media interviews and hiding from fans — as her Aussie concerts fail to sell out.

TAYLOR Swift was staying undercover for her Sydney arrival last night, the pop star using an umbrella to deny snappers a shot of her hopping off her private jet at Sydney Airport.

It follows bad blood between Swift and her fans with the star shunning interviews and keeping social media to a minimum during her Australian tour and getting empty seats in return.

Taylor Swift arriving in Sydney on Thursday night under the protection of her umbrella. Picture: Diimex

With tickets to her Sydney show at ANZ Stadium tonight still available in all price categories, the pop superstar, who used to sell out stadiums within minutes, has officially lost her reputation for being a sellout stadium singer.

Taylor Swift has shunned media interviews and hid from fans as she tours Australia. Picture: Don Arnold/TAS18/Getty Images

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Swift’s 1989 world tour ended in Melbourne in December 2015 — she played to just over 98,000 fans over three sold out shows at AAMI Park. At the time promoters said Swift could have sold out three more shows at the venue if time permitted.

But there were still seats available when she played to 53,000 fans at Marvel Stadium last Friday night, with seats also going begging for tonight’s Sydney concert and Tuesday’s Brisbane show.

She has been exploring Australia’s nature. Picture: Instagram/@taylorswift

The US superstar has only posted onto social media a few times. Picture: Instagram/@taylorswift

The 28-year-old global singing superstar is in the middle of an 18-day tour of Australia, but unless you heard the chorus of fans complaining about her whereabouts, music lovers wouldn’t even know she was here.

While the prolific social media user has so far kept her Instagram posts about her Aussie tour to a minimum, she’s had plenty of time to urge her American followers to vote in the US midterm election.

Just yesterday she urged voters in her home state to Tennessee to vote for Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen. Picture: Instagram/@taylorswift

It’s clear Swift is no fan of Donald Trump. Picture: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

Swift broke her self-imposed political silence early last month to publicly endorsing two Democrats, thereby making her anti-Trump stance clear.

Now she’s spending her Australian sojourn sharing numerous photos of her friends hitting the polling stations and urging voters in her home state to Tennessee to vote for Democratic candidate Phil Bredesen.

But all that time talking about US politics has left her Aussie fans feeling forgotten.

Despite the considerable amount of downtime between her four shows, there have been no sightings of the singer outside of her shows while Down Under and she has refused all media requests for interviews.

The Courier Mail reported today a test cricket great and other sporting heroes had to legally promise not to take a photo of the arena during a charity event — prior to Swift’s concert. Picture: Supplied/Lisa Oliver

Swift has only shared a post of herself after her Perth show and a series of vague pictures in a forest since she kicked off her tour in Perth on October 19.

The singer gave no hint of where in the country the photos were taken, keeping the location as vague as possible by geotagging the photo “Australia”.

Swift has also turned her comments off on Instagram, meaning fans can’t interact and speculate about where she could be in the comments section of her photos.

Swift will perform tonight before rounding out her Australia tour in Brisbane on Tuesday November 6.