‘I don’t have time’: Disappointing reason Taylor Swift chose not to tour all of Australia

An insider has revealed the real reason Taylor Swift is only coming to Sydney and Melbourne, stating the singer is behind the decision.

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, Perth Now reports.

WA fans were left heartbroken a second time on Thursday 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.

An insider has revealed why Tay Swift isn’t touring all of Australia. Picture: Visual China Group via Getty Images

It’s understood the decision could have been made by Swift herself. Picture: John Shearer/TAS23/Getty Images

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 Australian.

“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].”

It comes as thousands of fans waited hours to get their hands on tickets both online and in person. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

But despite the extra attention given to New South Wales and Victoria this week, the insider added: “It’s not like the tour was set up to snub any city.”

The news was a fresh blow to Perth fans, who have been relegated to fork out four figures to travel over east to see their idol.

Many prepared to do so faced further misery waiting in an online queue of 800,000 for hours this week to land Sydney and Melbourne tickets.

“The two extra concerts should have been in Brisbane and Perth, not the same place, not that I would go anyway,” Rick Valenti posted.

The West Australian has reached out to Swift’s spokeswoman for comment.

This article originally appeared on Perth Now and was reproduced with permission