Post by cal on Jul 1, 2023 0:07:31 GMT
This is the theory:
I have a theory and I am very certain that it's correct. This tour was not meant to happen this way. Originally, they had planned to do stadiums back in 2022 (Justin said this in an interview). A list of dates hidden on the Summer Carnival website was found which included a bunch of US stadiums for the summer months. This would be similar to the 2017 festival run. Included on those list of dates was Bottlerock. I believe that for some reason, those plans fell apart and they decided they weren't going to tour last year. However, dates that they couldn't cancel (the festival ones like Bottlerock, Ohana, and ACL) stayed because they had no choice. Because they had to cancel/delay the 2022 run, but they already had a bunch of venues ready, they pushed it back. Unfortunately, I believe that because of the delay their options in new dates were very limited as it was not expected. This is probably why the dates ended up as they are. This made it so they had to announce the tour before the album or else there wouldn't be enough time for ticket sales and all of that. Now, back to the 2022 dates that happened. The theme on those dates seemed to be around balls. At the stages they had the floating balls, the balls came in during Blow Me, and there were balls around the band. The merch for 2022 (which said "2022 summer", so really "2022 summer carnival" with carnival cut off) also had balls on it -- the same balls as the Summer Carnival 2023 branding. The pictures of her used for the 2022 merch are also the same as the ones being used for Summer Carnival. So this branding was meant for 2022, but when they had to go through with the few festivals they probably hastily edited out "Carnival" to it.
Furthermore, I believe she had a few major surgeries towards the end of 2021 which might be the reason for the delay.
I have a theory and I am very certain that it's correct. This tour was not meant to happen this way. Originally, they had planned to do stadiums back in 2022 (Justin said this in an interview). A list of dates hidden on the Summer Carnival website was found which included a bunch of US stadiums for the summer months. This would be similar to the 2017 festival run. Included on those list of dates was Bottlerock. I believe that for some reason, those plans fell apart and they decided they weren't going to tour last year. However, dates that they couldn't cancel (the festival ones like Bottlerock, Ohana, and ACL) stayed because they had no choice. Because they had to cancel/delay the 2022 run, but they already had a bunch of venues ready, they pushed it back. Unfortunately, I believe that because of the delay their options in new dates were very limited as it was not expected. This is probably why the dates ended up as they are. This made it so they had to announce the tour before the album or else there wouldn't be enough time for ticket sales and all of that. Now, back to the 2022 dates that happened. The theme on those dates seemed to be around balls. At the stages they had the floating balls, the balls came in during Blow Me, and there were balls around the band. The merch for 2022 (which said "2022 summer", so really "2022 summer carnival" with carnival cut off) also had balls on it -- the same balls as the Summer Carnival 2023 branding. The pictures of her used for the 2022 merch are also the same as the ones being used for Summer Carnival. So this branding was meant for 2022, but when they had to go through with the few festivals they probably hastily edited out "Carnival" to it.
Furthermore, I believe she had a few major surgeries towards the end of 2021 which might be the reason for the delay.
