Taylor Swift donates $100,000 to victim of Kansas City Chiefs parade shooting
While in Australia for her Eras Tour, Taylor Swift took the time to contribute to the GoFundMe of a deceased Chiefs fan
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Taylor Swift has shown her support to the Kansas City Chiefs community with a significant donation to the family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, who died in the shooting at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade on Wednesday. Swift contributed $100,000 to a GoFundMe page made in Lopez-Galvan’s honor, leaving a note that read, “Sending my deepest sympathies and condolences in the wake of your devastating loss. With love, Taylor Swift.” Variety confirmed that the donation came from Swift with her representative.
According to CNN, police have determined that the shooting was a result of a personal dispute among “several people.” One adult and two juveniles were arrested; the adult was released, while the juveniles remain in custody but have not yet been charged. 23 people were injured in the shooting; Lopez-Galvan, a wedding and radio DJ, was the only fatality. Her son and two other relatives were among those injured, per Variety. With Swift’s donation and over a thousand others, the family was able to surpass their $75,000 goal and raise more than $200,000 in just 16 hours.
While Swift was present for the Super Bowl to see her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, take home the trophy, she was not in attendance for the victory parade. The singer is currently in Australia for her Eras Tour, where she performed her biggest show ever to a crowd of 96,000 people at MCG Stadium in Melbourne. “This is the biggest show that we have done on this tour or any tour I have ever done,” Swift said onstage (per People). “That’s the version you get of me tonight, the version that’s completely starstruck by the fact that so many of you wanted to hang out with us on a Friday night in Melbourne.”
The four-time Album of the Year Grammy winner is gearing up to release her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department. At her Melbourne show, she announced a new vinyl variant with an exclusive bonus track (“The Bolter”). “It kind of reminded me why songwriting is something that actually gets me through my life,” Swift told her fans (per a viral video circulating on social media). “And I’ve never had an album where I needed songwriting more than I needed it on Tortured Poets.” The new record comes out on April 19.
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That’s awfully big of her considering SHE ORCHERTATED THIS FALSE FLAG ATTACK AS PART OF A DEEP STATE CONSPIRACY TO EMBARASS AMERICA AND NEUTER OUR BOYSI can’t believe I have to add this but “/s”
This is very kind. She appears to be a good person. Hopefully there won’t be an expose about her in the future where she’s terrible to her employees. And, not a knock, it’s funny that a 100 grand to her is probably like a nickel to everyone else. She has enough money that she could be like Bezos’ ex and really fund good causes if she chose to; she seems to have the same giving spirit.
She’s a billionaire. This shouldn’t even be a headline.
The fuck you do to help the world today besides fart?
This dude’s head is so far up his ass it’s kind of you to believe he even could fart…
The Billionaire Defense Squad is working overtime today, huh.
Well today they mix with the Swifties, who are basically a cult at this point. Its sad watching them defend their gods
Oh goody. Now there are two of them to suck each other’s balls and tell themselves they are right about everything.
You must really loathe the absolute shit out of yourself.
Did you donate anything at all?
I’m not a billionaire.
Taylor Swift doesn’t care about you dude
Don’t worry, it’s enough for him just to feel like he’s on the same side as the rich and powerful.
When a celebrity fucks up, we hear about it instantly and love to gloat. But when they do good, they get shit on for that too.
Arguing against a point no one is making is… a choice.Ask TheUnnumberedOne how much Swift would need to give me to prove you wrong, since he seems to be an expert in these things.
If I had a billion dollars, you can bet your ass I’d be doing quite a fucking bit.
Answer J Wilson’s question. What number makes you happy? Since you are Supreme Vetter Of All.
Good God. It’s not that she didn’t give this victim enough money; it’s that she doesn’t spend nearly enough on making a difference for people who need it. Where on earth does this defensiveness come from? I’m genuinely curious.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/taylor-swifts-charity-donations-gifts-timeline/100k-donation-chiefs-parade-shooting-victim/Some highlights:
$1 million for Tennessee tornado relief (once in 2023/once in 2020)
$100,000 bonuses for truck drivers and other crew on her tour
Donations to food banks in every city she tours
Has completely funded various (and seemingly random) GoFundMes for families affected by COVID.
$1 million for Louisana flood relief
$70,000 in books to her hometown library.My defensiveness is nothing more than this. Each and every time any celebrity donates anything, there is always some jackholefuckassclowndick who says, “EhwhynotMOHR!”And I grow weary of it. Just be happy. I’m fucking happy. Overjoyed. Fuck you.
Sounds like you don’t have much of a systemic understanding of the way money works, and look to exorcise any second-hand discomfort you feel when those cracks are exposed by smoothing them over. With all that’s wrong in the world, I don’t see how you could possibly have any bitterness reserved for people who don’t trust the rich.
Sounds like you’re one of those people who spend their day eating Cheetos, getting high and masturbating and wondering why you aren’t rich and hating people who are.
I work my ass off every day and make six figures. However, I understand that if your entire worldview is built on the idea that everyone who thinks differently is an ineffectual chud, you wouldn’t be able to reconcile the two no matter what I say to you.
You are pathetic.
AOC isn’t going to fuck you
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-11-28/taylor-swift-meets-family-of-deceased-fan-ahead-of-final-brazil-show
Easy to say when you don’t have a Billion dollars.
You’re right; if I’d been enough of a conniving, evil bastard to get there, I probably wouldn’t help anyone that didn’t boost my public image, either. Thank god for that.
Goddamn you people are pathetic.How about you tell is what the right number to give is in this situation and folks can vet your proposal.
“You people” Who? People who understand how money and power work? You can take your elitist bullshit and stick it right back where it came from.
lol. You’re the real People’s Champion, anonymous internet weirdo.
It was a weird hill to die on, but TheUnumberedOne did it anyway.
I didn’t realize having an opinion on the internet meant dying on a hill, nor that “Billionaires are bad” is a poor choice even were I to take it to that extreme.
There are lots of millionaires and billionaires that never help anyone. Giving her a headline on the AVClub isn’t hurting anyone.
What a flimsy ethical foundation on which to judge people’s actions. Celebrating celebrities when they hand out such pittances is exactly why they feel it’s enough.
Well, she did also give each of her US drivers working on her Eras Tour bonuses of a $100,000. She didn’t have to do that. I think depending on billionaires and philanthropy to solve problems is a distraction from changing laws and having the government solve systemic crises, but, hey, you can’t say she didn’t change lives with her largesse. That’s nothing to criticize.
Again, I’m not criticizing her for giving people 100k. I’m criticizing journalists for pretending it’s a big deal.
Anything involving the incredibly popular and wildly successful Taylor Swift is treated as a news story because it gets the views/clicks. How many times did sports reporting mention her when she started dating Kelce? How many cutaways to her in the box did the networks do when showing a game? She’s going to get reported on for a while. Just nature of the media biz.
I don’t think I’ve said anything to indicate I don’t understand that. It’s part of the cycle of billionaire-worship – a ritual performed whenever a popular artist gets rich enough. I hate it.
Oh, I didn’t mean to suggest that you didn’t get it. There is billionaire worship in this country, and it’s bad. But I rather have billionaire worship of a creative artist whose work is loved by millions than a tech/business billionaire who does objectively shitty things and harms people. Celebrating someone like Swift I don’t see the downside of.
And you shouldn’t be commenting on it.
You have no idea what causes she funds.
Since your comment is the only one worth truly discussing…Swift could be doing hundreds of smaller acts of kindness that never see the light of day, and yet she’ll still get ripped apart for having piles of money and not calling press conferences or releasing photos/statements about her deeds. Much like the political debate about her views, people don’t seem satisfied that she makes resources available for people to vote rather than place herself in the bullseyes of crazies because she endorses a candidate. (She has made her views known on specific topics and absolutely has made her overall view on Trump known.)But AVCLUB and others need the clicks from co-opting Swift’s name and reputation to gain revenue. They have no idea how she feels and just wish to foist their own desires onto her. Not really familiar with her music, but she seems to want to do good when possible and live a “normal” life, when people let her.
A fan of her straight up died of heat exhaustion in Brazil last year during one of her shows, many others fell ill as well, and she didn’t give the family so much as a handshake.I guess it’s different when it’s Americans affected.
How does a personal dispute result in 23 other people being shot? Like, at what point do people just stop and think, hey maybe we should take this somewhere else?People are fucking terrible.
Some lizard-brain reaction of “I’ll show them whose ego is least fragile!” will be the thing that governs their behavior. And once your in for a penny, there’s a whole crowd of people that probably think they’re better than you too. Top-tier decision making by our armed and therefore inherently polite society.
This is the cause of most homicides in KC. Like literally, “arguments” is the category. People get into fights in crowds or parking lots, one or more of them has a gun, shit like this happens.I don’t have a lot of specific ideas on gun control but this country needs to have at most 1% of the guns it does.
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