Taylor Swift’s Singapore show will be her only South-East Asia stop, revealing how super concerts can get political

Tens of thousands of Swifties are flying into Singapore over the next week because of a deal the city-state government struck to be the only South-East Asia country to host Taylor Swift.

Fresh off her record-breaking seven-night tour in Melbourne and Sydney, the pop queen is doing six sold-out shows at Singapore’s national stadium.

It will match the run that British rock group Coldplay did at the same venue in January. 

But the singer-songwriter’s appeal is so great that the taxpayers of Singapore are paying to ensure she only plays there,…