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Thais Beg Taylor Swift to Make Up for 2014 Post-Coup Cancellation
- American superstar asked to try again as Thai vote opens door
- Thai politician invites singer, declares himself a ‘Swiftie’
Taylor Swift
Photographer: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images
The front-runner to become Thailand’s next prime minister has declared himself a “Swiftie,” and asked Taylor Swift to bring her tour to the country almost a decade after the American superstar canceled a concert in the wake of a military coup.
Swift’s scrapped Bangkok show in 2014 — shortly after a junta seized power — remains a sour subject among her Thai fans, many of whom live in the Thai capital where Pita Limjaroenrat’s Move Forward Party won nearly all House of Representatives seats in the May 14 national election.