US officials familiar with the investigation say Austrian law enforcement are still looking for an additional individual, or individuals, who may have knowledge of the alleged plot, according to Sky News' US partner, NBC News.
      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        9·
        3 months ago

        there are other reasons but they literally wouldn’t matter if she wasn’t popular.

        so yeah, basically.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        English
        82·
        3 months ago

        she’s very popular with women, too. that’s a huge sin that gets you a lot of disproportionate hate.

    • You@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      It’s not really about Taylor Swift. It’s what she stands for and the fact that targeting a mostly young and female audience as potential victims will bring the biggest media attention world wide. Terrorists in general want to spread fear to at least disrupt societies that don’t fulfill their ideas of whatever believe system they follow.

      It’s been the same with the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
      53·
      3 months ago

      Her song lyrics are fairly shallow and whingy, and she interrupts enjoyable tunes with unpleasant talking or worse tunes, but that’s just music critique. It’s obviously no excuse to resort to terrorism.