WATCH: Singapore brokered a deal with Taylor Swift, so she wouldn’t take the Eras Tour to other Southeast Asian countries.

Taylor Swift kicked off her six-night, sold-out The Eras Tour stopover in Singapore on Saturday.

It’s the only place in Southeast Asia where she will perform due to an exclusivity deal.

A Philippines lawmaker criticized the move, saying it “isn’t what good neighbors do.”Salceda noted that while the grants significantly boosted Singapore’s economy, “it was at the expense of neighboring countries, which could not attract their own foreign concertgoers, and whose fans had to go to Singapore.”

He added that the Philippines should not “just let things like these pass.”

The Grammy Award-winning artist, who recently announced that shehile speaking at the iBusiness Forum 2024 in Bangkok in February, Srettha Thavisin said promoter AEG informed him of the agreement after he enquired why the world tour would not be stopping in his home country. Swift has never performed in Thailand, although she was scheduled to perform there in 2014, but ended up