As the tour and the whole era came to and end after barely a year, I’ve seen a lot of people being sad about FATM skipping a lot of countries that were part of previous tours, which is of course valid.
But honestly, even though I’ve attended this tour three times (one arena and two summer festivals) I feel like only the first concert was the real tour. The fact that the full stage design with the catwalk, the big screen on top and the beautiful fabric with healing herbs wasnt present for MAJORITY of the tour is just sad. Of course it makes sense that it wasn’t possible during festivals, but the stage design was very lacking. But the fact that the full stage design was in UK + EU (minus one show) and even the US didn’t get the full thing and the worse screens is so silly.
I saw photos of people attending the US leg of the tour that were sitting so high up in the arenas that the bigger screens above the catwalk were obstructing the view of the main stage to the point they couldn’t see the performance in full. I know stage design isn’t easy and there are technical limitations because of the size and height of the venues, but there were 18 shows in EU, 25 shows in the US and 16 summer festivals. The full stage was present for 17 shows from. That’s not even 29%, not even one third.
I loved the tour and every moment of it but both with the lack of „world” in the „world tour”, the somehow lacking setlist for a lot of people (what’s up with just playing 4 songs from the new album during summer?) and majority of people just not seeing the full everybody scream experience, I hope that the next one will be better and more focused on everyone enjoying every aspect of it, not just some lucky people