Singapore singles desperate to see Taylor Swift are offering themselves as dates to UOB cardholders

A Singaporean bank’s cardholders have exclusive access to presales for tickets, which prompted some bachelors to jokingly search for dates who happen to be cardholders

More than 300,000 fans are expected to attend Taylor Swift’s concerts in Singapore in March 2024

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Some people in Asia are going to great lengths to see Taylor Swift. Photo: AP

Published: 7:00am, 6 Jul 2023Updated: 2:32pm, 7 Jul 2023

Eligible bachelors want to score tickets to Taylor Swift’s Singapore concert so badly, they’re posting their profiles on Twitter, hoping to land a date who checks one key criterion: they must own a United Overeas Bank (UOB) credit card.

UOB cardholders on Wednesday began having exclusive access to a presale for tickets to Swift’s concerts, which will be held next year in the city state from March 2 to March 9.

The general public will not have access until two days later.

Keen to beat the rush for tickets, enterprising Swifties jokingly started to tweet out their dating profiles in search of romantic partners who also happened to be cardholders.

In a tweet on June 23 that’s been viewed over 2.3 million times, @jameswindborne, a self-professed Swift-fan, described himself as a 30-year-old pilot and architect who “can afford to live in this economy”.

His criteria for a partner: a “male/female” who lives in Singapore or Japan and is a “UOB Credit/Debit cardholder.”

Dozens of other Taylor Swift fans are racking up thousands of likes with tweets in the same format.