Taylor Swift Forced to Cancel Shows Due To Illness

By AOL Music Editors Posted Jul 6th 2011 07:30PM

It's a disappointing day for Taylor Swift fans. The teen queen was forced to cancel the next three shows on her Speak Now World Tour, slotted for this weekend. The Friday evening show in Charlotte, North Carolina and both Saturday and Sunday stints in Atlanta, Georgia are postponed until the Fall.

The singer-songwriter is battling bronchitis, and her physician has advised her to cancel her upcoming performances in order to rest.

"It breaks my heart to miss out on this weekend's shows with my friends in Charlotte and Atlanta," Swift says. "I would never cancel if I thought I was physically able to perform these shows. I am so sorry to the fans, but I look forward to seeing you when we come back through your towns, which we will do."

The Charlotte stop has been rescheduled for November 16, while the Atlanta shows will be moved to October 1 & 2. Taylor will resume her performance schedule July 14 in Montreal, Canada.

Last week, the 21-year-old had to postpone her her July 2 stop in Louisville, Ky. for the same reason. The show, which has been moved to October 11, marked the first time ever in her career that the 'Mean' singer has had to cancel.

"Louisville, I so sorry to have to postpone this show to Oct. 11," Swift posted on her Twitter page. "This is my first time having to do this. I'm so, so sorry."

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Wednesday 06 July

By George R. Helm

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Not due to illness, due to she can't sing!

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By OfAlaska

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Right...so she's the most downloaded artist in history, has the best selling albums of the first decade of this century, (Although she was ten at the start of it) the youngest person ever honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame,and has people like Neil Young saying she's the best of her generation. I've seen her live, and she was great, and I've been going to concerts since the '60's. Throw out Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash on the male side while you're at it, Georgie boy. Millions of young women and girls around this world, the best of them in fact, would squat to piss on your grave, but Taylor would never let them. You're the MEAN,and she's not. She will bury you with her talent and goodness anyway.

By Simzee

Gee, she can not go her job with broncitis? AAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWW poor think. Many people go to work sicker than this. And they serve you food.

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By Frances

Right on!.....I so curious why people think she can sing???....She must have a great agent!

By Gwen

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Oh Taylor CAN sing. Saw her in Greensboro last week and she was great! Ticketholders to the postponed shows be patient! It will be worth the wait!

By KR

Depends what you call singing.

By ashley

feel better taylor

By Rita

Teen queen? Isn't she 21 or 22?

she's 21

By hello kitty

Is she sure it isn't stage fright because those areas' women tend to actually have boobs?

By terri

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That sentence doesnt even make sense.

By Barb

Taylor has really gotten stuck on herself. At CMA, they kept the sound system adjusted so you could not hear that she could not sing. After every song she would strick a pose with a smug, "look at me" face. It was just not enjoyable to watch her on stage.

By kathy

All those lucky people who get their money back, that girl is the worse singer, I can't hold a tune and neither can she, very weak. Is it may imagination or does she look like a lizard.?

By the_fool

She could write a song about it. It could go something like:
I'm not feeling well,
I might ring a bell,
I wish I was well,
really want to yell,
it feels like I fell,
got a lot to tell.

But for it to be a TRUE Taylor Tune it would have to go on and on and on about some idiotic boyfriend who did her wrong.

By just me

you forgot,,,

"and I when I sing,
I sound like hell"

she soooooooo sucksssssssssssss

By crissy

Get well Taylor we ♥ you:):)

By mo

there were rumors floating around that she was pregnant and starting to show then it was revealed that she had just eaten an entire hamburger in one sitting prior to the photo in question being taken

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