COMMENT | This past week, all the armchair pundits - including tone-deaf and musically untalented politicians - have given their two sen (it’s worth less than that once you add inflation and their ignorance) about the virtues of Swiftonomics.

If you are late for the train, let me summarise it for you: pop superstar Taylor Swift’s multiple mega concerts in Singapore in the past week have been lamented as a “lost opportunity” for Malaysia’s dire economics.

Let me set it straight as a well-travelled and road-weary troubadour: she would never have come here in the first place.