‘For us that would have been meeting Elvis when we were boys,’ enthused Tim. ‘What they did was the same as walking into a room with Elvis.’
Which is when I gave voice to the thought that feels so much like pop sacrilege I hardly want to repeat it here. No, meeting Taylor Swift was not like meeting Elvis at all. It was much, much bigger than that.
Is this the longest applause she's gotten in her whole career?
Cleveland >>>>> *
During the Fearless tour, while she was walking back to the main stage, the crowd went nuts. When she hit the stage, the crowd erupted in screams and cheers and then started to chant her name. Since that was the days before everyone had smartphones, there aren't a lot of videos of it. These are the only two I could find, and neither includes the whole thing. Both start after she already got back to the stage.
No, it is more that for an artist to bridge the gap between a little girl of seven and her 48-year-old father is simply extraordinary in an era where music audiences have never been more atomised.
