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Becoming the 1st artist to ever play 3 AAMI Park concerts, @taylorswift13 has locked in a 3rd + final Melbourne show! http://t.co/r4eThZUlcj
@frontiertouring
Becoming the 1st artist to ever play 3 AAMI Park concerts, @taylorswift13 has locked in a 3rd + final Melbourne show! http://t.co/r4eThZUlcj
On sale July 23rd!
Queen!
I was just thinking yesterday that she should add more dates in Australia
If felt smaller than the red tour (except for the ANZ Stadium of course)
I don't know if this has been mentioned but you think Taylor will release a DVD of this tour including ALL the guests performances??? That would SMASH!
Then there's Taylor Swift. "I'm putting tickets on sale on Mars for Taylor, because buildings on Earth are not big enough," quips Louis Messina, president of TMG/AEG. The first 15 North American concerts headlined by Swift have grossed nearly $60 million, with 503,039 tickets sold through July 14. That's an average nightly take of almost $4 million and average attendance of 33,535.
I’ve only been to a handful of concerts in my life, and most of those have been small venues with an adult demographic. Singer song writers, moody, intellectual. The crowds mostly stayed seated.
You can imagine, then, how overwhelming was the spectacle of Taylor Swift at Soldier Field last night. Part of the 1989 World Tour, Swift performed to a packed crowd, about 55,000 people, give or take a thousand.
She spent quite a bit of time on the stage by herself with a guitar or keyboard and no dancers. I had to wonder, looking at her face on the huge jumbotron if she was fazed by the enormity of the crowd, by our noise and presence. There’s a fine line between fans adoring you and fans devouring you.
No matter, she commanded the space, inhabited its size and power with her own outsized presence. She’s an old hand at this job, and she made it look easy.
I was struck mostly by two things last night: her gratitude and her commitment to a clear message.
I loved what she did with the gratitude, too. She thanked us for filling the seats, selling out the concert and demanding a second one. But she transformed her obvious popularity and fandom into a testament to our shared love of music.
The emotions are big. Gigantic, in fact, when you’re feeling them along with 55,000 other people. Watching and feeling her diehard fans listening to “15,” from her 2008 “Fearless” album was a sort of pop culture religious moment. So many girls and young women, swaying, singing every single word.
And the words are about perspective and empowerment
Swift manages to tell girls that they don’t need boys in order to succeed while at the same time loving romance. She tells girls to love themselves and to stand up for each other. She shows, and doesn’t just tell, with videos of her friends speaking about the importance of friendship. Her generosity with other women is her calling card. Every girl and woman in that stadium could imagine being friends with Taylor Swift.
She’s just dynamite. She’s gorgeous and a dork and resilient and vulnerable and she’s all about the music. Maybe she didn’t know it at 15. But she damn well knows it now. She is enough in this moment. And so are we.
Great Chicago concert review from The Early Registration.
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Review: Taylor Swift Lights Up Chicago’s Soldier Field with Memorable Performance
The only problem? As word-of-mouth spreads and fans who are ready to see Taylor for their second, third, or fourth time are joined by those who heard of Swift’s epic performances from a friend and want to see first hand, there won’t be enough room and Soldier Field may need to prepare to book a third night for the next time Swift comes to the Windy City. Having just experienced my first Taylor Swift concert, I am certain that it won’t be my last, as the ‘Bad Blood’ singer puts on a tour that matches her massive record sales, wide influence, and her elite status as a modern pop icon.
In the entirety of her nearly 20-song setlist, Swift performed her entire 1989 album, a full-length project that has received a lot of critical acclaim and massive commercial success.
Don’t be fooled by the tour’s name, while Swift performed the entirety of her latest album, she does not forget her country roots and her transition from her self-titled debut album to her new pop sound. Taylor sprinkled in a number of fan favorites from her 2008 album Fearless, such as ‘Love Story’ and an intimate acoustic performance where Swift brought out her guitar for ‘Mean’, a song which she performed for the first time on the 1989 World Tour. And despite her domination on the radio, fans did not just hear studio version replicas of her hits, rather Swift performed various live re-works of some of her biggest tracks. Another highlight of her performance, beyond the music itself, was all the production that clearly went into this tour. Various costume changes with video greetings from some of Swift’s famous and closest friends to keep the crowd occupied, pyrotechnics, fireworks and LED wristbands that created for a beautiful light show at Soldier Field, talent dancers to back up Taylor’s spotlight, and of course adding to her publicized and impressive list of surprise guests with a duet performance with country music’s Sam Hunt. All of the above made the night a stand out, leaving every T-Swift fan happy, and showing why Taylor is killing it right now. She has the voice that can sell millions, a voice that can even get Apple to change its compensation policies. She has the songwriting skills to make her boyfriends think twice before they wrong her. And now I can vouch first-hand that she has the stage presence and ability to create for a memorable live performance.
