Glowing concert review from Metlife Day 1 in Rolling Stone
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Welcome to New York! Ish! Taylor Swift brought it all back home last night, or at least to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, for her 1989 Tour. Never one to do things halfway, Swift has made this a pop show — or rather the pop show, as far as 2015 is concerned. The whole night was a two-hour pop-blitz spectacle, where the songs retain all the teardrops-on-my-guitar intimacy of her early days, except blown up into massive electro-warrior emotional avalanches pushing the can't-even-ometer into the red. This show had it all: life lessons ("You are not the opinion of someone who doesn't know you!"), synth-disco raves, acoustic ballads, explosions, video interviews with her cats, sparkle-intensive costume changes, a Weeknd duet and oh yeah, the U.S. Women's Soccer Team parading through the crowd to "Style" in front of 60,000 screaming fans. That kind of night.
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It all ended with "Shake It Off," with fireworks, confetti and dancing boys in purple Angus Young schoolboy outfits. All night, the Eighties concept took many different forms — from the pre-show mix tape (Human League, Toto, Fine Young Cannibals and my girl Tiffany) to the beats. But mostly, it's in the way she embodies the Eighties ideal of a pop star — Madonna, Prince, Bruce — as an auteur who makes every album, every tour something new. Honestly, if Taylor Swift had just done the Red tour all over again, plugging in the new songs with some greatest hits, that would have been fine with absolutely everyone. Taking the easy way would have been 100 percent good enough. It just wasn't what she wanted to do. Instead, she wanted to push a little harder and make a gloriously epic pop mess like this. What a night.
Worth It is fantastic. Much better than that Weeknd song. I don't see the problem.
She should just bring Camila up though, the others don't seem relevant.
Worth It is fantastic. Much better than that Weeknd song. I don't see the problem.
She should just bring Camila up though, the others don't seem relevant.
I agree
worth it is better than whatever that weekend song is and talking about relevancy, queen Camila>>> idek others name.
Worth It is fantastic. Much better than that Weeknd song. I don't see the problem.
She should just bring Camila up though, the others don't seem relevant.
I actually like 5H, we were (at least I was) saying that because JakeKill's show is today and he didn't want 5H performing and then we got that rumor the same date he's attending so it was funny
Mxdkf remember when the girls thought Wonderland won? Look which song is higher on iTunes, may be the 4th single, and is actually performed on tour (full production)
Great idea
at this point, I wouldnt mind which one gets released first because both songs are flawless
Same, I actually love both songs and need them to get released and shine, no matter which one goes first. Hopefully they both get actual videos and not tour video
Mxdkf remember when the girls thought Wonderland won? Look which song is higher on iTunes, may be the 4th single, and is actually performed on tour (full production)
I never got why Wonderland was so overrated on here, I actually like every single song on the album but Wonderland is one of my least favorites
