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Posted: 10:01 am PST, February 17, 2024
It’s one thing to be dazzled by Taylor Swift. It’s another thing for the world’s biggest pop star to be dazzled. It happened on the first night of his Eras Tour in Melbourne, Australia, and he let the crowd know it.
He midnight The singer was almost speechless while performing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where 96,000 people packed the famous venue that first opened its doors in 1853. It’s the largest crowd Swift has ever performed in front of, and she was well aware of it.
“If it seems like I’m losing my mind over the fact that there are 96,000 people here tonight… that’s because it’s true,” he told the boisterous crowd. through Deadline. “This is the biggest show we’ve ever done. I’m completely blown away by the fact that so many people wanted to hang out with us on a Friday night in Melbourne!”
The Sydney Morning Herald, the oldest (1831) and most read newspaper in the country, offered a five-star review for Swift’s opening night performance. The outlet also interviewed fans and parents who accompanied her children at the concert, and the parents themselves were stunned by Swift’s incomparable ability to perform with such energy throughout the night, a notion shared by many in the States.
“I don’t know where he gets his energy from,” the father of a 12-year-old boy told the newspaper. “She was amazing. She went on for hours.”
45 songs in three and a half hours, to be exact.
Swift had already been mocked a second cover image for your next The Department of Tortured Poets and has announced a new bonus track.
Swift broke the news during her Eras Tour performance in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday, and went live on Instagram to share the moment with her fans around the world.
The stunning sepia-toned image shows Swift’s face resting on her arms as she lies on a bed, looking into the distance. It’s a similar aesthetic to her. first Tortured poets imagesin which she is lying on a bed in black lingerie.
A second close-up image of Swift’s face highlights the line: “You can’t talk to me about sadness.”
When her tour concludes in Melbourne, Swift will next head to Accor Stadium in Sydney. The four-night event, which begins on February 23, is sold out.
By the way, it will cost almost a million dollars to replace the grass at the Melbourne Cricket Ground once the Eras Tour ends there. MCG boss Stuart Fox told the Australian newspaper News.com that there is a huge effort before, during and after Swift’s shows.
“It’s just huge. When building the seating plan, obviously we have people on the lawn, but it’s really about the production of the set: 70 semi-trailers coming to your field is quite challenging and you have six days of preparation, three concerts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, two or three days of camping,” Fox said. “Then you have to replace half the grass at a significant cost, and then we have an AFL season three weeks later.”
I wish they were prepared for it.
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