Who is the most powerful pop star in the realm? You can find the answer in the “Eras tour” show.

The dizzying numbers of her music are not enough: it is on the field that Taylor Swift wants to reiterate once and for all that she is the most powerful pop star of her generation . Five years after her last tour, yesterday evening the 33-year-old American singer-songwriter kicked off the highly anticipated “Eras tour” from the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona: 44 songs, three and a quarter hours of concert with a lineup that covers his entire discography , special effects that have left fans speechless.

The vocals of “Shake it off” unleashed its firepower, setting . a blockbuster show with which she aims to officially take the pop queen scepter, sweeping away all potential competitors.

Fans who made it all the way through the grueling race to secure tour tickets, with Ticketmaster pre-sale issues generating quite a stir four months before the tour kicked off, were ultimately rewarded with a monstrous concert. , during which Taylor Swift did not hold back at all. Far from it. The wait was sky high: 150,000 fans in all, those who managed to buy tickets for the first dates of the tour, last night’s and tonight’s, arrived in Glendale these days, which has a population of 199 thousand inhabitants.

Mayor Jerry P. Weiers has decided to rename the town Swift City until the end of the second of two scheduled concerts: “We all know that she is one of the most influential artists of her generation and we are writing our love story towards her and we salute every swiftie in style,” the mayor said. For two nights State Farm Stadium became – as the Guardian wrote when reviewing the concert – the Swiftverse , Taylor Swift’s universe: a kingdom populated by her fans and dominated by the pop star with 120 million copies sold worldwide .

Since the “Eras tour” is Taylor Swift’s first in five years, the pop star performed live for the first time the songs contained in the records she released between 2019 and last fall : from ” Lovers ” to “ Midnight ” (became the first record since 1987 to be sold more in vinyl than in CD format – yes, to the long list of miracles performed by our lady of Taylor Swift’s discography we must add this too), passing through the 2020 diptych “ Folklore ” and “ Evermore ”.

“Midnights”, the latest album, is the most represented in the lineup together with “Folklore”, with seven pieces taken from the album : “Lavender haze”, “Anti-hero”, “Midnight rain”, “Vigilante shit” , “Bejeweled”, “Mastermind” and “Karma”. From the first disc of the 2020 diptych he has instead played “Invisible string”, “Betty”, “The last Great American dynasty”, “August”, “Illicit Affairs”, “My tears ricochet” and “Cardigan”. The set up, between giant screens, an “animated” catwalk (at a certain point of the show he pretended to dive “into” the catwalk that leads from the stage to the parterre – in reality it was a video – before re-emerging at the center of the stage ) and notable special effects .

Taylor Swift has performed at least one piece on every one of her records . Of “ Lover ”She chose“ Miss americana & the heartbreak prince ”,“ Cruel summer ”,“ The man ”,“ You need to calm down ”,“ Lover ”and“ The archer ”. Of “ Fearless ”She chose the title track,“ You belong with me ”and“ Love story ”. From “ Evermore ”She extracted“ ‘Tis the damn season ”,“ Willow ”,“ Marjorie ”,“ Champagne problems ”and“ Tolerate it ”. From “ Reputation ”She fished“… Ready for it? ”,“ Delicate ”,“ Do n’t blame me ”,“ Look what you made me do ”. Just a piece from “ Speak now ” and “ Taylor Swift ”, “Enchanted” and “Tim McGraw” respectively. Five, however, the pieces from ” 1989”: “Style”, “Blank space”, “Shake it off”, “Wildest dreams” and “Bad blood”.

The singer-songwriter has announced that in each city where the tour will stop, she will play a surprise song acoustically: during the first of two concerts in Glendale, she chose “Mirrorball”, from “Folklore”. She didn’t fail to go back to her roots, to Taylor water and soap of the beginning, proposing her. ten minute version of “All too well” from “Red” : from the same record she also played “22”, “We are never ever getting back together” and “I knew you were trouble”.

Taylor Swift diving and swimming below the stage at tonight’s opening of her ‘Eras Tour.’ pic.twitter.com/mi0sT8Tkf8

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“I don’t know how to process all of this and how it’s making me feel,” he said at one point of the show, commenting on the return to the stage after five, very long years. The “Eras tour” will continue until August 5th : it will stop in the main US cities – 52 shows scheduled – and will end in Los Angeles. At the moment there are still no news of dates in Europe.

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