Taylor Swift put on an amazing visual show as she performed to 70,000 fans on Saturday night, kicking off her record-breaking Eras Tour with her second show in Glendale, Arizona.
The 33-year-old superstar — who rocked a pink and purple beaded mini skirt and top and belted out a 44-song set list — held a glowing golf club as she entertained the sold out State Farm Stadium.
Swift took over the Phoenix suburb of Glendale this weekend, drawing an estimated 150,000 superfans to the city, one month after it hosted Super Bowl LVII.
Swift stunned on stage at the State Farm Stadium in ‘Swift City,’ flaunting her incredible figure and giving a powerhouse performance that did not disappoint.
The 12-time Grammy winner conquered the stage in multiple outfits, including a pink rhinestone leotard with nude tights and shimmering knee-high boots, and a sultry one-legged black bodysuit bedazzled with ruby red snakes as bicycles and cars went by her on stage.
The glowing golf clubs were featured prominently when Taylor sang her hit Blank Space.
The light saber–like clubs were a high-tech update on the original versions that she used in the video for Blank Space.
In it, Taylor let out her frustrations by smashing up a gorgeous classic car with a regular, non-glowing golf club.
The hitmaker recently dropped four new songs in celebration of her tour, three of which are re-recordings of past songs, to hype up fans for this tour.
The Bad Blood songstress explained how her eighth studio album Folklore was inspired by her imagination instead of her own life.
‘[My songs are] kind of like journaling for you or something,’ Taylor told her massive audience. ‘[And] I wanted to do a different thing that I had done before [with Folklore].’
At one point in her jaw-dropping performance, Taylor sipped into a bedazzled silver blazer before donning a fringed champagne minidress.
Some of her other striking looks included a pale purple pleated dress with ruffles, which she appeared to wear during some of her more relaxed tunes.
In total, she performed 44 songs in over 3 hours and 15 minutes while songs from Midnights got significant spots in the setlist.
Taylor played some of her recent tunes from her surprise releases Folklore and Evermore.
One of her sets featured a see-through cabin that she sat upon while singing, which was reminiscent of a set design she previously employed while performing Folklore songs.
She also showed off some of her guitar-playing skills with an acoustic version of her Folklore song Mirrorball.
The U.S. leg of Taylor’s sixth headlining tour will be taking the country by storm for the next five months, concluding with a slate of Los Angeles concerts in August.
The massive launch comes after Ticketmaster’s catastrophic pre-sale debacle, which left pre-verified fans waiting in a virtual line for hours and others unable to purchase tickets at all.
The controversy triggered a lawsuit from fans and a furious response from Swift herself.
Fans who were successful in getting tickets also complained about the exorbitant prices, which were due to Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing scheme, which raises the prize significantly when demand is high.
Fortunately, Swift still had reason to celebrate last month after she made history at the Grammys yet again.
Swift won Best Music Video for her romantic drama, All Too Well: The Short Film making her the first person to win the category with a sole directing credit for their own music video.
‘I can’t put into words what this means to me. For The Recording Academy and my peers to acknowledge me as a director, and in doing so, acknowledge my work to try and reclaim my music… I’m blown away,’ Swift tweeted after the victory.
It marked Swift’s 12th Grammy Award, after earning 46 nods through her career, which has spanned multiple genres and made her arguably the most famous pop star.
Over the past few years, Swift has begun to spend more time behind the camera as the sole director of her music videos The Man (2019), Cardigan (2020), Willow (2020), Anti-Hero (2022) and Bejeweled (2022).
In December, she announced her plans to direct her first feature for an original script that she wrote.
Her project will be produced by Searchlight Pictures, which is the studio behind a number of critically-acclaimed flicks, including Nomadland and The Shape of Water.
SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk
