On the Arlington stop her Eras Tour, Taylor Swift can take us anywhere she wants.
After a countdown clock blasting Lesley Gore’s 1963 anthem on feminine emancipation, “You Don't Own Me,” Taylor Swift took the stage to a recorded medley from past works.
In the prelude mix for the Eras Tour – a roadshow which revisits her catalog including four un-toured records – the kickoff to the bridge of “My Tears Ricochet,” a 2020 track to come later in the night, looped.On her second evening at the AT&T Center in Arlington, Tex., on Saturday, April 1, Swift opened up her touring-oriented artistic process.
Unlike our roving photographer, I’d never traveled out of town for a stadium tour. Eras’ unique pandemic wealth of untapped material felt like a worthy occasion, and I had a friend who’d acquired her own ticket in the chaotic TicketMaster rollout, as the Arlington show was one of a few sold separately through SeatGeek. She told me she knew spending over $200 was “an insane thing to do,” but she did.
I first saw Swift at someone’s birthday party trip to the San Antonio Rodeo at 12 years old, an age I remember wishing would hurry up to roll over to be the singer’s favorite, 13. A few years later on the Fearless Tour, I landed the right age to sing along to “Fifteen.” portion, just after sunset, found the audience’s biggest response yet, I’d guess a few twentysomething Texas women in cowboy boots held similar histories.
Lucky for us, Swift flubbed it the second take, asking, “Do you think I can even do it? Why do I write things like this?” Needing the crowd to pull off the composition, she quickly spun her finger in a circle and ran the lines to herself in the evening’s most revealing moment. And when Swift launched back in, the voices were right there with her.
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