First, a note about the process here: We’re not including covers, though if you’re asking, my favorite is a tie between the version of Phil Collins’s “Can’t Stop Loving You” she did for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge and just these vocals on repeat. We will get to the fact that she spends the first 90 seconds of this number floating over the venue in a giant snake endoskeleton in a moment. Honorable Mention: “Bad Blood” and “Should’ve Said No” mash-up, the Reputation Tour The wait is nearly over, but, until then, enjoy this highly subjective but also totally correct ranking of her five best live performances ever. She’s kept plenty busy in the meantime-releasing five albums (three original and two rerecorded), a concert film, and the All Too Well short film, for which she won a Grammy-but there’s something special about a Taylor Swift live show I think we’ve all been missing. Swift’s long-awaited Eras Tour kicks off Friday, marking her first concert dates since 2019 and first tour since the 2018 Reputation Tour (Lover Fest, the four-show mini-tour Swift planned in 2020, when she probably would have introduced herself again and brought out who-knows-what pyrotechnics, deep cuts, and surprise guests, was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic). Now, it is an apt reintroduction.Ī global superstar saying hello to 50,000-plus fans like she’s meeting each and every one of them over lattes exists at the intersection of massive and intimate, where Taylor Swift’s shows thrive. It is an objectively good bit when Taylor Swift, near the beginning of every concert, cocks her elbow to hold her microphone at the ready, then pans across her doting assemblage and tells them something they already know.
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