Taylor Swift promised “a journey through all of my musical eras” when she began her Eras Tour at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Friday. 10 hit albums are a lot of territory to cover, especially since four of them have been released since the Reputation Tour ended in late 2018.
While revisiting her catalog one era at a time in a marathon set that lasted longer than three hours, she managed to make it appear effortless, taking in the experience as much as the Swifties in attendance did.
A clear contender for the title of the most successful artist of her generation, Swift was forced to pull the plug on Lover Fest, the tour she had planned in support of 2019’s “Lover,” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that took everybody off the road in 2020.
That helped make this perhaps the most anticipated tour of 2023, and the excitement in the stadium before she even took the stage after opening sets by Gayle and Paramore was undeniable.
There were tracks from her early albums that served as a reminder that her journey had a slightly more rural feel to it when the world first learned of her prodigious abilities.
There were tracks from “Red,” the interim album on which she masterfully re-branded herself with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” and the brilliant “1989,” which launched the synth-pop resurgence that followed.
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