“When I see you all in front of me, such a beautiful crowd, you make me feel so… powerful! » Taylor Swift accompanying this sentence with a pretty pout of her red lips unleashed thunder in the audience of the Paris La Défense Arena. The Parisian concert hall welcomes the American megastar for four concerts of his “Eras Tour”, which will also visit the Groupama Stadium in Lyon on June 2 and 3.
The fans, their glitter, their fervor
For fans, the moment is exceptional. Each equipped with a luminous bracelet that flashes with the changing colors of the scenography, 45,000 people go wild in front of this total spectacle. They are part of it with their glitter and their fervor. Led vigorously by a star with boundless energy, the concert goes from one to the other without any downtime, at an almost overwhelming volume. Taylor Swift leads her show and gives herself without counting.
“What an honor to be here and see such a magnificent crowd gathered in Paris, in the most romantic city in the world! I will be with you this evening to tell you about an eighteen-year adventure in music. My name is Taylor. » The singer displays her trademark, a friendly cordiality which brings her closer to her fans.
Her “Eras Tour”, of which she is launching the European stage in France, is designed to present the best of his albumseach of them being qualified as‘” time “ with a tad of emphasis, each sporting a particular color and style, each resulting in a spectacular, glittery new outfit for the endlessly legged diva.
White, which entirely dominates the painting appearing in the middle of the show, contrasts with all previous eras, especially red (album Red) or pastel (Lover). Backing singers dressed as nurses, a long line of dancers advancing behind the singer in a diaphanous dress, pale lighting, and even a sort of large medical bed illuminated with LED lights that slides across the stage, Taylor Swift creates an atmosphere of Hollywood melodrama in black and white to present his new album, The Department of Tortured Poetsreleased on April 19.
Revue leader like on Broadway
But dad, I love him, Fifteen days or Who’s afraid of little old me? the “tortured poets department” is there, for the first time on stage, even in the poems written on the star’s puffy white dress or in the typewriter Remington that she pretends to use on stage. A white frilled jacket thrown over her shoulders and there she is leading a whole company of beating drums towards the end of the very long stage set up in the middle of the Paris La Défense Arena, while each of her fighters displaying the white flag s she will collapse under imaginary bullets… She herself will fall, the last, like a puppet, evacuated by two dancers.
There she is again, a disjointed silhouette that we pick up and pretend to collapse before appearing in a black leotard and top hat, at the heart of a line of identical dancers, like in a black and white musical from the 1930s that Busby Berkeley would have choreographed. I can do it with a broken heart becomes a Broadway-style revue with large white feather fans, on which a curtain will fall, in a perfect illusion of a return to the origins of the musical show. “There you are, you were the first to hear songs from “The Tortured Poets Department”, says the singer. Or rather, as I call it, “Female Rage: The Musical“. »
There’s never a dull moment with Taylor Swift, there’s never a time. Here she plunges suddenly into an unexpected void, disappearing from sight, to emerge as if she were swimming underwater in a scene that has become as changeable as the sea. Special effects, changes of outfits, of atmospheres, astonishing scenographies… The songs are performed with conviction by an artist who seems tireless, a professional leader of the show throughout a show that is totally under control, but stunning.
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18 years of career, a global phenomenon
December 13, 1989. Birth of Taylor Swift in West Reading (Pennsylvania) into an upper-middle-class American Catholic family.
2000. Performs the American anthem in front of 20,000 spectators during a basketball game.
2003. The family moved to Nashville, Tennessee to launch her into country music.
2006. Taylor Swift, first album, will be followed by Intrepid (2008) and Speak Now (2010).
2012.Red, record of critical recognition.
2014. Album 1989 with the tube Shake.
2017. Reputation, followed by Lover (2019), from Folklore And Always (2020), and Midnights (2022) make her the world’s leading record seller.
2021. She took back the rights to her albums and re-recorded the first ones in “Taylor’s Version”.
2023. Personality of the year Time.
2024. First musical artist with ten-figure assets ($1.1 billion) ahead of Paul McCartney. The Department of Tortured Poets, eleventh album. Concerts in Europe from his “Eras Tour”, in Paris from May 9 to 12 and in Lyon on June 2 and 3.