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The massive dining table Swift crawls across in "tolerate it," the swarm of dancers dressed as different eras of Taylor trapped in clear boxes during "Look What You Made Me Do," and the wooden folklore cabin she dances around in "last great American dynasty" are among the night's standout sets. Swift openly sings "I had a marvelous time" with a broad grin, motioning towards the audience, during the later.
The 12-time Grammy winner joked about the audience's lovely attire, jokingly apologized for her "extremely wordy lyrics," and warned that she was feeling emotional, heightening the sense of community. Swifties had a keen mutual un- derstanding: in exchange for supplying the music to their life, Taylor's ambitions had come true.
I had a sense that the eight-minute stand- ing ovation was unprecedented even before I learned that it was a record. Swift took a mo- ment to wait out the applause, and for the first time all night, she looked astonished and over- whelmed.
Swift ended the evening with a performance of two Midnights songs: "Mastermind" and "Karma." Closing shows with these songs is a great idea; "Mastermind" recounts how she "laid the groundwork, and then just like clockwork, the dominoes cascaded in a line," so it's clear why this is a fitting choice. If I told you I was a genius, what would you say? Soon after, Swift sings that karma has become her "boyfriend." Even though it's obvious she's referring to her romantic prospects, I like to think she's just being literal. Is she not drawn to the unknown force that keeps her going? The masters of Swift were bought out by them. She broke all prior records for fast- est reprinting of previously published works. After a certain rapper progressively burned and almost lost her career with an edited video, the complete phone call was eventually leaked and vindicated her.
Then, suddenly, his career began to collapse, while she was catapulted to international superstardom.
For me, the visual montage that Taylor Swift's lineup created was one of the show's greatest and most unexpected aspects. While listening to the 10-min- ute epic "All Too Well," I found myself back in 2012, reading the Red CD sleeve notes com- pulsively in bed as a means of dealing with a recent breakup. Remembering the excitement of borrowing the Speak Now CD from the library and listening to "Enchanted" brought back those fond memories. I was out on a cool autumn stroll, avoid- ing tennis lesson and admiring the browning leaves that had fallen into the courts, when
"...Ready For It?" brought in the reputation age. Swift's live performances are as near to magic as one can get, and her introspective narrative style makes it easy to capture these moments on record.
That's why, no matter how many people are listening to her in a 70,000-person sta- dium, everyone will feel like they're right there. Even though unfathomable effort went into making this film, her music has been the soundtrack to many people's lives. In fact, not even Swift herself can give it the due credit it deserves. That's not something that can be repro- duced in just any old place.