Gifts from Taylor, these were to be worn during the concert to create a synchronized starscape. Attached to it I found a white plastic LED bracelet.
TAYLOR SWIFT DEF LEPPARD UPGRADE
My photo pass never materialized, but Swift's publicist did upgrade my seat. Within an hour, all 14,000 seats were filled. Tamara Pless of Jericho, who came with her 15-year-old daughter, Isabel, wore a T-shirt that summed up the scene: "It's a Taylor thing, you wouldn't understand."įinally, the doors of the "Belle" Centre opened. The citizens of Taylor Nation were running in tight teenage-girl packs, dancing and singing along to her music blasting from the Virgin Radio 96 FM booth. Their eyes were wide with the anticipation of their first Tay-Tay concert. The crowd was sprinkled with chaperoning parents, especially for the youngest concertgoers wearing blinking tutus, fuzzy cat ears and bedazzled T-shirts. Several hours early, I scouted my way to the box office, where I found a long line of cute foxes, feathery pegacorns, starched ballerinas, TS cheerleaders, princesses and girls carrying handmade signs bearing a favorite lyric. Feeling a little apprehensive about my first arena concert in two decades, I circled the construction minefield that surrounds the home of the Montréal Canadiens a half dozen times before settling on a $25 parking lot. But show me someone else who has stared down Apple Music and made it blink, and then given a family $50,000 to help pay the medical bills for an 11-year-old girl with leukemia.īut back to Montréal and Swift's 1989 World Tour at the Bell Centre. Sure, she's had a few run-ins with errant boyfriends, pop-star catfights, photographers and onerous contracts. I watch and learn as her team heightens the anticipation of her every move. I work in public relations, so I admire Swift's skills in that arena, too. Swift is the type of person we can aspire to be at any age: She's (reportedly) kind to her friends and compassionate to those in need, knows the importance of thanking fans, and isn't afraid to stand up to a bully. So is it creepy to be that middle-aged guy who sings along to Swift in his car, follows her tweets, has her photo on his iPhone screen, and ordered the new CD deluxe edition for the bonus tracks? With the release of her fifth album, 1989 (2014), Swift celebrated the year of her birth and her musical rebirth as a pop sensation.īy now you may be wondering, Isn't the typical Taylor Swift fan about 13 years old? Yes. No more teardrops on her guitar, no more high school crushes, no more wondering why people were so mean. Fast forward through Fearless (2008), Speak Now (2010) and Red (2012) to last October, when Swift left Nashville and headed to the Big Apple.
Her first album, released in 2006, was titled simply Taylor Swift. She opened for Brad Paisley, but it was clear even then that the flirty young woman dressed in a blue sundress and cowboy boots was destined for top billing. My journey really began back in 2007, when I saw Swift light up the stage at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Junction. Little did I know I was going to earn my wings as a Swiftie in the Taylor Nation. Last Tuesday afternoon I crossed into Canada on a mission to photograph Taylor Swift in concert in Montréal. We don't mind admitting that each proved to be a transcendent performance. And Seven Days arts writer Ethan de Seife, a former academic and one of the brainiest folks we know, stayed a little closer to home to experience the satirical glory of "Weird Al" Yankovic at the Flynn. Thirtysomething Seven Days music editor and confessed music snob Dan Bolles lived out a childhood dream by catching Def Leppard in Gilford, N.H.
Stephen Mease, a photographer, writer and public information director for Champlain College, traveled to Montréal to see pop superstar Taylor Swift, where he was older than most of the fans by a good three decades. To expand on that thesis, Seven Days recently sent three reporters to three very different regional concerts. And you should never be ashamed of what gets your rocks off. But most of us follow certain artists with shades drawn, as it were - perhaps because they're not "cool," or because they're over the hill. We all have different tastes and preferences, which is one reason why being a fan is so much fun. When it comes to music, beauty is in the ear of the beholder.
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