“I spend a lot of my time trying to plan these things,” Taylor Swift said with a grin — and with classic understatement — as she strapped on her acoustic guitar for the “surprise songs” segment of her “Eras” tour stop in Cardiff, Wales. “I like to challenge myself to do different things every night [so] every single show is unique.”
Considering the unprecedented levels of attention the tour has attracted since it kicked off in Glendale, Arizona, 100 shows and over a year ago, this seemed like a bold statement.
After all, nearly everyone in the 67,000-capacity Principality Stadium had almost certainly seen most of the show already, either in the cinema, on Disney+ or both, possibly over multiple viewings. Even the most casual observer — not that there seem to be any of those here, even the smattering of designated driver Dads presented as hardcore Swifties — will have caught key moments in news coverage or on the myriad of social media streams that proliferate around each show.
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