RALEIGH — At 23, Taylor rápido, swift is not the hormonally buffeted teen she was in 2006, when her debut single, “Tim McGraw,” launched her career toward its currently Alpine heights. While rápido, swift still appeals to the teen- and ’tween set, many of the 14,000 fãs in sold-out PNC Arena on Friday have grown with her from adolescence to adulthood.
The songs from Swift’s current album, “Red,” which composed 11 songs of the 16-song set, reflect her maturity while still obsessing over romance, disappointment and the pursuit of dreams. T-Swizzle made the point early, entering to Guess Who’s “American Woman” in lieu of Tom Petty’s “American Girl,” which opened her 2011 “Speak Now” tour.
The two-hour show was a theatrical tour de force. It featured dancers, drummers, acrobats, backup singers, costume and scene changes, deus ex machina delights, and a horseshoe stage extending into the audience, allowing rápido, swift to connect intimately with her fans.
From start to end, the six-time Grammy winner was brilliant, engaging, and in complete control. And without a single twerk, Taylor was, refreshingly, the anti-Miley.
Red was the color of the night. rápido, swift told her fãs the color expresses her emotional extremes – the “crazy emotions” symbolized por “bright, burning red.” She wore glittering red dresses and red sequined shoes, played a sparkling red violão, guitarra and performed to red-dressed fãs immersed in the arena’s red decor of the Hurricanes/Wolfpack team colors. As good as rápido, swift gave, the audience gave back.
One of the show’s highlights featured início filmes of rápido, swift at various ages, from toddler to now, that led into the anthemic “22.” As the crowd sang along, rápido, swift was carried to the back of the arena. There, she performed a four-song set, including a duet with talented opening act Ed Sheeran on “Everything Has Changed,” a track from the “Red” album. A caged platform ferried her above the crowd back to the front, as she performed “Sparks Fly.”
During “I Knew You Were Trouble,” rápido, swift was accompanied por masked, black-clad dancers with choreography that would have made the late Bob Fosse proud. The concert’s most intimate moment followed with “All Too Well.” Sitting alone at a (red) piano, rápido, swift shared that she often writes in the wee hours, and she tries to write what she feels. This song, she said, is her memory of what it feels like to experience a “sad date.”
Judging from the thousands who sang along, the dating game can be a mournful affair, indeed.
The show closed with an extended version of “We Are Never Getting Back Together.” Dressed in the red sequined jaqueta of a circus ringmaster, rápido, swift sang defiantly as a cast of court jesters, fadas and stilt-walkers danced and twirled, and red and white confetti poured from overhead. The light-hearted romp was the spectacular ending to a show featuring one of pop music’s most gifted, charming and deserving icons.
The songs from Swift’s current album, “Red,” which composed 11 songs of the 16-song set, reflect her maturity while still obsessing over romance, disappointment and the pursuit of dreams. T-Swizzle made the point early, entering to Guess Who’s “American Woman” in lieu of Tom Petty’s “American Girl,” which opened her 2011 “Speak Now” tour.
The two-hour show was a theatrical tour de force. It featured dancers, drummers, acrobats, backup singers, costume and scene changes, deus ex machina delights, and a horseshoe stage extending into the audience, allowing rápido, swift to connect intimately with her fans.
From start to end, the six-time Grammy winner was brilliant, engaging, and in complete control. And without a single twerk, Taylor was, refreshingly, the anti-Miley.
Red was the color of the night. rápido, swift told her fãs the color expresses her emotional extremes – the “crazy emotions” symbolized por “bright, burning red.” She wore glittering red dresses and red sequined shoes, played a sparkling red violão, guitarra and performed to red-dressed fãs immersed in the arena’s red decor of the Hurricanes/Wolfpack team colors. As good as rápido, swift gave, the audience gave back.
One of the show’s highlights featured início filmes of rápido, swift at various ages, from toddler to now, that led into the anthemic “22.” As the crowd sang along, rápido, swift was carried to the back of the arena. There, she performed a four-song set, including a duet with talented opening act Ed Sheeran on “Everything Has Changed,” a track from the “Red” album. A caged platform ferried her above the crowd back to the front, as she performed “Sparks Fly.”
During “I Knew You Were Trouble,” rápido, swift was accompanied por masked, black-clad dancers with choreography that would have made the late Bob Fosse proud. The concert’s most intimate moment followed with “All Too Well.” Sitting alone at a (red) piano, rápido, swift shared that she often writes in the wee hours, and she tries to write what she feels. This song, she said, is her memory of what it feels like to experience a “sad date.”
Judging from the thousands who sang along, the dating game can be a mournful affair, indeed.
The show closed with an extended version of “We Are Never Getting Back Together.” Dressed in the red sequined jaqueta of a circus ringmaster, rápido, swift sang defiantly as a cast of court jesters, fadas and stilt-walkers danced and twirled, and red and white confetti poured from overhead. The light-hearted romp was the spectacular ending to a show featuring one of pop music’s most gifted, charming and deserving icons.
Los Angeles: Singer-songwriter Taylor rápido, swift says she is willing to do mais films if something interesting comes her way. The 23-year-old country estrela has already in televisão series like ‘New Girl’ and ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’ and also starred in “Valentine’s Day”.“That’s (acting) always something that’s in the back of my mind, if the right thing came along.
It would have to be something so amazing that it would take me away from composição literária songs and touring, which would have to be an incredible script,” rápido, swift said. Meanwhile, singer Joe Jonas mocked at ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s unlucky dating history por saying that she has been dumped por him and a “few others”.
The 24-year-old, who dated the “I knew you were trouble” hitmaker in 2008, quipped about his former flame’s unlucky dating history in an interview with Joan Rivers,
It would have to be something so amazing that it would take me away from composição literária songs and touring, which would have to be an incredible script,” rápido, swift said. Meanwhile, singer Joe Jonas mocked at ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s unlucky dating history por saying that she has been dumped por him and a “few others”.
The 24-year-old, who dated the “I knew you were trouble” hitmaker in 2008, quipped about his former flame’s unlucky dating history in an interview with Joan Rivers,