World tour ‘Dieras Tour’ resumes in Australia on the 16th (local time)
Performance at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a capacity of 100,000 people
“When we performed in Australia 15 years ago, there were 900 people in the audience.”
‘Your Losing Me’ first live… ‘Surprise Songs’ stage
American pop superstar Taylor Swift performed in front of nearly 100,000 audiences, breaking her record for the largest audience for a single performance.
According to the British daily Guardian and the American weekly People’s online edition on the 16th (local time), Swift attracted a whopping 96,000 people during her world tour ‘The Eras Tour’ held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Australia on this day. performed in front.
The Guardian reported that when Swift first performed in Melbourne 15 years ago, the audience was 900 people.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is currently known as the third largest capacity stadium in the world. The first place is India’s Narendra Modi Stadium (approximately 132,000 seats), and the second place is Pyongyang’s Lung Road (114,000 seats), North Korea. The maximum capacity of the Melbourne Cricket Ground is approximately 100,000, and the number of spectators for this Swift performance was determined taking into account stage installation and other factors. Of course, this performance was sold out.
Swift had the best week of her life last week. At the 66th Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles (LA), USA, they won two awards including ‘Album of the Year’ with their 10th full-length album ‘Midnights’. The ‘Dieras Tour’ was held for four consecutive days at Tokyo Dome in Japan, attracting 220,000 people. Also, in Las Vegas, USA, he ‘intuitively saw’ his lover Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs winning the ’58th’ Super Bowl.
Foreign media reported that Swift may have been lacking in stamina, but she captivated the audience with her spectacular show and perfect stage manners during her Melbourne performance.
The Guardian said, “Dare I dare say, is there any other musician since the Beatles who has evoked such mania?” and added, “With the tremendous support for Taylor Swift’s show, there has been ‘Taylor-gating’, where fans without tickets gather outside the stadium to listen and sing together.” The practice of ‘Taylor-gating’ is increasing,” the report said.
“Thousands of strangers become instant friends both on and off the show. “The young women exchange handmade friendship bracelets and compliment each other’s revamped outfits,” she said. “They are not alone in feeling their inner child being healed. “To borrow Swift’s words, it is a performance that ‘brings back my girlhood,’” he added.
The set list consisting of songs grouped by album, which was highly evaluated at each concert, allowed us to directly experience Swift’s maturation process this time. On this day, there were two ‘Surprise Songs’ that were not on the set list.
This time, they played ‘Red’ and ‘You’re Losing Me’. In particular, this was the first time ‘Your Losing Me’ was performed live. This song was released as a surprise official release in November of last year, and has been spreading among fans for a long time. In this way, Swift prepares a new gift for each performance and is showing off her knack for giving variations on the same composition. Many Australian Swifties (Swift fandom) responded that ‘Your Losing Me’ was such a heartbreaking ‘breakup song’ that it made them feel very sad even though they were actually in a happy relationship.
It is no exaggeration to say that Melbourne is currently Swift’s city. In addition to the pop-up store, to welcome Swift, Flinders Street Station, Australia’s oldest train station with over 100 years of history, wrapped her image in a projection. In particular, an academic symposium on the topic of Swift will also be held. For this purpose, Swift experts from various countries visited Australia.
Due to this ripple effect, there continues to be regret among Swift’s fans and those in the performance industry that Swift’s performance in Korea was canceled. Hyundai Card Vice Chairman Jeong Tae-young, who has hosted the ‘Super Concert’ series that has led to performances in Korea by major pop stars such as ‘The Beatles’ Paul McCartney and Britpop band ‘Coldplay’, lamented after watching Swift’s Tokyo Dome performance, saying, “I can’t even talk about it because I don’t have a concert hall.” I also did it.
The ‘Dieras Tour’ sets new records every time it is held. As of November of last year, eight months after the start of the tour, there were only 60 tours in North and South America, and sales reached $1 billion (approximately KRW 1.3275 trillion), the first in the history of a global pop music concert tour (according to Pollstar, an American performance industry magazine). surpassed . The pop star world tour with the highest sales to date is the ‘Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour’, a farewell tour of British pop giant Elton John. It started in 2018 and continued until this year with a break during the COVID-19 period. Sales were $939 million (approximately KRW 1.2395 trillion).
Swift will perform one more time at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the 17th. They will appear on stage in Sydney from the 23rd to 25th. They will perform six times in Singapore from the 2nd to 4th and 7th to 9th of next month. A European tour is also planned. Also, on April 19th, they will release their 11th regular album ‘Tortured Poets Department’. Even in the midst of his busy day job, he is looking around and trying to contribute to society, such as donating about 100 million won to the bereaved families of the victims of the shooting incident that occurred during the celebration of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory.
Source: Donga
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