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The 1989 World Tour

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• 1 Xfinity Takes You to 1989
• 2.1 Promotional posters
• 4 Concert synopsis
• 6 Surprise songs
• 8 Tour dates

Xfinity Takes You to 1989 [ ]

Many videos surrounding The 1989 World Tour were released through Xfinity, and many sweepstakes for pit tickets during the tour. They released a behind the scenes video as well.

Behind the Scenes of The 1989 World Tour

Concert film [ ]

The 1989 World Tour Live is a concert film by Taylor Swift. It was released on December 20, 2015, exclusively via Apple Music. Directed by Jonas Åkerlund, the film follows the Sydney stop of Swift's fourth headlining concert tour, The 1989 World Tour. The show, which was attended by 75,980 fans, remains Swift's most attended concert to date.

Signs were displayed at the sold out Sydney concert on November 28, 2015, at ANZ Stadium which said "Today's events are being recorded and filmed for global streaming, and may also form part of a television program... for commercial and promotional purposes." Although there was no further information about what the filming was for at the time, there was speculation that it would form a DVD of the 1989 World Tour to be released once the tour concluded its run in Melbourne in late 2015. Later speculation involved an Apple Music Video launch, which was proved to be correct. Coincidentally, " All You Had to Do Was Stay " and " This Love " were added back into the show after having been left off the set list for several months. This makes the Sydney setlist identical to that of Tokyo when the tour premiered.

Taylor Swift - 1989 World Tour (Live 2015)

On December 13, 2015 — Swift's 26th birthday—she announced she had partnered with Apple Music to release a concert film entitled The 1989 World Tour Live in one weeks' time. It contains over two hours of concert, interview, and never-before seen backstage and rehearsal footage with some of the musical and surprise guests from previous shows. Celebrities making appearances in the film include Mick Jagger, Jason Derulo, Idina Menzel, Justin Timberlake, Wiz Khalifa, and Alanis Morissette. It was directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Clips from the film were later compiled for the music video for the seventh and final single from the album, " New Romantics ".

Promotional posters [ ]

The custom stage built for the 1989 Tour is one-of-a-kind. It was a classic catwalk shape that's 100 ft long but the center part could detach from the main catwalk. It a was semi-modular type design able to rise up and do a 360° turn, it permitted to get closer to fans, the technology was like a propeller system.

Concert synopsis [ ]

Set list [ ].

This set list is representative of the show on May 5, 2015, in Tokyo. It is not representative of all concerts for the duration of the tour.

• " Welcome to New York "
• " New Romantics "
• " Blank Space "
• " I Knew You Were Trouble "
• " I Wish You Would "
• " How You Get the Girl "
• " I Know Places "
• " All You Had to Do Was Stay "
• Surprise song
• " Love Story "
• " This Love "
• " Bad Blood "
• " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together "
• " Enchanted " / " Wildest Dreams "
• " Out of the Woods "
• " Shake It Off "

Surprise songs [ ]

The following songs were performed by Swift after "All You Had To Do Was Stay". The song changed each night.

• " You Are In Love " - Tokyo, Sydney
• " Wonderland " - Las Vegas, Bossier City, Pittsburgh, Cologne
• " Holy Ground " - Dublin night two
• " You Belong With Me " - Second shows in East Rutherford, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Denver, Shanghai, Columbus and first shows in Singapore and Foxborough
• " Fifteen " - Chicago night one , Edmonton, Denver, St. Paul, Tampa, & Arlington, second shows in Toronto, Foxborough and Melbourne, third show in Los Angeles, and in Atlanta
• " Mean " - Chicago night two , Seattle, Los Angeles night five , Houston, St. Paul night two
• " Sparks Fly " - Vancouver
• " Fearless " - During the second show in Edmonton, the show in San Diego and the second show in Omaha
• " Should've Said No " - Santa Clara night one
• " Never Grow Up " - Santa Clara night two
• " Ronan " - Glendale night one
• " All Too Well " - Los Angeles night one
• " Red " - Columbus night one
• " Mine " - Brisbane
• " Long Live " - Melbourne night three

Gallery [ ]

Tour dates [ ].

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The 1989 World Tour

Fourth concert tour by taylor swift / from wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The 1989 World Tour was American singer Taylor Swift 's fourth concert tour . It was for her album 1989 , which was made in 2014. The tour started on May 5, 2015 in Tokyo , Japan . It ended on December 12, 2015 in Melbourne , Australia .

Taylor Swift’s Star-Packed ‘1989’ Tour: Relive Every Cameo

By Jon Blistein

Jon Blistein

Taylor Swift  has spent the better part of the past five months bringing her masterful 2014 album,  1989 , to the masses. Swift's gigantic pop production — winding down Saturday in Tampa, Florida — has criss-crossed the United States, as well as parts of Europe, but the star has taken pains to distinguish the trek from your run-of-the-mill stadium spectacle, sprinkling her shows with surprise guests from across the musical spectrum.

Swift has paired with everyone from rising stars like the Weeknd, Fetty Wap, Sam Hunt and Rachel Platten, to established peers like Lorde, Nick Jonas and Selena Gomez, and celebrated veterans like Miranda Lambert, Justin Timberlake and Mick Jagger. If previous Swift album cycles were marked by overwrought discussions about which ex a song was calling out,  1989 has been first and foremost about friendship. Swift and her audience are not separate entities, but fellow partygoers: She reacts to the presence of her guests with the same incredulity as the crowd.

Tracking Swift's revolving door of  1989 guests was as much a pastime this summer as baseball or trying to ignore Donald Trump. To date, 35 of Swift's 61 North American shows have featured at least one surprise guest, with some featuring two or three, plus an assortment of friends, who walked a lengthy catwalk alongside Swift during "Style." For those hoping to relive that magic moment — or for fans at guest-less shows still stricken by FOMO —  Rolling Stone has compiled a complete rundown of the cameo-crammed tour.

Dan Reynolds, “Radioactive” in Detroit

Taylor Swift's first North American show in Bossier City, Louisiana, was a guest-less affair. So was night two in Baton Rouge. Eight days — and one quick jaunt to Norwich, England for a spot at Radio 1's Big Weekend festival — later,  Swift served her first  1989 tour surprise: Dan Reynolds, who pumped his fists with Swift as they traded vocals on Imagine Dragons' 2012 track, "Radioactive."

Little Big Town, “Pontoon” in Pittsburgh

Despite a dramatic, all-encompassing turn to pop on 1989 , Swift is always ready for the country: In Pittsburgh, she brought out Alabama outfit Little Big Town for their 2012 Number One, "Pontoon," an ode to on-the-water revelry with a delightfully cheeky hook — "Out here in the open/Mmmmm-motorboatin'." Swift's backup dancers even came out in swim trunks and goggles, and some were wrapped in unicorn inner tubes.

Echosmith, “Cool Kids”; Rachel Platten, “Fight Song” in Philadelphia

Over two nights in Philadelphia, Swift shone the spotlight on the next crop of pop superstars. During her first show, she brought out Echosmith's Sydney Sierota  to perform the group's breakout single, "Cool Kids." And on night two, she was joined by Rachel Platten. The pair belted Platten's empowering, piano-driven smash, "Fight Song," Swift gazing like a proud peer as the rising singer handled the track's stirring bridge on her own.

The Weeknd, “Can’t Feel My Face” in East Rutherford, NJ (Night One)

Swift broke out the big guns for her first show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. In addition to a duet with the Weeknd on his summer hit, "Can't Feel My Face," the pop star welcomed the U.S. women's national soccer team to walk the catwalk during "Style" with their World Cup trophy . Topping it all off, Swift assembled a sizable chunk of her girl gang, including Lily Aldridge, Lena Dunham, Gigi Hadid and Hailee Steinfeld to join her for "Bad Blood."

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Nick Jonas, “Jealous” in East Rutherford, NJ (Night Two)

Swift didn't disappoint her New York–area fans at her second show at MetLife. "Style" featured another array of friends including Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, Uzo Aduba, Karlie Kloss, Behati Prinsloo and Gigi Hadid; but the night's big guest was Nick Jonas, who lead a bombastic rendition of his soulful pop hit, "Jealous."

Lorde, “Royals”; Jason Derulo, “Want to Want Me” in Washington, D.C.

After her star-packed New York stand, Swift kept things relatively simple in Washington, D.C. On night one, friend and pop prodigy Lorde hit the stage for "Royals," while the following night featured Jason Derulo. The R&B singer dutifully took the reins of the propulsive "Want to Want Me," getting so wrapped up in the heat of the moment his shirt mysteriously vanished by the end of the song.

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Andy Grammer, “Honey, I’m Good”; Sam Hunt, “Take Your Time” in Chicago

On her 2011  Speak Now tour, Swift welcomed burgeoning blue-eyed pop singer Andy Grammer to the stage for a rendition of his breakout single, "Keep Your Head Up." Four years later, she trotted Grammer out again on her first night in Chicago for a performance of his equally infectious 2015 single, "Honey, I'm Good." The next night, Swift gave some shine to rising country crooner Sam Hunt, who parked himself next to Swift for a duet of his fetching, half-rapped ode to slow, simple love, "Take Your Time."

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Walk the Moon, “Shut Up and Dance”; MKTO, “Classic” in Foxborough, MA

With "Fight Song" and "Can't Feel My Face" already under her belt, Swift continued to plow through the various tracks vying for song of the summer 2015. Walk the Moon's slow burner, "Shut Up and Dance" peaked at Number Two on the Hot 100 this July after being released in September, 2014, and Swift and frontman Nicholas Petricca offered an outsized rendition of the ebullient earworm. She replicated that same energy with MKTO the following night during a sizzling performance of the duo's 2014 song-of-the-summer contender, "Classic."

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Nico and Vinz, “Am I Wrong” in Vancouver

The 1989 tour rolled into Canada with Norwegian duo Nico and Vinz joining Swift on stage for their 2014 track "Am I Wrong. The song's thumping percussion and achingly triumphant hook wouldn't sound out of place in Swift's own set list, and the pop star adapted easily to the track, slinking around the stage and smiling widely as she sang with the duo.

Fetty Wap, “Trap Queen” in Seattle

The love song that warmed hearts across the world this summer was given the duet it always deserved when Swift teamed up with Fetty Wap for his beloved breakout, "Trap Queen." Swift kept the romantic vibes going later, when she walked the catwalk during "Style" with the Pacific Northwest's cutest couple, Ciara and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.

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Fifth Harmony, “Worth It”; Little Mix, “Black Magic” in Santa Clara, CA

Girl groups ruled during Swift's two-night stop in Santa Clara, California. At her first show, Swift welcomed Fifth Harmony for a performance of "Worth It," easily nestling into her role as the sixth harmonizer on the group's silky, bombastic, horn-laced single. The next night, U.K. vocal quartet Little Mix took the stage for a sugar-coated rendition of "Black Magic."

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Kobe Bryant; OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, “Counting Stars” in Los Angeles (Night One)

The 1989 world tour parked itself at the Staples Center in Los Angeles for a whopping five nights at the end of August, and the run found Swift achieving a notable milestone: Sixteen sold-out shows at the famed venue — a number equal to the NBA Championships banners hung by the Los Angeles Lakers. Fittingly, Lakers star Kobe Bryant was on hand during night one to raise a banner in Swift's honor. The show also featured a musical surprise for good measure, with OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder hitting the stage for "Counting Stars."

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Uzo Aduba, “White Horse”; Mary J. Blige, “Doubt” and “Family Affair” in Los Angeles (Night Two)

While not all of Swift's guests have been musicians, Orange Is the New Black star Uzo Aduba doubled down on her East Rutherford catwalk cameo and coaxed a deep cut out of Swift in Los Angeles. Aduba revealed a set of deep, gorgeous pipes as she took lead on  Fearless  hit "White Horse" while Swift plucked at her acoustic guitar and delivered backup vocals.

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Later, Swift brought out Mary J. Blige for something old and something new: First, "Doubt," from Blige's 2014 effort, The London Sessions , then the still swinging "Family Affair." Capping it all off, Swift welcomed "Blank Space" video star, Sean O'Pry to the stage for "Style,"  though he also had to share the catwalk with Matt LeBlanc and Chris Rock.

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Alanis Morissette, “You Oughta Know”; Natalie Maines, “Goodbye Earl” in Los Angeles (Night Three)

Night three in Los Angeles found Swift paying tribute to two Nineties heroes, the Dixie Chicks and Alanis Morissette. First, Swift showed she hadn't lost her country twang, stringing out and punching up her drawl alongside Natalie Maines on the Dixie Chicks' boot-stomping "Goodbye Earl." Later, Swift and Morissette scorched the stadium — and exes everywhere — with a devastating performance of the latter's breakup anthem "You Oughta Know."

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Noted Swiftie Ellen DeGeneres closed out the proceedings in characteristically ridiculous fashion, donning a sparkling silver jumpsuit to match Swift's shimmering dress as they walked the catwalk together on "Style."

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Beck and St. Vincent, “Dreams”; John Legend, “All of Me” in Los Angeles (Night Four)

Swift cobbled together a delightfully unique collaboration for her fourth night at Staples, welcoming Beck and St. Vincent for a performance of the former's recent single, "Dreams." The driving pop-rock cut marks a significant turn from Beck's mellow Morning Phase  LP, but the musician relished sharing stadium spotlight with Swift as St. Vincent slashed away at the song's crunchy, funked-out guitar riffs. Later, Swift slowed things down with John Legend, who commandeered the pop star's piano and led the way during a stunning duet on his tear-jerking power ballad "All of Me." 

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Selena Gomez, “Good For You”; Justin Timberlake, “Mirrors”; Phoebe Buffay, “Smelly Cat” in Los Angeles (Night Five)

The final night of Swift's Los Angeles stand belonged to a little-known coffeeshop singer-songwriter: Phoebe Buffay. Or rather, Lisa Kudrow, who reprised her Friends  role for a performance of Buffay's beloved Central Perk smash, "Smelly Cat."

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The night also featured two slightly more well-known musicians: Selena Gomez, who stopped by for a rousing rendition of her tortured slow jam "Good for You," and Justin Timberlake, who took the stage for his devotional paean "Mirrors."

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Omi, “Cheerleader”; Avril Lavigne, “Complicated” in San Diego

Swift did not slow down after her five-night L.A. takeover. Three days after her final Staples Center gig, and a few hours south on Interstate 5 in San Diego, she brought out Omi for another summer 2015 anthem, "Cheerleader." Swift also invited Avril Lavigne up for a performance of her 2002 breakout hit "Complicated," a still perfectly pained jam that proves the cup of teen angst will never run dry.

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Wiz Khalifa, “See You Again” in Houston

The 1989 tour settled into its fourth month, and the final weeks of summer, in Houston. Swift once again surprised her fans with another recent ubiquitous hit, calling to the stage Wiz Khalifa, who helmed his  Furious 7 hip-hop power ballad, "See You Again." Swift dutifully stood in for the song's co-writer, Charlie Puth, belting the aching, striving chorus he sings on record.

The Band Perry, “If I Die Young” in Indianapolis

Swift offered another nod to her roots in Indianapolis, strapping on a sparkling acoustic guitar and joining the Band Perry for a rousing rendition of their hit "If I Die Young." The song's delicate instrumentals and musings might seem out of place for a massive pop production like the 1989 tour, but Swift and the Band Perry deftly reconstructed the track as a stadium-sized tearjerker.

Echosmith, “Cool Kids” in Columbus, OH

Echosmith singer Sydney Sierota earned the unique distinction of being the only performer to take the stage twice, in two different cities on the  1989 tour (save Uzo Aduba, who performed one night, and strutted the stage during "Style" the other). Sierota re-teamed with Swift in Columbus, Ohio, several months after her initial cameo in Philadelphia, delivering another infectious rendition of Echosmith's breakout hit, "Cool Kids."

Dierks Bentley, “Every Mile a Memory” in Kansas City, MO

Swift kept the country vibes going in Kansas City, welcoming Dierks Bentley to the 1989  party to breeze through his 2006 hit "Every Mile a Memory." Bentley and Swift traded lines and coalesced for harmonies, switching up the lyrics — "Red sun down, over a Kansas City sky," Swift bellowed — for some perfectly acceptable pandering to the hometown crowd.

Steven Tyler, “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”; Kelsea Ballerini, “Love Me Like You Mean It”; Alison Krauss, “When You Say Nothing at All” in Nashville (Night One)

With country clearly on her mind, Swift was did not disappoint the Music City crowd at her highly anticipated homecoming concerts in Nashville. On night one, Swift proved she's still tapped into the country world with a rousing duet on "Love Me Like You Mean It" with rising singer Kelsea Ballerini. But she also paid tribute to  vaunted veteran Alison Krauss  with a performance of the musician's 2002 track "When You Say Nothing at All." For good measure, Swift also welcomed recent Nashville transplant Steven Tyler, who helped her belt Aerosmith's endlessly eye-watering Armageddon  anthem, "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing."

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Mick Jagger, “Satisfaction”; Leona Lewis, “Bleeding Love” in Nashville (Night Two)

Swift switched musical directions during her second night in Nashville, but her guests were far from disappointing. The star first welcomed Leona Lewis for a performance of Lewis' devastating 2007 ballad "Bleeding Love." Then Swift served up one of her biggest surprises of the 1989 tour so far: Mick Jagger, who peacocked on stage for "Satisfaction" — much to the delight of one grandma in particular .

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Nelly, “The Fix” and “Hot in Herre” in St. Louis

Hometown hero Nelly served up a double shot during his appearance in St. Louis , first pairing with Swift for a duet of his sultry, Marvin Gaye–sampling new single, "The Fix." But the house truly came down during "Hot in Herre," which featured an appearance from Haim, who closed out their run as  1989  tour openers that night. While Nelly breezed through the 2002 hit, the sister act and Swift dished out the indelible hook and some expertly choreographed dance moves.

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Keith Urban, “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” and “Somebody Like You” in Toronto (Night One)

Keith Urban joined Swift at her first show in Toronto, proving country that clicks both Down Under and up in the Great White North. The pair teamed up for two performances, first kicking out Urban's latest single, "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16," which they followed with the musician's 2002 Number One "Somebody Like You."

Charli XCX, “Boom Clap” in Toronto (Night Two)

Despite canceling some tour dates this summer so she could focus on new music, Charli XCX gladly hopped back onstage with Swift at her second concert in Toronto. The pair took a shot at pure pop perfection and easily hit the mark with a bombastic rendition of XCX's 2014 smash "Boom Clap."

Ellie Goulding, “Love Me Like You Do” in Arlington, TX

Swift has enlisted Ellie Goulding   to surprise her audiences on previous tours, so it's no surprise that the British singer eventually took the stage when her path crossed with the 1989 tour. The pair tackled "Love Me Like You Do," Goulding's summer hit from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack , belting its indelible, amorous hook over a chorus of bombastic synths.

Miranda Lambert, “Little Red Wagon” in Greensboro, NC

Swift delivered another country hit in the midst of her pop bonanza, welcoming bona fide badass Miranda Lambert to the stage to perform her killer Platinum  single "Little Red Wagon." Swift looked happy to let Lambert take lead on the fierce track. She jumped in with some of her own backyard swagger but primarily sat back and marveled as one of country's contemporary masters did what she does best.

Tove Lo, “Talking Body” in Atlanta

Swift is well aware of the unique knack Swedes have for making killer pop, having worked extensively in recent years with Stockholm-based mastermind Max Martin. In Atlanta, Swift welcomed another Swedish star in her own right , burgeoning synth-pop singer-songwriter Tove Lo, who had the crowd howling with a performance of her sensual, slow-burning "Talking Body."

Pitbull, “Give Me Everything”; Ricky Martin, “Livin’ La Vida Loca” in Miami

Swift took her talents to South Beach for the penultimate show of her North American trek, doing everything to delight the hometown crowd short of bringing out Will Smith for "Miami." First, NBA star Dwyane Wade presented Swift  with her own Miami Heat jersey — number 13, of course — and soon after, the pop star was joined by Miami native Pitbull for a performance of "Give Me Everything." Saving the best for last, Swift welcomed Ricky Martin, who came out to a frenzied crowd and the still-transcendent opening horn riff of his 1999 hit "Livin' La Vida Loca."

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Taylor Swift's '1989 World Tour': $173 million grossed so far

Taylor Swift 's 1989 tour returns to No. 1 on Billboard 's Hot Tours recap (see list, below), her sixth turn this year atop the weekly tally of highest-grossing touring artists. Ticket sales totaling $13.6 million reported this week from three venues on the second North American leg bring the world tour's overall gross to $173 million from 59 reported concerts.

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The current run through U.S. and Canadian markets began with an arena performance on July 6 in Ottawa. Now in its homestretch, the 17-week jaunt is set to wrap in Tampa at the end of October. Since the 1989 tour launched in May, Swift has performed for more than 1.5 million fans at 24 arenas and 13 stadiums based on reported box office stats. All of Taylor Swift's guests on the '1989' tour:

Shania Twain scores a Hot Tours ranking this week, landing at No. 2 with $13.6 million in revenue from her farewell tour titled Rock This Country . From 16 concerts recently reported by tour promoter AEG Live, the country femme's sold ticket count jumps by more than 155,000, bringing the overall tour attendance to 648,071. Grosses add up to $61 million from 60 performances reported since the June opener.

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The Rock This Country tour is set to wrap at the end of this month after a 20-week run through the U.S. and Canada. Separated into two legs, tickets went on sale in March for the opening run that played 40 cities during the summer months. In May a second leg was announced with 24 additional shows beginning in mid-September. Only five venues remain on the schedule that ends on Oct. 27 in Kelowna, British Columbia. %shareLinks-quote="The '1989' world tour's overall gross is now $173 million from 59 reported concerts" type="spreadWord"%

Juan Gabriel Earns His First No. 1 on Latin Albums Chart in 18 Years

Following in the third slot on the tally is Mexican singer Juan Gabriel with $5.6 million in sales from a string of six shows at Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City during September. The veteran entertainer sold out each performance at the venue, logging an overall attendance count of 57,120 for the run. He also appeared at the same theater earlier this year, racking up $9.5 million in sales from 12 performances during a five-week span in April and May.

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"The 1989 World Tour" was the fourth concert tour by Taylor, in support of her fifth studio album, " 1989 " (2014). The tour began on May 5, 2015, in Tokyo, Japan, and concluded on December 12, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, the day before her 26th birthday. It became Taylor's highest grossing and most attended tour at the time, mobilizing 2'278'647 fans and $250'733'097 in revenue. It was the highest grossing tour in the world in 2015.

Taylor’s fourth time around obliterated her previous box office revenue and delivered an electrifying show that reached many new heights for the superstar -- literally, as she danced on a massive rotating platform the entire duration of “Shake It Off.”

The "1989 World Tour" included a massive roster of nightly special guests, some of whom weren’t even musicians: Ellie Goulding, Alanis Morissette, Fifth Harmony, Fetty Wap, Justin Timberlake, Lisa Kudrow (performing as her Friendscharacter Phoebe), Selena Gomez and even Ellen DeGeneres were among Taylor’s celebrity friends to help her take the stage for the spectacle.

But for those who weren’t so lucky to be one of the 2 million-plus fans in attendance, Apple Music released a concert film shortly after the tour wrapped. On December 13, 2015, Swift announced that she had partnered with Apple Music to release a concert film entitled " The 1989 World Tour Live " on December 20, 2015. It was filmed at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on November 28, 2015, her largest show to date with 75,980 attendees.

BACKGROUND AND DEVELOPMENT

The tour was announced via Taylor's Twitter on November 3, 2014 in which she said: "#The1989WorldTour is happening!" before giving a link to her website where fans could find out the list of dates. It was also revealed that Vance Joy would be joining her on tour, and that tickets would go sale on for North American fans on November 14. The tour's European, as well as two shows in Japan, were also announced in November 2014, followed by the Oceania dates in December 2014. Additional dates for Singapore and Shanghai were announced in June 2015 with a third and final Melbourne show announced in July 2015. 

In an interview with Time Magazine, Taylor said that "the setlist will be predominantly songs from "1989":

"I have so many things I've been dreaming up for this. If you look at the makeup of my previous music, as far as production elements go, there are a lot of live drums, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and live bass. And if you look at the landscape of '1989', it's mostly synths and automated drums and these kind of big epic synth pad sounds, and key bass, and layered vocals. I have a very big band, there are, what, 14 of us, so what you’re going to end up with is more of a live feel in that it's going to be filled in and more dramatic with more layers to it, but never to the point where it's going to feel noisy or overcrowded." -- Taylor Swift

Taylor also acknowledged the challenge of playing to stadiums, stating that "the challenge with a stadium show is making those people in the very top row feel like they got an intimate, personal experience." The following month in an interview with KIIS-FM, she revealed that she knew what the stage would look like, as well as knowing that "all the fans seem to be saying that they really don't want any song [from "1989"] left off the setlist".

The tour took seven months to plan before three months of music rehearsals, four weeks of stage rehearsals and ten days of two-a-days dress rehearsals. It traveled with 26 semi-trailer trucks and 11 buses carrying 146 people from city to city. Additionally, about 125-150 people were hired in each city to help with the load in and stage setup. The entire load in and stage setup process took between 6 and 8 hours for arenas, with stadiums requiring an additional day. Many of the traveling crew members had worked on Taylor's tours since the " Fearless" era . Taylor chose two designs for the trucks' vinyl wrap; 13 carried one design and 13 had the other.

Signs were displayed at the sold out Sydney concert on November 28, 2015 at ANZ Stadium which said "Today's events are being recorded and filmed for global streaming, and may also form part of a television program...for commercial and promotional purposes." Although there was no further information about what the filming was for at the time, there was speculation that it would form a DVD of the "1989 World Tour" to be released once the tour concludes its run in Melbourne in late 2015. Later speculation involved an Apple Music video launch, which was proved to be correct. Coincidentally, "All You Had To Do Was Stay" and "This Love" were added back into the show after having been left off the set list for several months. This makes the Sydney setlist identical to that of Tokyo when the tour premiered.

On December 13, 2015 (Taylor's 26th birthday), she announced she had partnered with Apple Music to release a concert film entitled " The 1989 World Tour Live " on December 20. Filmed in front of 75'980 fans during her stop at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on November 28, it shows the entire performance and never-before seen footage from backstage and from rehearsals with some of the musical and surprise guests from previous shows.

1. Welcome to New York 2. New Romantics 3. Blank Space 4. I Knew You Were Trouble  ("1989" Rock Version) 5. I Wish You Would 6. How You Get the Girl 7. I Know Places 8. All You Had to Do Was Stay 9. You Are In Love  (could also be an acoustic surprise song) 10. Clean 11. Love Story  ("1989" Pop Version) 12. Style 13. This Love 14. Bad Blood 15. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together  (Rock Version) 16. Enchanted / Wildest Dreams  (Mashup) 17. Out of the Woods 18. Shake It Off

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«I have so many things I've been dreaming up for this. If you look at the makeup of my previous music, as far as production elements go, there are a lot of live drums, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and live bass. And if you look at the landscape of 1989 , it's mostly synths and automated drums and these kind of big epic synth pad sounds, and key bass, and layered vocals. I have a very big band, there are 14 of us, so what you’re going to end up with is more of a live feel in that it's going to be filled in and more dramatic with more layers to it, but never to the point where it's going to feel noisy or overcrowded.» Taylor Swift

The Clean Speech

As is tradition for her tours, Taylor regularly hosted after-show meet and greets for some of her lucky fans. During the concert, her mom Andrea and some members of Taylor Nation carefully watched the crowd to see which fans were the most excited to be there. The bigger the poster, the shinier the costume, the better. If chosen, fans got to enter the backstage VIP experience Loft ’89 backstage hangout after the end of the show. The space was inspired by Taylor’s own New York City apartment that fans had become deeply familiar through her social media. The setup included brick walls, couches, and foods including pizza and homemade cookies.

During the fan meetup, fans would wait around on couches, chatting with others until Taylor would come out to greet them. To pass the time, Loft ’89 included artifacts that every super fan would recognize from previous tours or photoshoots, as well as additional photo opportunities. When Taylor eventually showed up, she would spend time with each group of people, getting to know them and cracking jokes. They would then take a photo together and Taylor would sign one of their belongings, or a laminated tour photo.

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• 1. Welcome to New York
• 2. New Romantics
• 3. Blank Space
• 4. I Knew You Were Trouble. (Rock Version)
• 5. I Wish You Would
• 6. How You Get The Girl
• 7. I Know Places
• 8. All You Had to Do Was Stay
• 9. You Are In Love (acoustic surprise song)
• 11. Love Story (Pop Vesion)
• 13. This Love
• 14. Bad Blood
• 15. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Rock Version)
• 16. Enchanted/Wildest Dreams (Mashup)
• 17. Out of the Woods
• 18. Shake It Off

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Inside the 1989 World Tour Montreal: The ultimate Taylor Swift experience

The concert to end all concerts.

A little warning here, spoilers will be in abundance and I’m not holding back anything here so this is going to be a very  extensive  blog post.

First and foremost, Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars in the planet. That would’ve seem incredibly presumptuous to say two albums ago, but it has become a very generalized opinion. The reason I don’t say THE biggest star is just a kindness I pay to a few other pop artist who are considerably huge, have considerable followings but can’t seem to get people to sell out their concerts or chart their albums in the top ten – not to mention selling them at the one million dollar mark. I’m mentioning all this because Taylor sets the bar up that high and yet, Montreal? Not even one billboard with Taylor’s face on it? No publicity campaigns on the metro? No ads running on TV? Can we at least put some posters on the actual venue? We fans still sold out Bell Centre, but local promoters really fell asleep on this one. Evenko, up your game.

Ah, home. The roar of the crowd inside a Swiftie-packed venue is like nothing else on earth. I don’t scream myself. I just bask in that noise. I’ve been describing it since back in the Fearless era and it has never lost its power. Feels a little more solid now, as fans of Taylor have grown older but remain wide-eyed fantastically crazy. You can’t record it. You gotta be in its midst and feel the power of the full Taylor Nation gathering to see its Queen.

The Blonde With The Sparkly 1989 Microphone is no longer a princess. She has done a homage to the 80’s and come out on top as a Queen of her own sound, an influential force that can’t be ignored by the music industry, able to change its rules and influence and promote other artists around her. In Taylor’s own words, part of that new sound was her move to the big, big city of New York and perhaps for that reason,  Welcome to New York becomes her starting point of a long road. I’m not super fond of this song, but I don’t hate it. There’s better offerings in her incredible 1989 album, but it does work as the welcome track to her concert. The street signs in neon and the colorful costumes give the performance an almost 50’s musical feel. Even the video screens start in black and white to finally turn into full color afterwards.

If you’ve gone to a Taylor Swift tour before, and I have had the unfair blessing of going to all of them, you know she’s influenced by her fans’ reaction. It’s been a while since she just walked around singing her lines. She’s now part of a full choreography because her fans wanted to dance more, so she dances more as well. So, off comes the colorful jacket and we’re onto  New Romantics . This songs needs to be a single, but just so almost every song in 1989. I know that not every track may find success in pop radio and I know that my tastes usually run in direct contradiction, but New Romantics  might the one shining exception in which we’re all in together. Incidentally, it’s true that Taylor has gone with an all male dance crew for this tour, but it works.

To say that the first notes of Blank Space were well received would be a huge understatement. The song has a class of its own and ushers in a different level of sound for the Blonde With The Sparkly Guitar. It’s also here that Taylor literally used the entire extent of her super-long catwalk stage. The length of this stage seemed to dwarf the Bell Centre and there’s more than one trick to it, but you know that the Sparkly Dressed does not give out all her secrets at the start. The cool first thing we learn as a new audience is that it gives everyone in the venue a better seat – specially if you’re in the back. Also, bonus points to T-Swizzle for swinging that golf club around 🙂

Is there a way to put new life into a well known track? I Knew You Were Trouble was often considered hip hop. Here, I dare say it becomes more, as Taylor gives it a slow sensual vibe (yes, I said sensual, grow up) but manages to still keep it classy. A rather interesting interpretation that also revealed another stage trick – the catwalk actually lifted a few feet from the ground and smoke machines are hidden along its length. If I had to give it an 80’s hint, I’d say this almost felt a bit like a  Flashdance  number but with a more urban, rhythmic kick. The crowd loved it and went wild with applause for what felt like five minutes. It was probably a lot less, but I was mind-stretching to make the experience last longer.

There’s good and great in the 1989 track list and then there’s exceptional.  I Wish You Would is all those things and I loved that everyone around me knew the lyrics. Another Jack Antonoff collaboration that was done proper justice on stage. There are some songs I just get into and this one is a personal favorite. You want people to like it when played live and it did. Like many others, it got cheers with its recognizable first notes and was one of those big sing-alongs were everyone joined in. I almost cried, because I don’t hear people mention this one as a favorite often and I was genuinely frightened that it would be taken of the set list before I ever got to hear it live. And it really bitchin’ rocks live.

We get rain and light-up umbrellas for  How You Get the Girl . This was such a cute song with all the dancers using stuff that lighted up in their costumes that it took a minute for everyone to realize that Taylor’s outfit was entirely made of lights that changed color. Also, Taylor still likes to play up the song against one person to symbolize a potential suitor, and that’s ok. However at no point did she actually had one dressed up individually to become her on-stage leading man like in past concerts. I think this says a lot about how this concert was not geared explicitly to romance in the traditional sense, but on how Taylor finds ideas romantic without involving your usual lovers’ drama. She actually would explain it herself later in the show a lot better than me.

There’s a moment here where it took me a little while to realize what was going on. During this transition of stage props, we actually got a guitar duel. The lights are dark but these are the Agency’s guitar players Paul Sidoti and Mike Meadows battling it out, although obscured by green beams of light. This is a rare Agency moment and a throwback to Taylor’s old concerts.

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Sounds like there’s a pattern here, but we got another highlight of the night with I Know Places . I seriously don’t know why some critics have an issue with this song. The comparisons to Lorde abound, but I can’t believe Vulture once called this track “forgettable”. Then again, I am not really approaching this as a critic but as a fan. And that is perhaps the biggest reason why this is a biased concert review: I didn’t want to be the jaded critic but still the naive super fan that can’t help but enjoy himself rather than try to find the angle of failure.The performance is filled with doors to symbolize those blanks. I almost expected M. C. Escher’s  Relativity lithograph to pop up on the screen. It received another rousing long applause from the fourteen thousand spectators in attendance.

Now we go into All You Had to Do Was Stay with another throwback. Taylor used to sing a few lines to one of her band members playing around, and it was nice that she was throwing some of the chorus at Paul Sidoti in this one. Despite the extremely lavish production, I was quite happy to catch little moments like that although I was really far in the back row. I loved the imagery in the background for this one. It’s a closeup to Taylor’s closed eyes in greyscale but as she opens them they’re really blue and the way they shined puts Georgia stars to shame- sorry, I got sidetracked for a moment. Whoever she’s got working those graphics, she’s got a world class top team there. If you look deep into those eyes, there’s lighting and there’s water shaking in them. No, I am not being poetic… That is how it appeared on the screen.

Now we go to You Are in Love which is a slow ballad. It’s very hard to sell that with choreography or visuals. Instead, Taylor opted to bring out the acoustic guitar and do this up close and personal. To accentuate that moment, she used another trick – she resorted to the stage’s ability to raise and lean up in the air so she could get close and be seen by everyone. As the song progressed, we also learn another magical trick: once raised the catwalk can rotate around to give even the people on the sides of the bowl a better view. I must confess, I knew all this in advance as I’ve been giving you spoilers through the inside versions of the tour reports, but it’s still impressive to see at close range. She also had us rehearse the last word you sing back at her during the chorus so we could all sing along.

I’ve written about Taylor’s speech before  Clean before . I am going to apologize that I didn’t capture it on film, but I just wanted to listen in. This moment is the most inspiring and empowering of all. You are not someone else’s opinion of you. You are not damaged goods. You are not your mistakes. What you are is a product of the lessons you’ve learned. You are stronger and wiser because you made those mistakes. You decided not to wallow in sadness and bad comments and instead put on a costume, string yourself up in lights and show up here to dance with me. Just so we’re clear, I’m paraphrasing from memory – this is not literal. I didn’t write it down, because I wanted to listen to it.

Then we move on… and go back in time for some nostalgia with  Love Story . This song used to be Taylor’s magnum opus back when she was only 17 years old. Now it’s not so much her defining song, but it gained a new life with a new pop arrangement. It retained its magic and was just nostalgic enough to remind us of a younger Taylor, one that we miss and remember with affection but not enough to trade for this new inspired and empowered woman that can command a crowd like nobody else. Still, it was a chance to see Taylor work the piano and once again, the stage brought her close to everyone around the venue. I know for some of the fans up high in the rafters it was still not close enough, but Tay can do only so much.

With the stage back at ground floor, the Sparkly Dressed went into  Style with gusto. There’s nothing like the few notes of the hit song to bring everyone back on their feet and for this one we got the dancers back. They had a trick up their sleeves – or rather on their feet. They could slide halfway the length of the ramp as if they were on skates. I prefer  Style like this with no special catwalk guests, but to each their own. The song is just earworm candy and 80’s throwback tune along with sing along lyrics that make it a pleasure to listen to live. I also loved the 007’s style of graphics used on the screens to highlight the performance.

We finally get to see Taylor’s backup singers (aka the Starlights) up close as they get to come down the catwalk. I love that they do the same that Taylor, they alternate sides so at least half of them are always facing your side of the stage. It’s all for  This Love which it’s one of those songs that I tend not to pay too much attention to. The live version is easy to listen and be enthralled by, but it still doesn’t rank high enough. At least it was a moment to see Clare , Eliotte , Kamilah and Melanie on stage.  Correction:   I originally said I’d rather hear “Wonderland” but the song that it usually alternates with is “You Are In Love”, not “This Love”. Thanks, readers!

Afterwards, the stage gets dark and we get drums and flashes. The crowd gets wild as the first lines of  Bad Blood hit the speakers. This is yet another phase of the concert in which Taylor comes out in leather and high boots ready to kick some ass. There is just something very urban-esque and tribal-ish about this performance that made it just amazing to watch and listen to. The dancers keep re-arranging these structures apparently made of metal and glass (probably aluminium and plastic) for T-Swizzle to walk on them. She even gets one moment in which a dancer (Mark? Mason? I can’t tell) always does a funny thing behind the glass every concert. This time he chose to lift up his shirt.

Oh, also there’s a part where Taylor counts to three before continuing the song. She did it twice, once in English and once in French.

We’re running deep into the night at this point so we need another hit. Taylor takes an electric guitar, winds up and strums. She looks and sounds like a rockstar at this point, so I only had spoiler clues to know we are getting a new arrangement for We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together . It’s not one of my faves, but the arrangement is completely out of this world – Taylor went completely Pat Benatar / Joan Jett with the guitar as we get video of her looking like Daryl Hannah in Blade Runner or Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road . You get where I’m going? Can you imagine Imperator Furiosa rocking out? That was Taylor on that song. Sorry if you haven’t seen the movie. An even longer non-stop cheer rang out that seemed endless following this performance because it rocked the house.

But it’s quiet time again. This time with Taylor at what looks to be a piano stolen from the lost city of Atlantis or TRON. She even has bubbles coming up on the screen. The Enchantress plays something from Speak Now you probably haven’t heard in a while. It’s  Enchanted leading into  Wildest Dreams which I hardly consider a slow song and is more like a power ballad. It works and it’s fitting and it gets people waving their light up wristbands. I would’ve loved a close up on the piano, but this will have to do. I know my pictures have hands and light up stuff being waved around, but it’s hard to get a picture from far back. Besides, it’s a concert. You do have to expect someone to put a sign on your way.

Taylor gets up from the piano and we see she is literally the Sparkly Dressed at this point as she goes into  Out of the Woods . I love the background for this song. It’s just the woods going in and out, but it also alternates with this cgi animation of two foxes running in the woods. My congratulations to whom she has working in graphics behind the scenes. These days I don’t hear this song that much, but it was good to relive it live. She had this abrupt cuts of the song that I found a bit of an acquired taste. She also made stops at every phrase during the bridge. I guess she’s trying to give it some new flavor but there’s something to be said for the original version. Very high point of this song, we get the paper airplanes on cables and we get some plane shaped confetti.

All throughout the evening, we’ve been getting these video intermissions of Taylor’s famous friends: Lena Dunham, Serena Gomez, Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, HAIM, Karlie Kloss and Abigail Andersen giving us insight into Taylor as a person. I think Abigail got the biggest pop reaction from the crowd. That is, until now. We get the verified rockstars of Taylor Swift’s life, her cats, making an appearance on screen. It’s Meredith and Olivia been cute. Taylor presents each one and tells us how it’s easy to tell which one is the person friendly one and which one is more of a diva. Meredith manages to scurry off her arms and almost bites her trying to get away. Some people think this is when she scratched poor Tay’s leg, but we don’t know for sure.

The notes for Shake It Off get everyone on their feet for the closing number. This track has been kinda hinted throughout the entire night, with viral fan video lip syncs and behind the scenes. The very songs that surround it in the album have been played. I don’t particularly go out of my way to hear it, but it’s grown on me. It’s an enjoyable performance with all the dancers and Taylor boarding the stage for a merry go around dance-a-thon. The walkway lifts, spins (at quite a speed, I see why they need security restraints) and we all get a clear view for the final bow and the good-byes from Taylor and her dance crew. She finally goes back to the main stage and I only get some blurry zooms as the Agency closes in to take a bow with the Blonde With The Sparkly 1989 Microphone.

She promises that she will return. And I really want to believe that. I really want us to make some noise over it. I wish there was more than one night for Montreal next time. I also wish that there was one more concert for me, but I’m afraid it won’t be for a while. Too many things in life are not making that possible right now, specially the economic one. Not that it’s that big of an issue, because this one performance, this bright moment in time in which we’ve spent a microcosm of a lifetime in Taylor’s own Nation, is more than enough to keep us going.

I want you to see this concert. Not in video, but in life. In your life. I know that’s not possible for everyone, and for that I feel immensely thankful and blessed that I got to experience it when other super fans can only dream of being there. But if you are among the happy and the lucky that get to go, please do me a favor. Take a picture, take a clip, but don’t overdo it. Once in a while, live the moment and let someone else record that. It might be a throwback to say, capture it, remember it but it’s true. You want to live this concert with your eyes more than lens of your camera.

As concerts go, this is not a concert for non-fans. As review of mine go, this is biased to the extreme. Like I said at the beginning, I don’t want to go to a concert as a music critic. You go as a fan. You go to live the experience. And that’s why I don’t believe that this is a review at all. This is not even a retelling, because this happened in my mind more than it happened on stage. That is the beauty of what Taylor does. The very best version of the 1989 World Tour happened because you and Taylor and me were all there.

All I can say now is, I hope you have the same or a better experience that I did at your concert. And if you live anywhere else where there are no concerts from the Sparkly Dressed, I hope for a brief moment I’ve been able to describe to you what it feels to be in one.

Dream impossible dreams, Taylor Nation.

Coming up on the Calendar :

• July 10: The 1989 World Tour – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium .
• July 11: The 1989 World Tour – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium .
• July 13: The 1989 World Tour – Washington, DC – Nationals Park .
• J uly 14: The 1989 World Tour – Washington, DC – Nationals Park .
• July 18: The 1989 World Tour – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field .
• July 19: The 1989 World Tour – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field .
• July 24: The 1989 World Tour – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium .
• July 25: The 1989 World Tour – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium .

(Sources: TheSwiftAgency.com)

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3 thoughts on “ Inside the 1989 World Tour Montreal: The ultimate Taylor Swift experience ”

Best review ever!

Taylor actually replaces “You Are In Love” with Wonderland sometimes, not This Love.

And I think the dancer that makes her laugh during Bad Blood is Christian!

Also, I know that Jamie King’s husband (I don’t remember his name, sorry) made a few things for the screen, I don’t know if it was all of it though.

Thank you very much!

For those who can’t see/feel/enjoy it in person, i think you captured it well 🙂 it is an awesome experience! #Yay4Tay

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Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal... Read all Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal, and special guest footage from her 1989 Tour. Filmed in front of 76,000 fans at the ANZ Stadium in Sydney, Australia, "The 1989 World Tour Live" captures Taylor Swift's entire performance while also mixing in behind-the-scene, rehearsal, and special guest footage from her 1989 Tour.

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After the grammy-winning artist announced dates for her reputation tour, fans started reminiscing about all her famous friends who joined her during her last concert series.

Taylor Swift  just released the  dates  for the North American leg of her Reputation tour, and fans are hoping the concert series will be another star-studded event (à la the 1989 World Tour).

Back in 2014, Swift made the crossover from country singer to full-fledged pop star and announced the tour for her wildly popular album  1989 . Each night, Swift surprised her adoring fans with a guest performer. The list of guests was extensive and diverse, including  Keith Urban ,  Mick Jagger , Fetty Wap  and  Ellen DeGeneres .

Take a look at all the celebrity cameos from the 1989 World Tour in the following gallery:

The singer sang "Let It Go" with the  Frozen star at her concert in Tampa, Fla. on Halloween...in costume!

Taylor Swift surprised her sold-out Atlanta crowd with the "Talking Body" crooner. 

Blake Shelton 's ex-wife joined Swift onstage to perform "Little Red Wagon."

With just a few U.S. dates to go, Swift continued to surprise fans with an impromptu performance of "Love Me Like You Do" in Texas.

The "Boom Clap" crooner joined her friend on stage for another electrifying performance in front of 50,000 fans. 

Goin' country in Toronto! Swift brought out the American Idol judge. 

During the St. Louis show, T.Swift and the hometown rapper had a blast singing his greatest hits.

Swift proved she had moves like Jagger when she brought the  Rolling Stones frontman on stage in Nashville to sing "Satisfaction." 

Swift and the Aerosmith frontman sang his band's 1998 hit "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing."

At a concert in Nashville, Swift sang "When You Say Nothing At All" with the country star, who released a cover of the ballad in 1995.

Swift and the country singer performed Ballerini's 2014 hit "Love Me Like You Mean It" in Nashville.

The group performed "If I Die Young" at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

The two performed at the Minute Maid Park in Houston.

The singer performed "Complicated" with the Canadian pop star at her concert in San Diego.

The singer brought her "Bad Blood" co-star and bestie on stage for her final Los Angeles show.

At her final L.A. show, Swift asked the new dad to perform for the first time since baby Silas' birth. 

We're so jealous! Swift got to sing one of the most iconic breakup songs of all time ("You Oughta Know") with the person who wrote it. 

For one of her five sold-out Los Angeles shows, Taylor got some indie cred by having Beck and St. Vincent perform "Dreams" with her.

The Emmy-winning talk-show host showed up in a sparkly tutu ensemble that rivaled Swift's.

The besties performed a duet to "Royals" in Washington D.C.

Swift proved she rolled deep by having her squad join her during her New Jersey show.

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STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University is recognizing Bryan Wilson as its National Alumnus of the Year during Friday’s [May 17] MSU Alumni Association 2024 awards banquet.

Born in Tupelo and raised in Fulton, Wilson earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in entomology from MSU in 1982 and 1984, respectively. The path was a natural fit for Wilson, who grew up scouting cotton fields in the summers with his father, a first-generation college graduate who also earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural studies from the land-grant institution.

As a student, Wilson was dedicated to his academic studies, graduating summa cum laude. He was an entomology club member and played intramural sports. He also met his wife and fellow MSU graduate Cindy during his first year of graduate school. An education major, she landed a summer job as a student worker in the entomology department, where their paths crossed.

Wilson’s professional journey spans more than four decades and is demonstrated by remarkable success and pioneering leadership in the agricultural industry. He began his career at BASF in field sales. During his 15 years with the company, he grew his skills and entered progressive executive roles in North America and Europe.

In 2002, Wilson joined United Agri Products as president and general manager. He and a few colleagues engineered a buyout of the company from ConAgra Foods the following year, turned around performance and took it public in 2005, trading on the NASDAQ exchange. The company was sold in 2007 to Canada’s Agrium Inc. for $2.65 billion, the largest agricultural retailer acquisition of the time.

Wilson then co-founded Tacoma Ag LLC in 2009. The generic-branded crop protection company rapidly rose to national prominence, reaching nearly $125 million in sales in less than 10 years. He retired from the corporate world in 2018 following the acquisition of Tacoma Ag by Atticus LLC.

Since then, Wilson has spent his time working with private equity groups assessing potential acquisitions in the ag industry and investing in various venture capital enterprises. He also serves on boards of directors for several promising ag technology companies, including FruitScout and Zeakal Inc. For his outstanding career achievements, he was honored by MSU as the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Alumni Fellow in 2014.

Beyond his impressive professional achievements, Wilson has dedicated his service on the board of several local organizations, including the Greater Starkville Development Partnership, North Mississippi Daily Journal, North Mississippi Medical Center and the CREATE Foundation, which he chaired from 2020-2022.

Wilson has served multiple terms on the MSU Foundation board, is a longtime member and current treasurer of the Bulldog Club board and has provided valuable insight to his college as a member of the dean’s advisory board. As an entrepreneur, he is involved with the Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach in the College of Business, is a member of the Bulldog Angel Network and enjoys working with and serving as mentor for several start-up companies developed through the Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach.

The Wilsons’ gifts, benefitting areas across Bulldog athletics, endowed scholarship awards, the T.K. Martin Center’s Project IMPACT program and student activities, reflect the couple’s belief in the transformative power of education and importance of paying it forward.

For Wilson, receiving the university’s highest alumni award is not just a personal honor but a tribute to his family’s journey and the values instilled in him by his parents.

Along with the national alumnus recognition of Wilson, each of MSU’s eight academic colleges will honor a graduate for outstanding personal, professional and community achievements. The 2024 MSU Alumni of the Year honorees include (by college):

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Michael “Mike” Bogan of Del Mar, California, is the CEO of LandCare USA. The Memphis, Tennessee, native earned his bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture in 1987 and started his career in Washington, D.C. Bogan joined The Brickman Group in 1989 and helped pioneer a branch model that spurred the company’s national expansion. He subsequently took on roles with Brickman in West Palm Beach, Florida, and San Diego, California, where he grew the company to become an industry leader. In 2014, he joined the commercial landscape services business LandCare USA, where he rebranded, expanded and led a 2019 management buyout of the company. Today, the $325 million company employs 4,000 team members with offices in more than 25 states. Bogan is most proud of the purpose-driven culture he is building at LandCare, which has created fulfilling careers for many landscape professionals. He serves on the boards of directors for the National Association of Landscape Professionals and Nature Sacred, as well as the advisory council for MSU’s Department of Landscape Architecture. Honored as a 2020 Distinguished Alumni Fellow of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Bogan credits his time at MSU for preparing him for a broad and varied career in the landscape industry. He and his wife Rebecca, a fellow 1987 landscape architecture graduate, are loyal supporters of MSU and its landscape architecture program.

College of Architecture, Art and Design

Ted Trussell Porter is an accomplished architect in New York City. The Mississippi native earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from MSU in 1981, followed by a master’s degree in architecture from Yale University. While in graduate school, he worked with Cesar Pelli and Associates. He later joined I.M. Pei and Partners in New York, where he worked on a range of international projects. In 1994, he established the firm that has evolved into Ted Porter Architecture PLLC, which has received many accolades over the years, including the AIA New York State Design Award, AN Best of Design Award and a Gold Award for Brick in Architecture from the Mississippi AIA. Porter’s work also has been featured in numerous professional publications. He has taught architecture courses at both the School for Visual Arts and the New York City College of Technology and served on educational and professional architectural juries. At MSU, Porter is a member of the School of Architecture’s advisory board and generously invests in experiential learning opportunities for architecture students through the Trussell Travel Award. Beyond professional life, he has served as chairman of the board of Gotham Chamber Opera and is an American Friend of the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy. He and his partner Steve Godeke enjoy world travel to architectural monuments, notable gardens and music festivals.

College of Arts and Sciences

Paul Kinsey is a foreign language and international business graduate who spent his career traveling around the world. After graduating from MSU in 1987, he furthered his education at Georgia State University, earning an MBA. Kinsey’s career journey began at Threads USA, where he worked as director of international sales. He later joined US Air (US Airways) and progressed to roles in areas including operational oversight, emergency response planning and labor negotiations/relations over the next 25 years. His work contributed to the organization’s mergers with America West Airlines, followed by American Airlines. Upon retiring from American in 2019, Kinsey joined Starkville-based real estate brokerage Mississippi Magnolia as director of operations in 2022. He is grateful for the influence of several MSU faculty mentors he had as a student and credits their guidance for much of his academic and professional success. In return, he has generously invested in scholarship support to assist current and future Bulldogs. The Trenton, Tennessee, native considers Tupelo his true home and now resides in Starkville near his beloved alma mater.

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Rodger L. Johnson of Atlanta, Georgia, has led a distinguished career as an entrepreneur in the communications technology and application software sectors, transforming innovative start-ups into commercial successes across the nation and internationally. His ventures have included Knology, Brock Control Systems, Communications Central, Tower Cloud, Point Broadband and Highline. Before embracing entrepreneurship, Johnson refined his skills at AT&T, where he took part in its Management Development Program, laying the groundwork for his future successes. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1971 and later earned an MBA from Georgia State University. A proud MSU alumnus, Johnson is a co-founder of MSU’s entrepreneurship program and a longtime member and current vice chairman of the MSU Foundation board, and he has served in various advisory roles for both the foundation and the Bagley College. For his outstanding achievements and dedicated service, he was recognized as the Bagley College’s Alumni Fellow in 2004 and received an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from MSU in 2023.

College of Business

Thomas G. "Tom" Hixon of Ridgeland is the chairman of Phoenix Development Company LLC. The Charleston native graduated from MSU in 1967 with a degree in accounting and went to work for the U.S. Army and Air Force Exchange Service as a civilian managing the retail supply channel at the Pentagon Annex. After his military civil service, he transitioned into accounting as the CFO, CEO and director of operations for Valley Food Service. Later, he held several positions at Forestry Suppliers Inc., including co-owner, CFO, CEO and president.  Hixon then took on an entrepreneurial role as co-founder and chairman of Gulf South Medical Supply, growing sales and profitability and taking the company public. After a merger with another company, Hixon and his management team founded another medical supply group, First Choice Medical Supply, and later sold the company to McKesson Pharmaceutical. Hixon’s wife and family have always been very supportive during his business career. Both of Hixon’s sons, Tommy and Shane, are also entrepreneurs and own and operate their own businesses. As an entrepreneur, Hixon learned valuable lessons quickly: "hire great people, give them more responsibility than they've ever experienced, give them ownership in the company, compensate them on an incentive basis, then leave them alone and don't mess up their heads with corporate politics and other meaningless rules and regulations." A proud Bulldog alumnus, Hixon serves on the board of the MSU Foundation and is a former Bulldog Club board member. He was previously honored as the 2018 Alumni Fellow for the College of Business.

College of Education

Kathy Olsen is a two-time MSU graduate and resident of Nashville, Tennessee, as well as an accomplished CPA and tax accountant. The Mississippi native earned her bachelor’s degree in music in 1973 and a master’s degree in music education in 1974. She taught music theory at Northwest Mississippi Community College before earning an accounting equivalency degree from the University of Memphis. She worked for several years in Big 8 accounting and corporate tax. Despite transitioning into accounting, Olsen’s passion for music has remained a strong part of her life and involvement at MSU. Along with her love for the piano and harp, she has continued to teach piano voluntarily in limited-income schools and regularly hosts concert performances. She and her husband are proud supporters of MSU’s music department, contributing to its transformation into an All Steinway School, as well as the university’s veterinary and animal care clinic. Recently, she was asked to serve on the advisory board for the Nashville Music Chamber Society, a high honor and testimony to her dedication to the arts.

College of Forest Resources

C. Conrad Kempinska ’s journey from MSU to a global executive has spanned various businesses and taken him to more than 30 countries. The Natchez native earned dual bachelor’s degrees in wood science and business administration from MSU in 1983, followed by an Executive MBA from Rutgers University. He began his career at Koppers, a global leader in wood preservation technologies, treated wood products and carbon compounds primarily used for railroad crossties, utility poles and outdoor wooden structures. After seven years, he left to embark on a multi-decade stretch of international business assignments where he gained extensive experience in the wood protection, specialty chemical and materials industries. In 2015, Kempinska returned to Koppers as vice president for commercial and business development for the company’s Performance Chemicals (KPC) division, based in Griffin, Georgia. In that role, he played a key part in developing KPC’s strategic plan and helped drive several new business and product initiatives. In 2019, he was promoted to senior vice president, North America, having since led KPC’s largest business unit through its most significant growth phase. During his career, Kempinska has been active in several industry associations, including the American Wood Preservers Institute, Consumer Specialty Products Association, Glass Packaging Institute and Treated Wood Council, serving in front-line advocacy roles with regulators and legislators in various states and Washington, D.C. At the local level, he and his Koppers colleagues are active community supporters of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Boy Scouts of America, Anne Street Elementary School, Southern Conservation Trust and several local charities.

College of Veterinary Medicine

Dr. Amanda H. Camp of Ridgeland is a two-time MSU graduate whose career is defined by her dedication to animal care and the veterinary community. She earned a bachelor’s degree in microbiology in 1996 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in 2000, and now is a partner and veterinarian at All Creatures Animal Care Center in Madison. For her career success and devoted service, Camp was named Young Veterinarian of the Year in 2007 by the Mississippi Veterinary Medical Association, which she now serves as an at-large representative. She remains involved with MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, volunteering to serve on interview committees for prospective students and providing opportunities for current students to gain real-world experience in her clinic through the college’s Enhanced Clinical Practicum program. Camp holds leadership roles in the Jackson Area Veterinary Association and was formerly a speaker for Zoetis, an animal health company.

For more on the MSU Alumni Association, visit www.alumni.msstate.edu .

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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Kicks Off European Leg in Paris: 8 Best Moments

Seven songs from 'The Tortured Poets Department' made their live debut at Défense Arena.

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Taylor Swift ’s Thursday (May 9) performance at the la Défense Arena in Paris marked the beginning of a new era – literally. At what she called “the kick-off of the European leg of the Eras Tour,” Swift added a new section of songs from The Tortured Poets Department, which debuted on the Billboard 200 with 2.61 million equivalent album units and is currently No. 1 for a second week, in between the Australasia shows and a string of European shows through the end of August. As if to underscore the special occasion, Swift pointed out that it was the first time she had played those songs on the Eras Tour — “or as I call it, Female Rage: The Musical .”

For a truly global superstar, Swift hasn’t toured much in Europe on a serious scale, but both French fans and a significant number of concert tourists from the U.S. knew what to expect. Even the normally minimalist French swapped their black dresses for pink frills and lyric-inspired outfits. (Respect to the Best Dressed Dads: One guy in a “Dad Reputation” T-shirt, another in one that said “Look What My Daughter Made Me Do”.)

As soon as Tortured Poets -style graphics came on the screens, the applause was deafening, and it stayed that way as Swift played “But Daddy I Love Him,” “So High School,” “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” “Down Bad,” “Fortnight,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” The screaming only got louder for “Paris.”

Based on the first night, it seems that the European shows on the Eras Tour will not be a break with the rest of the tour so much as an evolution – as Swift releases more music, the show needs to grow as she does. Here are some new, and a few familiar, highlights.

Paramore’s Talking Heads Cover 

Swift isn’t only a hard act to follow, she’s hard to open for, and Paramore will play before her all summer in some of the biggest venues in Europe. So frontwoman Haley Williams laid out the band’s mission: Getting the crowd “ripe and ready for Miss Taylor Swift.” They did just that, kicking their set into high gear with the second song, a sharp-edged cover of the Talking Heads’ “Burning Down the House.” The song is half funk, half a herky-jerky deconstruction of it, and Paramore leaned into that contradiction, as Williams, an energetic performer, did her best high-octane, high-awkwardness dance. “There’s no such thing as bad dancing at a Paramore show,” she told the crowd after that.” But since Swift’s performance is polished to a high sheen, Paramore’s manic, messy energy made a nice contrast. 

Taylor Speaks French! 

The idea that American and British performers touring Europe will attempt a few sentences in the local language has lasted long past the time when local audiences didn’t speak great English. No one cares anymore. Except when it comes to Swift, who only had to speak one word, enchanté – literally “enchanted” but colloquially “good to meet you” – to get Parisians, who are normally too cool to go nuts, to go nuts. She continued in what sounded like a decent accent – something was très bien and something else was c’est magnifique – and the crowd just kept going crazy.

Some of the fans there were French and hadn’t had much of a chance to see Swift before this, but some came from other countries in Europe and others from the U.S. or Canada. It was a smart way to build energy, too. After Swift’s countdown clock hit zero, she opened with “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” and “Cruel Summer,” then gave herself a minute to stand still without letting the crowd’s energy fall. Then she went onward to “The Man” and “You Need to Calm Down,” which no one did.  

The Staging of “Look What You Made Me Do” 

The energy of the concert never flagged, but certain songs made the audience erupt with enthusiasm. The most artfully staged was “Look What You Made Me Do,” which had the backup dancers in what looked like plastic display cases that they broke out of. The constant movement was muted, restrained – then freed and unleashed as the song’s beat seemed the make the arena shake. Sure, as the song says, the old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now; why? Because she’s dead! But the staging was all about escape, rebirth, reinvention. It’s the Eras Tour, after all. 

Cabin Fever Up on the Roof 

Since Lover served as the show’s opening era, after the Reputation performances ended with “Look What You Made Me Do” – and rapturous applause – one of the newer Taylors (circa Folklore and Evermore ) came back onstage, atop a see-through wood cabin. Lounging on the roof, as the audience’s wristbands glowed an autumnal yellow, Swift performed “Cardigan.” It’s hard to make an arena mellow, but the cabin established a setting and the mood-lighting drove the point home: This was about atmosphere. It’s a gorgeous, ethereal song, quite a contrast from “Look What You Made Me Do,” but that’s the point of having eras in the first place. 

Swift Shook It Off 

The section of the show devoted to Folklore and Evermore had its own kind of energy – rapturous and almost roomy, rather than fast and furious. Swift explored it with eight songs – “Cardigan,” “Betty,” an especially affecting “Champagne Problems,” “August,” a shortened “Illicit Affairs,” “My Tears Ricochet,” “Marjorie,” and “Willow.” It was like a walk in the woods, followed by a crash back into the city when the 1989 segment started with “Style,” after which Swift went into “Blank Space,” and then a triumphant “Shake It Off,” a short “Wildest Dreams” and a “Bad Blood” that brought down the house. The last three songs came off like a victory lap, as though Swift was justifiably proud of her quieter music but wanted to show that she still owned the shake-the-stadium anthems of her first pure pop album. The stage was set for…something.  

Poets in Paris

Before the show, one could hear anticipation (in several languages) about whether Swift would add a new era for her new album. The consensus seemed to be… probablement , and it ended with a new video that had the visual vocabulary of The Tortured Poets Department – moody, with muted tones and images of paper and, at one point, a typewriter. The applause went from loud to explosive – most people there knew enough about the normal setlist to realize this was a departure from that, and that they would be the first ones to see it. In a white dress, Swift leaned into this, and a version of “But Daddy I Love Him” that went directly into “So High School” made everyone realize they were seeing something truly special. Swift, who always seems happy to be wherever she’s performing, seemed especially excited, too. It is, literally, a new era.  

 Who’s Afraid Indeed? 

Swift played a generous helping of new songs – “But Daddy” and “So High School,” and then “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” “Down Bad,” “Fortnight,” “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” – all with the kind of precision that the entire show is known for. But the live standout was “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” which has the scorned fury of some of her earlier songs, and a backing video that lit up her eyes underscored the anger in it. If this tour is Female Rage: The Musical , as Swift says, “Who’s Afraid” emerged as one of the frighteningly good numbers.  

Paris, Part Deux: Unplugged 

After the Tortured Poets era, Swift took out an acoustic guitar and, even without doing anything, raised a certain amount of suspense about what songs she’d play on it. “There’s a song that I have been wanting to play in the acoustic set in the Eras Tour ever since I wrote it,” Swift said, “but I was only going to play it for the very first time” – suspense! – “in one specific city.” The crowd went wild: She meant “Paris,” in Paris! It was perfectly suited for the unplugged treatment, and it went over great – especially in a crowd with so many people who had traveled so far to be there. Then she played “loml” on the piano, which was less obvious but even more beautiful. 

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