Concert Critique: Taylor Swift 1989 Tour

Last month I attended the Taylor Swift concert at Nationals Park. How was it? Hands down one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to, if not the best. I think this was the first concert I’ve attended that wasn’t just about the music (which I LOVE), but also an entertaining show.

As we walked in to the stadium, we were handed glow wristbands. They didn’t glow at all until Taylor’s show started, then they would light up with the music. The crowd looked AWESOME with the lights all in sync. Definitely added another dimension to the experience.

Clare and I were so privileged to have amazing floor/field seats so we had an awesome view of Taylor and the surrounding crowd behind/around us.

She had three warm up bands (really making us wait…) – Shawn Mendez (who Clare and I had already seen at Jingle Ball and didn’t feel the need to see again), and Vance Joy who is adorable! He is so cute and was smiling the whole time. I could feel the joy radiating through him, and I also enjoyed his music. Lastly was Haim. Haim is a girl rock band made up of three sisters who all play guitar, drums, etc. and really get into their performance. One of the sisters even scared the sh** out of Clare and me with her freaky facial expressions.

Once Taylor came on stage, of course the crowd went wild. She is an amazing singer and performer and I have loved her music since she started. But now her now pop music on 1989 is amazing - so catchy as all of you know (and have heard her songs three billion times on the radio). She has an amazing voice, and sounds the same live as on her CDs, as well as mixing it up live to give it some variety. She created a few mashups throughout the show, including an Enchanted/Wildest Dreams mash up which are two of my favorite songs of hers put together - awesome! She is also talented with instruments including the guitar and piano – I love artists who can do it all.
 

Taylor was very interactive with the crowd – and she is hilarious. She was constantly giggling and making jokes, and even stayed positive when the crane-thing she was on broke and she thought she was going to be stuck up there for who knows how long. Finally when they fixed it she was like “Thank God they fixed it, I was pretending like I had a back-up plan for you all but really I didn’t at all.” She was very conversational with the crowd, and talked about herself and her personal life as well as giving fans encouragement and advice about life.

She has been having a special guest at all of her big concerts – she’s had Rachel Platten, her model friends (Gigi Hadid and Martha Hunt), the women’s soccer team (right after they won the World Cup!), and many others. For our show, she performed a duet of Royals with Lorde. It was pretty cool to see Lorde since she is a Grammy winning artist, and thankfully that’s the one song of hers I like, but I’m not her biggest fan so that wasn’t the best draw for me – but as I said it was still cool to see her perform.

Along with Taylor being cute and giggly, she was also SEXY. I was surprised with how hot she looked and her racy dance moves. I was thinking about how everyone used to make fun of her for not being able to dance, and you can tell she has definitely been taking some dance classes because she was killin’ it!

I also loved her backup dancers. For most of her songs it was just about a dozen hot men with bangin bodies and mooooves. They were really entertaining and fun to watch.

She played all the songs we wanted, most of them were from her 1989 album, but she also played Never Ever Getting Back Together and a rock version of Love Song. I would have loved to hear all of her old songs too but we obviously didn’t have time for that, she has way too many hits. But I was pleased that she played for a little over two hours. The show didn’t end until 11:45 pm!

In conclusion – Taylor Swift was full of energy and passion and gave the show every ounce of what she had. She’s filled with so many emotions, and they beamed through her for each of her different songs. She put on an AMAZING concert, and if you have the option to see her in concert – DO IT!