The internet could not “calm down” after a photograph of an infant laid out on the floor of aTaylor Swiftconcert went viral.
The image left fans outraged over the moment from the 34-year-oldhitmaker’s Eras Tour show in Paris.
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TheFortnightsinger kicked off the European leg of her Eras Tour on May 9 with four concert dates in Paris, marking her first concerts after the release of her new album,The Tortured Poets Department,last month.
The album broke records since its April 19 release, becoming the most-streamed album in a single day on Spotify and making Taylor the most-streamed artist in a single day on the music-streaming platform.
Within the first week of the release, the album also saw a record-breaking 2.61 million equivalent album units earned—including downloads, streams, and CD, vinyl, and cassette sales, according toBillboard.
Riding on the success of her new album, theFearlesssinger kicked off her Paris shows last week and said the memories were “so magical.”
“I wish I could have toured Europe more. This is a dream crowd,” the Pennsylvania-born singer told her Paris audience during an electrifying show.
“You were the first crowd to see songs fromThe Tortured Poets Department,” she said and added, “Or, as I like to call it, ‘Female Rage: the Musical.'”
TheFortnightsinger kicked off the European leg of her Eras Tour with four dates in Paris, marking her first shows since the release of her album,The Tortured Poets Department
The singer-songwriter penned a heartwarming post following her Paris shows and thanked her fans for all their “excitement, passion, and love.”
“This post is dedicated to the new Tortured Poets section of the Eras Tour (aka Female Rage The Musical!) and everyone who made these memories so magical,” theMidnightsalbum maker wrote onInstagram.
“To my crew, fellow performers, and band who worked tirelessly in their break to concoct this surprise for you – but mostly for the fans in Paris,” she continued. “I’m so thankful that it was you we got to show this to for the first time because you gave us so much excitement, passion, and love. I’m SO fired up to play this for every crowd on the tour. See you very soon, Stockholm!”
As Taylor’s 18-city European leg of the Eras Tour began, tickets for the La Défense Arena were sold out in less than an hour, according to Frédéric Longuépée, CEO of the arena.
“To the best of my understanding, a lot of Americans chose to come to Paris to attend this show and obviously visit our beautiful city,” Frédéric toldNBC News.
“Something like 25–30%” of the crowd were Americans, “which is big,” he added.
Experts estimate that about one-fourth of the concert-goers attending the European shows could be travelers coming from North America
After paying around $1,500 each for a ticket for herself and her mother, 21-year-old Kennedy Smith skipped her college graduation to attend the Eras Tour show in Paris instead.
It was “nothing short of a miracle,” Kathleen said, calling the entire experience the “trip of a lifetime.”
“This is my graduation-from-college gift at Texas A&M,” she added. “And I’ve always wanted to come to Europe. … And then to be seeing Taylor Swift, it’s just a dream come true.”
TheLove Storysinger’s next stop onthe touris Stockholm, where thousands of attendees are expected to come from the U.S.
“They said, ‘Wait a minute, I can either spend $1,500 to go see my favorite artist in Miami, or I can take that $1,500 and buy a concert ticket, a round-trip plane ticket, and three nights in a hotel room,” Melanie Fish, an Expedia spokesperson and travel expert, said about North American residents traveling to Europe to see the pop star perform live.
“Don’t bring babies to concerts,” the internet said after a picture of an infant on the floor went viral after Taylor Swift’s Paris show
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