This year in theIn the Meazza concert agenda there are seven great protagonists, but only one queen. Taylor Swift. Starting fifteen months ago from the State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, in fact, “The Eras Tour” brings the Pennsylvania heroine back to Milan, 13 and 14 July, thirteen years after that episode at the Forum which has remained his only Italian live show so far. It was the time of the “Speak Now Tour” and she – who had appeared only four months earlier in the X-Factor studios to promote “Mine” in front of the Rai2 cameras – faced the Assago audience not yet covered in glory for the cascade of platinums and golds with which global hits such as “We are never ever getting back together”, “Shake it off”, “Blank space”, “Style”, “Wildest dreams”, “I don’t wanna” would have inundated her too. live forever” with former One Direction Zayn, “Look what you make me do”, “Anti-Hero”, “Cruel summer” and all the others.
So much so that at the time Taylor’s show included thirteen pieces, whileand today there are forty-five of them for a three and a quarter hour concert. All without interruptions (or almost), suggesting, after almost a hundred shows, a seemingly infinite physical, mental and emotional resistance. In short, a stadium blockbuster that tells of her album after album (or, if you want, season after season) a bit like the exhibition that the Museum of Arts and Design in New York dedicated to her until two months ago to ride her the clamor of this world tour enhanced in autumn by the arrival in theaters of Sam Wrench’s concert film “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” shot in the stands of the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Los Angeles. Divided into ten acts, one less than the chapters of a discography launched by Swift in 2006 with the album that bears her name (the only one absent from the repertoire since the marathon), the Eras Tour makes use of the choreography of Mandy Moore, recommended to the American singer-songwriter by her friend Emma Stone, who had had the opportunity to work together on the set of “La la land”.
Among the albums most present in concert “Midnights” and the last “The tortured poets department”, which include seven songs each in the setlist. Taylor should have returned to the road as early as 2020 to give a live performance to the album “Lover”, but the pandemic then blocked everything. And when the machine started moving again, his artistic baggage had meanwhile been enriched by three more albums, “Folklore”, “Evermore” and “Midnights”, in addition to the re-recordings of “Fearless”, “Red”, “ Speak now” and “1989”. The arrival, two months ago, of “The tortured poets department” has further shuffled the cards, changing the physiognomy of the show once again. But the public liked it and continues to like it, if it is true that Eras took ten months to become the highest-grossing tour in history, achieving the feat, with financial statements in hand, of leaving behind so much the “Farewell Brick Road” by Elton John and “Music of the Spheres” by Coldplay.
