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itspileofgoodthings · 1 year ago

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like. She is a tour de force, she IS the one-woman show, she is truly a superstar. It’s not like I didn’t know that going in but it was seeing that power at work and in its right context for the first time.

#like the crowd?? the crowd #it’s too big. it shouldn’t be that big. it’s inhumane it’s bordering on criminal #should it even be allowed?????#questions to be asked. but if there is one person ALIVE who knows how to direct them and give them a context in which they all have a part #and nothing feels too big just big enough #it’s her. and I KNOW it’s not the same for other artists. they don’t have that discography and they don’t have that range #and they just don’t have the SONGS #the songs are the bedrock!!!!!#(anyway sorry to any Gracie or haim fans but the openers in their own small way were part of pushing me to the brink of madness)#because I was like I came here for this?????? to watch you wail incoherently into a microphone??????#but then it’s like ‘oh wait’#‘no it’s just Taylor’#except it’s also NOT because it’s her and the crowd and her working the crowd #also just. her magnetism. INSANE to be in the same room as it #and yet also the magic of it all is that my mind was racing during the concert putting the pieces together #but also I was just. there. Head empty no thoughts. singing songs I love with my friends #I’m always like ‘can Taylor give ME the same experience as this crowd’#which is egotistical but I’m very very critical and hard to please and it is in a way SO hard for me to have fun #like I try to work on it and be a good sport (at a wedding. At a party)#but I’m so critical with performers because I’m so quick to be like ‘there’s nothing here’#Because guess what: there usually I S N ‘ T #but Taylor is an exception. and so she is the most capable of taking me on a. Journey #Anyway not that it negated anything I’ve felt and still feel about her personal life and the pain of it and the way that fame #hurts her so deeply even while she’s so good at being famous. Or the way that this pop star life is not enough for her #because a pop star life is not enough for any human being #but that just was all part of the bittersweet experience #all of her humanity shines through and the humanity of her position #and the true vulnerability of it in a sense #anyway we stayed for a bit and listened to sweet nothing afterwards and it was perfect and bittersweet #!!!

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