28/06/2024 - NEWS - Image as Taylor Swift took to the stage in Dublin this evening on the opening night in Ireland of her Eras Tour. Photograph Nick Bradshaw / The Irish Times. “It’s been a long time coming,” she sings, having materialised amid a blur of peacock-bright dancers, wearing a rainbow jumpsuit that sparkles in the soft evening light.
“Oh hi,” she says before diving into Cruel Summer, her dreamy epic that shines amid the gathering gloom. Then it’s headlong into her 17 years as a songwriter, as she moves from the high-school angst of You Belong With Me and Love Story, from Fearless, to her masterpiece Red and the jilted fury on I Knew You Were Trouble and All Too Well – her masterful lament which she stretches out to a seismic 10 minutes .
“Irish people out are such good storytellers, the folklore from Ireland is unmatched ... It may be 50 per cent you just have the best accents,” Swift says before uncorking one of the highlights of the set – a thunderously hushed Champagne Problems.