Concert Review: Taylor Swift - 1989 Tour (Dallas)

If you ever get a chance to see that Taylor Swift live, you should absolutely do it. Homegirl knows how to put on a SHOW.  I've been looking forward to seeing her again since I saw the Red tour in LA 2 years ago, and after seeing her this past Saturday at Cowboy Stadium, that 2 years of anticipation was well worth it. 

Some general observations from the show - 

• Her fandom knows no bounds! I saw what I assume was a 3-year-old girl (but I'm really bad with child ages... she might have been 6 for all I know) emphatically singing every lyric of Blank Space to two middle-aged security guards breaking it downnnnn to Shake It Off... and everything in between. 
• The best signs I saw - 2 huge light-up cut-outs of her cat's faces. 
• The weirdest costume I saw - some dude inexplicably dressed up like a giraffe. 
• The number of T Swift costume changes - approximately 10.
• She only played 4.5 non-1989 songs - Fifteen, Love Story, I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Getting Back Together, and a little bit of Enchanted... I kind of wish she would have played a few more. Also, We Are Never Getting Back Together was legit unrecognizable at first - she did a very cool/different/punk rock-y version (that I def like better than the original). 
• Every song is a full-on production and her stage is a crazy moving robotic catwalk that is amazing. 
• She has the best hair. 
• Ellie Goulding was the surprise guest and they sang Love Me Like You Do and it was fantastic. 

• In addition to being an amazing songwriter/performer/superstar extraordinaire, homegirl is also very well-spoken and inspirational. Numerous times throughout the show she gave motivational speeches (main takeaways: don't let bullies who write mean things on social media get you down ... keep singing/dancing... it's better to be happy than cool.) Let's just say these speeches brought one of my close friends (who shall remain nameless) to tears on 2 different occasions at a recent show. 
• It's hard to pick a favorite performance... I think my top 2 were Out of the Woods and Shake It Off. For Out of the Woods her dancers had these huge paper airplanes flying over the crowd (from the lyric "... Baby like we stood a chance, two paper airplanes flying, flying, flying..."). 

Basically, it was one of the best shows I've ever been to and I already can't wait until I get to see her again (probably in approximately 2 years). :) 

xoxo, 

Annie.