Taylor Swift Teared Up When Fans Surprised Her in Atlanta
Fans in Atlanta have set a new, very high bar for being a "good crowd" on the Eras Tour after two different stadiums full of them managed to bring Taylor Swift to tears on back-to-back nights this weekend. So, you know, keep that in mind if you have tickets to an upcoming show.
On Friday night, fans came together to light up the stadium with their cellphone lights during Taylor's performance of "Champagne Problems," turning the stands into an impromptu sea of stars, basically. It was legitimately beautiful:
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It was also, apparently, legitimately unexpected and moving for Taylor, who teared up while thanking the audience after the song.
"I don't even know what to say. I love you so much. That was beautiful," she said in what sounded like very genuine disbelief at what had just happened—which is pretty fair, since what had just happened was approximately 80,000 strangers spontaneously coming together to make a moment happen. "Who organized that? Did you guys just do that? What was the plan? That was so beautiful. Thank you. God, I love you. I'm out. That was really cool."
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Since there's no more valuable currency to a Swiftie than Taylor's happiness and approval, other fans naturally saw the TikTok videos of teary-eyed Taylor thanking the crowd and thought, "THAT. I NEED THAT." Enter: the Saturday night Atlanta crowd, saw the Friday night's crowd's ability to make Taylor's eyes glisten with tears and collectively answered, "hold our beer."
On Saturday night, a (presumably mostly) different 80,000 people recreated the cellphone lights/sea of twinkling stars stunt, but during a different song. Instead of showering her with this love during "Champagne Problems" (a song about a failed relationship that she wrote with ex Joe Alwyn), they did so during "Marjorie," a song about Taylor reflecting on memories of her grandmother after she died.
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Cue: Taylor tears.
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"How could you go and do that to me?" Taylor asked the crowd through a combination of laughter/still-almost-crying that only happens during moments of true emotional overwhelm. "It was a song about my grandmother who passed away. I just completely...Like my knees went weak, genuinely. Like, that physically, I physically felt that. It was so beautiful of you to do that."
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Does the first crowd to make Taylor so emotional she full-on ugly cries get a prize? 80,000 tear-stained, cat-hair covered, hand-written thank notes? Will she have the piano she plays on stage smashed and give every fan that night a splinter to remember the night? A song inspired by the accomplishment ("80,000 Teardrops on My Guitar"? "This Is Me Crying"? "I Need to Calm Down"? I could keep going, but I'll stop)? Let's raise the stakes since coordinating emotional flash mobs seems like it's becoming an Eras Tour ~thing~.
Source: Cosmopolitan
