How to Swiftie

Hello everyone! This is Caroline AKA a die-hard Swiftie. After purchasing tickets 8 months ago, I got to attend a Taylor Swift concert with my bestie AKA my sister. I'm sure all of you are jealous of me, and you have every right to be because we had the best time. I am going to kindly give all of you a tutorial on how to attend a Taylor Swift concert so that you might have a chance at living the dream like me.

P.S. This is more pictures than I have ever taken in a single day. I drove myself nuts.

Step 1. Check the weather report. Plan your outfit accordingly.


Step 2. Double check that you have your tickets, details, times, and locations correct


Step 3. Start your day with a healthy breakfast (poptart not pictured)


Step 4. Listen to TayTay's opening artists on repeat. Memorize their hit song so that you can sing along.


Step 5. Help your sister pick out the appropriate concert outfit. Try on at least 4. Debate over makeup/hair/shoes to wear and be as high maintenance as possible. (All of this while blasting the entire 1989 cd)


Step 6. Selfies!


Step 7. Write on your hands in true Taylor fashion. Instagram her and secretly hope that she notices you.


Step 8. Check the forecast again (another forecast at 3pm stated that there was 100% chance of thunderstorms during the concert. I was too depressed to get that picture.)


Step 9, More beautiful music from the opening acts.


Step 10. Go back and listen to all your old Swiftie favorites.


Step 11. Find a nostalgic/inspirational/appropriate lyrics and write all over yourself. (the purpose of this is because you are pretending to be Taylor. For those of you not fortunate enough to be one of her biggest fans, in previous tours she would write different song lyrics down her arm for every show)


Step 12. Kiss the feet of your amazing parents who are willing to drive you into the city so you don't have to pay the ridiculous parking or find a train/bus in the wee hours of the morning after the concert.


Step 13. Get to the stadium! More selfies! Security! Get your commemorative Taylor Swift light-up bracelet!


Step 14. Take it all in.


Step 15. Get to your seats and realize that they're not in the nosebleed section. You can actually see!


Step 16. Last selfie. I promise.



Step 17. Fall in love with the opening acts.

 

Step 18. Try to imitate Haim's faces.

Step 19. Take a moment to be thankful because the entire night was 75 degrees without a cloud in the sky. 

Step 20. FREAK. OUT because Queen Taylor came onstage. Oh you guys. They finished setting up and the entire stadium went dark and quiet. Then the music started and everyone's bracelets started lighting up. People were screaming. Then she was on stage. People went berserk. All she had to do was pose looking over her shoulder and 55,000 people would go crazy. I stopped taking a bunch of pictures because I wanted to live in the moment and not spend the entire time on my phone. Also, the glare was bad. I did get a few pictures though :)

      

The third picture is all of the glowy bracelets. They would light up with the beat. The last picture is Taylor on her runway which lifted up into the air and spun around. 

A few highlights from the show. 

-A remix of Love Story on the elevated runway

-Guest star Andy Grammar singing Honey I'm Good

-The first time she got onstage and sang Welcome to New York

-Everyone dancing during Shake It Off

-Her telling us that we could call her TayTay

-Cute videos between songs featuring her cats

-Incredible dancing/ special effects including fireworks

-Taylor being Taylor

Step 21. Fight the madness/traffic of 55,000 people trying to leave on the same street along with 20,000 parents trying to find and pick up their tween. 

Step 22. Incorporate Taylor lyrics into your everyday life for the next couple of weeks. 

"Today was a fairytale" "I was enchanted to meet you" "I had the best day with you (and Callie) today" "This night is sparkling, don't you let it go"