TAYLOR Swift had 76,000 besotted fans and their parents at “Hello Sydney” when she opened her 1989 World Tour at ANZ stadium tonight.
After a week of playing “guess where Taylor is?” there was no escaping her larger-than-life presence.
The highly choreographed, fast-paced spectacular dazzled with energy and panache, with the doe-eyed sweetheart now vamping in her incarnation as fierce pop vixen. She knows where every camera is and just how to use them to smile, wink, hair flick or emote for the big screens conveying all the action to the cavernous stadium.
Swift is the queen of the big gesture and while they often feel automatic, she gets away with it because the young girls who make up the vast majority of her fans lap up every Taylor moment. As far as the big stadium show goes, this was one of the best, beautifully produced and executed by a 25-year-old superstar.