Taylor Swift was having a fiesta on stage when performing at Foro Sol in Mexico City on Thursday evening.
DailyMail.com spoke exclusively to concert goer Nicole Garcia about the spectacular show she put on for her Eras Tour.
When Taylor came on stage, she said ‘hola’ to her fans and ‘gracias’ for being there, said Garcia. ‘She had a cute accent, it was fun,’ she noted. ‘She also said, “Bienvenidos esta noche, gracias chicos, los amo México,” which translates to welcome tonight, thank you guys, I love Mexico.’
And then there was a shock to the crowd.
‘She surprised us all with new songs that she didn’t have on her US set list,’ Nicole tells DailyMail.com.
‘She debuted I Forgot That You Existed and Sweet Nothing at the show which I was not expecting. And she nailed them both. The crowd went totally bananas and Taylor flashed a mischievous smile, like, “I got you, I shocked you!” And she did. She seemed to be in a great mood.’
Hola Mexico: Taylor Swift was having a fiesta on stage when performing at Foro Sol in Mexico City on Thursday evening.
Gracias: DailyMail.com spoke exclusively to concert goer Nicole Garcia about the spectacular show she put on for her Eras Tour. When Taylor came on stage, she said ‘hola’ to her fans and ‘gracias’ for being there, said Garcia
It was Taylor’s first time performing either track live.
Garcia was impressed that she played instruments as well.‘She also played a lot of guitar and then went over to the piano for Sweet Nothing, it was impressive. She really is multi-talented. And her dancing was good too. It was a very electric presentation,’ she said.
‘Taylor was playful with her back up dancers, too. At one point she put a black hat on one of the girls.’
Her sister Madeline Garcia added, ‘She killed it, she was incredible, and she really bonded with the audience, she knew how to make the crowd feel like she wanted to be in Mexico City.
‘I loved it when she broke off to dance a bit, she is in great shape.’
And there was a new face on stage: Sabrina Carpenter. She was Swift’s new opener. Carpenter will be with Swift on the Eras Tour through March.
Drama queen: ‘She had a cute accent, it was funny,’ she noted. Seen here in a lavender gown
No way! And then there was a shock to the crowd. ‘She surprised us all with new songs that she didn’t have on her US set list,’ Nicole tells DailyMail.com
NEW: ‘She debuted I Forgot That You Existed and Sweet Nothing at the show which I was not expecting. And she nailed them both. The crowd went totally bananas and Taylor flashed a mischievous smile, like, “I got you, I shocked you!” And she did. She seemed to be in a great mood,’ said the fan
‘Sabrina sang one of Selena Q’s songs, the Tex Mex singer who was killed, and it was so beautiful, it was a nice nod to Mexico,’ added Madeline.
She means Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known mononymously as Selena, an American Tejano singer who was shot dead in 1995 in Texas. Jennifer Lopez played her in a movie.
‘The song was Dreaming Of You and she sang it in English. I saw a few tears in the audience as people waved their hands in the air. Selena is very big in Mexico City.
‘Sabrina was so cute, she had some little strapless outfit on with boots and she really gave it her all, she was a good opener for Taylor.’
Swift has three more shows in Mexico City before she takes some time out to relax.
The star will be performing at the Foro Sol in Mexico City until August 27.
New: And there was a new face on stage: Sabrina Carpenter. She was Swift’s new opener. Carpenter will be with Swift on the Eras Tour through March
Never forget Selena! ‘Sabrina sang one of Selena Q’s songs, the Tex Mex singer who was killed, and it was so beautiful, it was a nice nod to Mexico,’ added concert goer Madeline Garcia. ‘The song was Dreaming Of You and she sang it in English. I saw a few tears in the audience as people waved their hands in the air. Selena is very big in Mexico City’
We heart you: ‘Sabrina was so cute, she had some little strapless outfit on and she really gave it her all, she was a good opener for Taylor,’ she added
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The starting ticket price for the shows is now an astonishing $12k.
This comes after longtime fan Isaac Jarman claimed he sold his concert ticket for $14,000 to pay for his college tuition.
Swift wrapped up the first US leg of the Eras Tour earlier this month with six shows in Los Angeles.
Then she has more shows in South America in November, before going to Japan in February.
The Eras Tour continues to break records and generate unprecedented sums of money in the areas where it stops.
The tour, in which Swift, 33, runs through hits from her 17-year career, is on pace to make ‘a projected gross of $2.2 billion in North American ticket sales alone,’ TIME reported on Wednesday.
The numbers would give the Shake It Off singer the most-profitable tour ever, surpassing the $939 million Elton John made on his The Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, according to the outlet.
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Swift would have plenty of time and places to pad the numbers, as she’s slated to be on the road for at least seven months from the time when she’s projected to hit the milestone.
The Grammy-winner has massively infused the economies of the 20 cities it has stopped in, boosting travel, transportation, lodging and local businesses, as TIME reported that the tour is slated to prompt $5 billion in consumer spending.
The Federal Reserve reported last month that the tour has been a boost to national tourism.
Local businesses made more money on Swift’s opening night in Glendale, Arizona surpasses than it did for Super Bowl LVII earlier this year, TIME reported, citing that in a business sense, Swift’s concerts have been the equivalent to two to three Super Bowls each weekend over the past five months.
Swift hit the road in Glendale this past March for the tour, which includes a 44-song setlist of her hits, sweeping through locales including Philadelphia, Chicago and Seattle in 53 total shows, prior to wrapping up its first leg in Los Angeles earlier this month.
The West Reading, Pennsylvania-born star has also added dates in major cities such as Indianapolis, New Orleans and Toronto, as result of the overwhelming demand.
The Cardigan vocalist in June revealed that her tour was going international next year for concerts in Asia, Australia and Europe, with dates extending through November of 2024.
The songstress has also seen a significant spike in her music sales amid the trek, with an almost 80 percent increase in streaming totals since the tour began in March.
The Anti-Hero artist’s shows have drawn a number of celebrities in attendance, including Drew Barrymore, Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, Mariska Hargitay, Selena Gomez, Billy Joel, Paul Rudd, Emma Stone, Miles Teller and Reese Witherspoon.
A number of industry experts weighed in to the publication on the tour’s massive success and the reasons behind it.
Industry analyst Alice Enders said that the singer’s tour couldn’t have come at a better time, as a restless public is willing to splurge following the restrictive years of the coronavirus pandemic.
‘We are in an experience economy where people crave going out and participating in social events,’ Enders, a one-time senior economist at the World Trade Organization, told the publication