GLENDALE, Ariz. — Taylor Swift stood onstage at State Farm Stadium, lights bouncing off her bedazzled leotard, and absorbed the sound of the 70,000 or so fans in front of her.
"I don't know how to process all of this and the way it's making me feel right now," she said. "I can't even go into how much I missed you because there's no way to verbalize it."
What Swift could put into words Friday night as she kicked off the Eras tour — her first road show since 2018, since the beginning of the pandemic, since the release of four separate studio albums (and rerecorded versions of two older LPs) — was how this whole thing would go. "Tonight we're gonna be going on an adventure," she told the audience. "We're gonna be exploring the last 17 years of music that I've been lucky enough to make and you've been kind enough to care about."
