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JAN MOIR: With all the Swifties, I wore my sequins in hope and defiance last night. And despite all that's happened, we were lifted by sheer joy
Last night I went to the Taylor Swift concert in London, the first she has performed since her three shows in Vienna were cancelled because of a terrorist threat.
These tragedies carry their own weight of heartbreak and inconsolable loss, but it seems particularly piercing that the cluster of malevolence should gather around Swift, a performer who has spread nothing but joy around the world since her Eras tour began in March 2023. Details of the putative attack in Vienna are horrifying: the Islamic State and al-Qaeda literature read by at least two of the arrested suspects, the explosives in their possession, the plans to move through the crowd with knives and God knows what else, killing ‘as many as possible’. I love Taylor's songs and her admirable, demented work ethic, which crested this month with the release of two new albums — The Tortured Poets Department and The Anthology — both written, recorded and made while she is in the middle of her worldwide Eras tour, performing on stage for three straight hours at every show.
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