Taylor Swift Takes Plunge on Eras Tour: Fans in Awe as Pop Star Dives into Stage and ‘Swims’
During her “Eras Tour” this weekend, Taylor Swift took to the front of the crowd, creating a viral video. Swift’s highly anticipated tour kicked off at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Friday. To illustrate her transition between her various “stars”, each of which are albums, she made several show-stopping transitions during her performance. On Twitter, footage from the second night of her tour showed the singer walking towards the edge of the stage as the sounds of the pool played in the background. She touched down on the main catwalk section after singing “Tim McGraw” from her debut album.
@domcielak Since when?? Where is that gold medal?? #glendaletstheerastour #taylorswift #tstheerastour #swifttok #dumador #snámh #fyp ♬ original sound – Depresseddom
From the crowd, she disappeared after jumping for the first time. To mark this smooth transition into a “new era”, the floor continued to light up and show a clip of the “Anti-Hero” singer floating. As the stage scenery mirrored an ocean wave, concertgoers gasped and applauded. Fans expressed their dismay at Swift’s stage dive and praised her move on social media. I have never seen anything as crazy as the diving. He caught me off guard LMAO, one fan tweeted. One fan shared a video of the concert on TikTok and said: #theerastour @taylorswift night one was the highlight.
How Taylor falls into the stage.
1. Part of the stage is opened to reveal a piece under the stage.
2. Taylor gets ready to jump, as you can see, there is a red light that tells her not to jump yet.
3. Taylor jumps when the light turns green. pic.twitter.com/B8LOZzPwkW— Jacnights 🌑🌙✨ (@jacnights13) March 19, 2023
During her set, Taylor Swift takes to the front of the stage leaving the crowd shocked and saddened
Fans were shocked when Taylor Swift dived to the front of the stage and swam during her Eras tour debut. Over the weekend, she launched her long-awaited Eras tour in Arizona. Taylor Swift’s 44-song set wasn’t the only thing fans were talking about, as the star certainly brought theatrics to the performance. While performing, Anti-Hero, 33, dives head first from the stage and leaves three gaps in the floor. In a spectacular performance of a profound disappearance, Taylor left the audience in awe, with many sharing their horror on social media. With fans tweeting at the moment, one even joked that the multi-award winning star was now aiming for an Olympic medal. The first two performances of Taylor’s tour were held in Arizona on Friday and Saturday, and many in the audience caught the dive on camera. The country-turned-pop star was seen walking towards a rectangular gap in the stage wearing a flowing dress. After that, she goes into proper diving form before leaping across the stage in a structured fashion. During the dive, a booming sound is heard over the stadium and a graphic of her swimming under the stage is projected onto the ground before she returns to the stage to sing songs from her Midnights album.
In response to the unexpected moment, one shocked Twitter user wrote: ‘Excuse ME TAYLOR SWIFT JUST DIVED HEAD CHEAD IN THE STAGE WHAT’. An optimist joked: ‘As well as being a 12-time Grammy winner, a doctor, a director, and one of our most famous musicians, Taylor Swift wants to win the swimming Olympics. Another said the diving was the most interesting thing he had ever seen, ‘I was so caught off guard LMAO,’ he said. Taylor has yet to announce the international dates for her highly anticipated tour, but she will wrap up the US leg on August 9 in Los Angeles. With more than three hours of singing every night, she is sure to make her fans happy too as she performs 44 songs every night. It’s no surprise that Taylor’s set list has been so long since she’s been busy since she last performed in 2018, shortly after releasing Fame. She has since released Lover, Folklore, and Evermore, as well as re-recording Red and Fearless. Glendale, Arizona, was delighted to be chosen as the area to kick off Taylor’s tour – and even the Mayor, renaming the weekend ‘Swift City’ in her honour.
I explained this on tiktok and many people were attacking me because I destroyed the “magic” and now they are disappointed. Girll did you all think she was floating up under the stage??? 😭😭💀
— fabian – stan lover 💓 (@Taltos_Dinosaur) March 19, 2023
I still can’t believe this. when I was keeping up with live tweets and saw “taylor just DOVE under the stage and swam away!” I had no fucking way
— lindsay 💜🕰 6/4!! (taylor version) (@ontheebeachers) March 20, 2023
Also, she stayed downstairs bc she changed her outfit for the midnight act there and went back again after the interlude. Bc I thought she actually went to the main stage lmao
— ✨️GAB✨️ (@gblndchh) March 21, 2023
If you look closely at the videos, when she jumps some kind of sparkles/glitter flies near her shoes. I’m confused where that comes from?
— me (@montagemel) March 20, 2023