“Melbourne, I am never going to forget tonight, you are unbelievable,” said Taylor Swift, after more than three hours onstage. The US superstar played to the biggest crowd of her career on Friday night, keeping 96,000 people at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in a near-constant state of pop music ecstasy. And she made a big announcement to the adoring fans. “This is the biggest show we have done on this tour, it’s the biggest show we have done on any tour ever,” she told them.
So devoted were the Swifties, they already knew the words. Two more surprise songs on the night were a moving rendition of You’re Losing Me, from her 2022 album Midnights, and Red, from ten years earlier. One of countless crowd-pleasing moments was when one of her dancers inserted some Aussie slang into We are Never Ever Getting Back Together. “Yeah, nah,” he sang in an Aussie twang.