Taylor Swift is energized and loving life right now, when, to be fair, others in her position would be on the lookout for an extended beach getaway.
Swift’s ongoing The Eras Tour has completed its first lap of North American stadiums, and will return to the road from next month, beginning with a visit to Brazil followed by a full international schedule in 2024.
Not one to waste a moment of precious time, the pop superstar has moved forward The Eras Tour Concert Film, and was on hand for the world premiere at The Grove in Los Angeles on Wednesday (Oct. 11), where she delivered a three-minute speech and gave shoutouts to her band, dancers, and, of course, Swifties.
“I’ve always had fun doing this. I can’t believe I get to do music as a career. That’s crazy,” she said at the top. “I’ve always had so much fun doing it. I’ve never had this much fun in my life as I have had on The Eras Tour. It is far and away just the most electric experience of my life.”
Guests in the room included celebrities Rachel Zegler, Maren Morris, Simu Liu, Julia Garner and Adam Sandler, according to The Hollywood Reporter, as well as Swift’s mother Andrea.
Every person in the theater “has been hand selected and handpicked and invited to this night because you’ve shown some type of extra support for this tour,” she explained, “and I appreciate that more than you could possibly know.”
And what type of characters pique TayTay’s interest? “I’m always looking out for people with elevated levels of passion, incredible senses of humor on the internet, attention to detail. These things are very important to me.”
The Eras Tour movie rolls out Thursday, and is already a hit. According to a press release from AMC Theatres, her film has broken all existing records for single-day advance ticket sales revenue in the chain’s 103-year history with $26 million in the first 24 hours of on-sale.
The tour itself has been a box office juggernaut. Billboard’s North American projection nearly doubled earlier expectations at $591 million, just one piece of a 146-date mega-tour spanning five continents.
“We did this show rain or shine, in sickness and in health, no matter what was going on in our lives,” she told guest at the L.A. premiere, “and we did it with a grin on our face because what greeted us on the other side.”
Watch Swift address her fans at the world premiere below.
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