Never meet your heroes,” the saying goes. While I can’t say that I met Taylor Swift, her Eras Tour performance made me and an audience of 30,000 feel like they had, and the meeting was enchanted.

“Never meet your heroes,” the saying goes. While I can’t say that I met Taylor Swift, her Eras Tour performance made me and an audience of 30,000 feel like they had, and the meeting was enchanted.

The masses of fans packed into Stadion Letzigrund in Zurich on Tuesday afternoon under the beating summer sun, well ahead of the evening showtime. It was the first of Swift’s two shows in the Swiss city.

The Eras Tour is the first musical phenomenon Swift has embarked on since 2018 – before the pandemic. Since then, she released three new albums – as well as another one, The Tortured Poet’s Department (TTPD), during the tour in April.