Taylor Swift Lights Up Tokyo for First Night of '1989 World Tour'
Although we weren’t lucky enough to be at the Tokyo Dome, USA Today was and reported the two-hour, 18-song concert track-by-track … and it sounds like Swifties are will be in for quite an amazing night at each stop.
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Taylor opened with “Welcome to New York,” the lead track on 1989 and she went on to perform every single song on it, plus two of its bonus cuts, “New Romantics” and “You Are in Love.”
According to USA Today, Taylor also changed up a few of her classics, like “I Knew You Were Trouble,” which got a super dark remix.
NEW VERSION OF IKYWT. RIP ME #1989TourTokyo pic.twitter.com/vJIoeYJwPQ
— Hardcore Swiftie (@Swift13Updates) May 5, 2015
And for “Out of the Woods,” two giant paper airplanes (which of course are referenced in the song) fly above the crowd.
*actually paper airplanes flying pic.twitter.com/tNiPTuV8Wn
— Taylor Swift Japan (@TSUpdateJPN) May 5, 2015
The entire set list for the opening night of the 1989 World Tour was:
1. Welcome to New York
2. New Romantics
3. Blank Space
4. I Knew You Were Trouble
5. I Wish You Would
6. How You Get the Girl
7. I Know Places
8. All You Had to Do Was Stay
9. You Are in Love
10. Clean
11. Love Story
12. Style
13. This Love
14. Bad Blood
15. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
16. Enchanted/Wildest Dreams
17. Out of the Woods
18. Shake It Off
And it wasn’t just the fans who had a great time on Tuesday night. Taylor expressed her “love” after wrapping her first night on the road:
The 1989 World Tour has officially started.
I love you. I love you. I love you.
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 5, 2015