At her Gillette Stadium show on July 27, Swift mentioned that she's been touring since she was 15. Now 28, that means she's had many years to connect with fans -- and grow up with them. "Seeing people grow up in the crowd, or in meet and greets and stuff, looking out and seeing somebody who I met when they were 10 and now they're a full-grown adult -- that is wild," she says. "Or somebody coming up to me and saying, 'I've been listening to your music since I was 12,' and, you know, now they're a grown up.
It's just never ever going to feel like, 'Oh yeah, that seems normal to me.' It's always going to seem deeply interesting and wild ... I definitely think that I tried to keep my expectations very realistic when it came to thinking, 'You know, I could be a phase for some people.' I just appreciate every moment, so when somebody comes up to me and says 'I'm still listening to your music,' to me that means that it's lasted through all the other phases in their lives."
Swift once performed "Wildest Dreams" acoustic at a Grammys event, and she brought that raw, impassioned version of the 1989 song to the Reputation Stadium Tour B-stage.
Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven on Netflix's Stranger Things, recently attended a Taylor Swift concert with her sisters Paige and Ava and got to meet the singer herself backstage. Millie, 14, posted on Saturday a selfie of herself with the pop star.
"Look what u made me do," she wrote.
Millie also shared many Instagram Story videos of herself and her family at the concert, showing them dancing and singing along to songs such as "Look What You Made Me Do" and "Bad Blood."
Taylor Swift once again dazzled an audience of thousands on Friday, as she took to the stage for her latest performance at the Mercedes-Benz stadium in Atlanta.
The 28-year-old American songstress showed off her lean physique in a slew of revealing ensembles during the concert, including a sequinned leotard and thigh-high split chain gown.
The DJ lost his case, and Taylor countersued for a single symbolic dollar to serve as an "example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts". She was consequently named one of Time magazine's "Silence Breakers" for their Person of the Year issue.
Since then, Taylor has been notably absent from public life, choosing to address her fans directly on stage during her Reputation Tour rather than giving interviews or posting on social media.
Before a performance of "Long Live" — a song she dedicates to her fans at every show — Taylor said we have "so, so, so much further to go" when it comes to how we as a society treat victims of sexual assault.