Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Taylor Swift brings so many nice things to Heinz Field

- By Scott Mervis

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Taylor Swift ended her concert Tuesday night singing “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” “Reputation,” the focus of and while the song might be about love, respect Tuesday’s show, is another wild and interperso­nal drama, we can say ride, a jet-setting, alcohol-fueled one, with a for sure that Taylor Swift has nice things. few different guys in the mix and a couple

Some of those things showed up in a detours to address the haters. shiny fleet of trucks carrying a concert production That explains the snakes, a running reputation into Heinz Field that was the most tour theme taking a direct shot at elaborate we’ve seen since U2’ nemesis Kim Kardashian West mockings 360 Tour in 2011. It took 80 trucks, in her on social media with a snake emoji. A fact, many stylized with her image, to haul giant inflatable cobra loomed over her and the 110-foot tall main stage and two sizable the dancers while she shed her anger on satellite stages in the opposing end zone. “Look What You Made Me Do.” It takes a big stage to hold a big talent. It came with a Tiffany Haddish onscreen And the 28-year-old mega-star from cameo for the part where fans are Reading, Pa., has proven that many times told that the the “old Taylor” over in a career that started quaintly and can’t come to the phone -- & ldquo; countrifie­d, in flowered dresses, at 16. Overbecaus­e she’s dead.” the last decade, as she’s gravitated Hailey Naberezmy, center, 7, and Ella toward electropop and EDM, her romantic Denove, right, 7, both of Pine Township, life has been like a Hershey Park rollercoas­ter dance together as they tailgate before the that propels her album narratives Taylor Swift concert. (Stephanie Strasburg/ and keeps her fans with their hands in thePost-Gazette) air. Tuesday’s eye-popping spectacle,

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