Taylor Swift became the first solo artist to perform at Wembley Stadium in London eight times in a single tour, surpassing the previous record reportedly held by Michael Jackson, who performed at the iconic London arena seven times during the Bad World Tour in 1988.
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00:00London, welcome to the Aerith Tour!
00:13I'm standing here looking at 92,000 people
00:19who all put in an extensive amount of effort and planning and energy into being here tonight.
00:31I love having you here tonight.
00:38So it definitely was a little bit scary for us in deciding whether or not we wanted to come.
00:42I think it's absolutely terrible. I think it's a great thing that they cancelled it to keep everybody safe.
00:48And I'm really happy that as we've been here we've seen so much security, that they upped the security,
00:53they made more restrictions, so hopefully we're just staying while everybody's safe.
00:56I, for one, was so frightened that I thought about saying, I'm not going to go with you to London.
01:01So a little bit of time passed, there were no new threats, and so I feel safe and comfortable now here in London.
01:08We were unsure what the outcome would have been for this concert,
01:13but I think now we're pretty confident that it's going to go quite well.
01:17It is kind of scary. I kind of feel on edge, since it's in London and it's Saturday, the busiest day.
01:23I know it'll be fine, but I'm just sad for the people who didn't get to go.
01:27If today was cancelled, I'd be there particularly probably, but I know after I still have my life,
01:32and there wasn't that risk of closing that, I hope in the future maybe she can head back there and perform for them again.
01:39That'd be good for them.
01:40I think Taylor's done the right thing of not saying and drawing too much attention to what's happened.
01:45Obviously the people who are doing it, you don't want to give them any spotlight.
01:50I think it's great that she's just gone on, moved on.
01:52There's no point in not carrying on with things just because people make threats and things.
01:58You just have to continue to live your life, and I think it's great that she's just continued to do the shows and make people happy.
02:03I go to football all the time, and the season ticket holder.
02:07The security services have this done well, and you can't live in fear.
02:13You can't live under fear, because then they win.
02:17I wouldn't have let me foot in the door if it wasn't for this crowd.
02:21But do you know the atmosphere in Austria in terms of the fact that people went out in the streets,
02:27and still enjoyed it, still made the most of it.
02:30It's amazing to see.
02:33I did love seeing everyone going out on the streets and just singing, and just having joy and love,
02:37and that's what it's really about, and we just can't let terrorism win.
02:40Seeing all the large crowds together, singing Long Live in the middle of the beautiful squares,
02:44and all the local shops, letting people eat for free if they had proof of tickets and things like that,
02:50it's just so heartwarming to see all the people come together in such a scary, scary situation.
02:55Long live the walls we crashed through.
02:59Had the time of my life with you.
03:04Long, long live.
03:06It's nice being part of a community, people getting together, and especially the people that were doing that.
03:11It's sweet to see people coming together in the face of something like that,
03:15and still making things that people can enjoy, even if it's not quite the same.
03:18Taylor Swift fans are unlike others.
03:22We're unbreakable.
03:24I think it's a bit, it's girlhood, isn't it?
03:27You know, you're going out, you're trading bracelets, everyone's so friendly to each other,
03:30like we just met some people from America in our hotel,
03:32and they were just so happy to be here, trade bracelets and have fun,
03:35because we're all here for the same reason.
03:37I love her song Marjorie, and it says,
03:39don't ever yield too much power that you forget to be polite,
03:43and I think that that phrase, that lyric, she does that.
03:47She's polite, yet powerful, and that's what we need.
03:50There's a lot of down in the world, you know, there's a lot of polarisation,
03:54and I don't see that from here.
03:57People are here to have fun and enjoy themselves.
03:59Yep.
04:00A fun woman and her team are bringing communities together.
04:05I can't drop that. This is amazing.
04:08After tonight, when you hear these songs,
04:12you're going to think about us,
04:14and the memories we make here tonight at the ERA's tour together,
04:17at Wembley Stadium!
04:21I'll be your host this evening.
04:23My name is Taylor, thank you for travelling with us here at the ERA's tour.