As Taylor Swift finished her shows in the U.S. Oct. 31 in Tampa, Florida, I couldn’t help but think “it’s so sad to think about the good times” I had on the 17th when she came to Arlington.

The whole ambiance within 1,000 yards of AT&T Stadium was “screaming color” and Taylor Swift lyrics. Fans wore signs of Swift’s cats’ faces, references to songs like “I Know Places” and poofy, handmade, splatter-painted tutus.

With an opening act of Vance Joy and a special performance of “Love Me Like You Do” with Ellie Goulding, Swift definitely made her mother’s favorite show unique. Including stunning vocals an entire octave from the recordings from the radio and shots of smoke in the air, Swift took her most iconic songs from her previous album “Red” (“I Knew You Were Trouble” and “We are never ever getting back together”) and brought them to party with “1989.” In her performance of “Blank Space,” Swift remixed the song mid-performance with an audio recording of her singing the word “Texas” as she reminded the crowd that “boys only want love if it’s torture.”

Even more memorable than those features was when Swift went over the top, as in Taylor Swift literally over the top of the audience on a rising, rotating stage during her finale of “Shake it Off,” featuring synchronized blue, green and pink flashing lights from the wristbands she provided to every seat and a pink frilly crop-top and shorts combo. Haters may hate, hate hate, but Swift certainly showed she can shake it off.

And that’s what she taught everyone to do. Swift spoke to the crowd like a big sister: “What’s even better than being cool is being happy,” she reminded teens. “The moment you take what people say to you and block it out … decide your own definition of cool and happy is the moment … you’re clean.”

But besides the lights, costumes and performances themselves, Swift presented a story. She showed the girl who finally is “living in a big old city” when she opened with “Welcome to New York.” Swift showed that she has had heartbreak, but she’s “Clean.” She reminded the crowd to recognize happiness as it happens when she sang the lyrics to “Enchanted:” “This night is flawless, don’t you let it go” mixed with “Wildest Dreams” on an almost alien-looking piano. She reflected on the girl she was when she performed “Fifteen” from her sophomore album. Ten years later, she left these shining words on the screens with her exit: “She lost him but found herself and somehow that was everything.”

And somehow that concert was everything: exciting, raw, reflective, and overall, impressive. That night was flawless, and there’s no way I imagine anyone could let it go.

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