The American singer starts her European tour with a concert at La Défense Arena on Thursday.
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They want to be as close as possible to their star. Taylor Swift fans arrive with sleeping bags and blankets to join the dozen tents unfolded in the middle of the security barriers in front of La Défense Arena in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine). The American megastar, whose last album sold a million copies in one day, begins a highly anticipated European tour on Thursday May 9 in this venue in the Paris region.
These “Swifties”, as the singer’s fans are nicknamed, did not hesitate to brave the cold day and night to get the best place. There aren’t many people there though, Coralie believes: “I don’t know why I thought that, like in the United States or Latin America, there were going to be a lot of people. They camped weeks, even months in advance”, explains the one who arrived Wednesday morning. She is the tenth in this queue “while I was already number 200 in campers for Indochina”she explains.
Maybe it’s the gray sky’s fault, it’s not hot in Paris. Khaïs is wrapped up in a survival blanket: “I don’t know if it’s of much use. I was really fooled by the weather.” But for Taylor Swift, he is ready for anything: “Already, she’s the first artist to become a billionaire only through her music, so that says it all. She has this talent. She devotes herself to music and I honestly find that admirable.”
Return trips to the hotel
To pass the time, these young people sing and also make “friendship bracelets”, the friendship bracelets of Swifties. And then, in turn, everyone goes back and forth to their hotel room. Because, like Mandy, everyone has rented accommodation. “I use the hotel room to keep all my things and take my shower, because contrary to what people think: we take showers, we are very clean, we don’t stink!”
Cleanliness has a price, counting the ticket, transport, rental, some will spend 500 euros for an evening.