What I have found over the last 2 years and mainly in the 6 months or so leading up to the start of The RED Tour is that when you look back through various performances at award shows and other events is that what Taylor wears for the performance or how the song is performed directly links back to how we all saw the first night of The RED Tour unfold in Omaha, Nebraska on March 13 2013. I shall give you a few examples then refer back to them.
Starting from the top we have Taylor performing I Knew You Were Trouble at the 2013 Brit Awards in London late February 2013 and Taylor performing 22 for UK's Let's Dance for Comic Relief.
At the Brit Awards we are first shown how Taylor performs IKYWT on The RED Tour. Although her white ball gown is not as gold and sparkly as we see on tour, the basic dress is the same. Taylor's black jumpsuit for her mid song surprise change which we know she loves to do remains unchanged throughout the tour. IKYWT is performed with the back up dancers and music is the same as on The RED Tour. While watching the video you will notice that Taylor hits the same high note, changes costumes, and has musical pause before the high note as on The RED Tour. Her backup dancers also have a very similar routine as to what they do on tour.
Taylor's performance of 22 doesn't have quite so many comparisons to The RED Tour as IKYWT does but there as still some very much worth noting down. The biggest one would be Taylor's top. Her beautiful white lace, elbow length sleeved top is not one she has worn once or twice on The RED Tour, but it is part of her opening performance outfit for the first few months of The RED Tour before she started to change it up a bit but the lace top has still been worn for the opening performance of other concerts since. Some of the background graphics are very similar to the ones that play on the big screen behind Taylor while she is performing 22 each night on the tour.
Other noteworthy performances that shed light into The RED Tour:
-American Music Awards Nov 2012: Taylor performed IKYWT that night and although the costumes and music are not as similar as the Brit Awards, the basic concept of what The RED Tour performance is going to look like is there on the stage.
-MTV European Music Awards in Frankfurt, Germany Nov 2012: Taylor the poor girl had a cold while on this Europe/UK promo tour but still delivered an amazing performance of We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. This performance was very much circus themed and Taylor continued that theme into The RED Tour.
Now that I have covered what The RED Tour looked like, I will come back to the present and look towards a tour based off an album which hasn't been announced yet.
So predicting what the new tour will look like is impossible without the new album to get a bit of inspiration from but we know that Taylor's next tour will be as spectacular as the last 3 tours. I can see the theme being more towards the grownup theme of The RED Tour compared to the fairy tale themes of Speak Now and Fearless. I see the elaborate stage setting of The RED Tour continuing and still having a pit for the next tour along with continuing to perform on the B Stage acoustically. Surprise or wild card songs? Yes I see Taylor continuing something along those lines but maybe not doing the nightly changing song on the B Stage but on the main stage again and bringing back a performance from a previous tour. The possibilities are endless for what Taylor will do on stage for the next tour.
I will leave you with this thought,
Taylor right now while reading this before the new album is even announced will be busy planning what the new tour will look like while waiting to see our response to the new album to decide what songs to perform and what order.
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