‘France has always been a bit of an anomaly in terms of the music business but Taylor Swift is an exception.’‘France has always been a bit of an anomaly in terms of the music business but Taylor Swift is an exception.’
After previously seeing Swift perform in London, Glasgow, New York and Dublin – and meeting her briefly in London after being picked out of the crowd by Swift’s mother – McWilliams has spent a total of €255 for the Paris tickets and has been babysitting to pay for them. “To this day my love of Taylor Swift has been a cornerstone of many of my personal, and even professional, relationships,” she said.
Swift’s popularity has been a slow burn in France, where she gave her first concert in 2010. There was a touch of Emily in Paris, a 2012 song from her fourth studio album Red. Shot in Paris, it shows her as the quintessential American in Paris, writing postcards, walking on the Pont des Arts and visiting a patisserie as she meets a handsome stranger who approaches her in a cafe.She continued to associate the city with romance.