(1 Aug 2024)
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Warsaw, Poland – 1 August 2024
1. Various of Taylor Swift fans walking and queuing
2. SOUNDBITE, (English) Inge Wijers, fan:
"Hi, I’m from the Netherlands. I traveled here because we didn’t get tickets to Amsterdam. So we tried different other cities and well we got tickets in Warsaw and we made it like a trip. So we’ve been for a few days in Warsaw now and we’ve had a really good time and now we’re going to see Taylor. So yeah."
3. Various of fans posing and taking photos
4. SOUNDBITE (English), Inge Wijers, fan:
"I want to dance, I want to have fun with, thank you! I want to have fun with my friends, with the other Swifties, I just want to have such a good time."
5. Fans wearing "friendship" bracelets
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Una Eglite, fan:
"It’s actually the closest we could have gotten. We tried getting tickets in Stockholm, but I spent the whole day trying to get tickets to Stockholm and it didn’t get them, so Poland was the second option."
7. Eglite shows her bracelets
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Una Eglite, fan:
"Yeah, we finally grew up listening to her, and I feel like it’s some kind of a check mark how I saw her, because she’s so huge right now, especially."
9. People in a queue
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Chetrari, fan:
"She’s a remarkable artist. She does a lot of extremely influential songs. She’s a role model for a lot of people."
11. Various of people standing still as sound of sirens markes Warsaw Uprising Anniversary
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Esmira Kuzhakhmetova, fan:
"We’re from Kazakhstan, but currently we’re studying in Czech Republic, so when we heard that Taylor has announced an Eras Tour in Europe, we decided to join."
13. Esmira in a queue
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Esmira Kuzhakhmetova, fan:
"So it feels like she gets us, like she writes songs about some special moments, some emotions that we experience all the time, so it’s really special for us."
15. Various of people singing and dancing in front of Polish National Stadium as concert goes
STORYLINE:
Taylor Swift warned fans who traveled to her concert in Warsaw on Thursday to expect loud sirens in the afternoon honoring a key World War II anniversary.
When the moment came, many of the fans who arrived for the concert also stood in tribute.
The Polish capital held observances to mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, a 63-day revolt by Polish insurgents after five years of brutal Nazi German occupation. The entire city stops and alarm sirens sound every year on Aug. 1 at the exact time when the revolt was launched.
Thousands of ticket-holders, many traveled to Warsaw from afar, were in the area of the stadium early ahead of the evening performance.
While some fans took place, their mood was celebratory at getting to hear Swift perform — while the ceremonies for the war anniversary were somber in tone. Swift is performing for three consecutive nights in Warsaw.
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