EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift says ‘hola’ in Mexico City as she debuts I Forgot That You Existed and Sweet Nothing while Sabrina Carpenter ‘brings audience to tears’

Taylor Swift celebrated on stage Thursday night during a performance at Mexico City’s Foro Sol.

DailyMail.com spoke exclusively to concertgoer Nicole Garcia about the spectacular show she put on on her Eras Tour.

When Taylor came on stage, she said “hola” to her fans and “gracias” for being there, Garcia said. “She had a cute accent, it was fun,” she noted.

And then there was a shock to the crowd.

“She surprised us all with new songs that she didn’t have on her US setlist,” Nicole tells DailyMail.com.

“She debuted I Forgot That You Existed and Sweet Nothing on the show, which I didn’t expect. And she nailed them both. The audience went wild and Taylor flashed a mischievous smile like, “I got you, I shocked you!” And she did. She seemed to be in a good mood.’

It was Taylor’s first time performing both songs live.

Garcia was impressed that she also played instruments.

‘She also played a lot of guitar and then moved on to the piano with Sweet Nothing, it was impressive. She is truly multi-talented. And her dancing was good too. It was a very electric presentation,” she said.

Taylor was also playful with her backup dancers. At one point she put a black hat on one of the girls.’

Her sister Madeline Garcia added, “She pulled it off, she was incredible, and she really connected with the audience. She knew how to make the audience feel like she wanted to be in Mexico City.

“I loved it when she took a break to dance, she’s in great shape.”

And there was a new face on stage: Sabrina Carpenter. She was Swift’s new opener. Carpenter will be on the Eras Tour with Swift through March.

“Sabrina sang one of Selena Q’s songs, the Tex-Mex singer who was killed, and it was so beautiful, it was a nice nod to Mexico,” Madeline added.

She means Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known mononymously as Selena, an American Tejano singer who was shot dead in Texas in 1995. Jennifer Lopez played her in a movie.

‘The song was Dreaming Of You and she sang it in English. I saw a few tears in the audience as people waved their hands in the air. Selena is very big in Mexico City.

“Sabrina was so cute, she had on a strapless outfit with boots and she really gave it her all, she was a great opener for Taylor.”

Swift has three more shows in Mexico City before taking some time to relax.

The star will perform at the Foro Sol in Mexico City until August 27.

The starting price for the shows is now an astounding $12,000.

This comes after Isaac Jarman, a longtime fan, claimed he sold his concert ticket for $14,000 to pay for his college tuition.

Swift wrapped up the first U.S. leg of the Eras Tour earlier this month with six shows in Los Angeles.

She then has more shows in South America in November, before heading to Japan in February.

The Eras Tour continues to break records and generate unprecedented sums of money in the areas where it stops.

The tour, which sees Swift, 33, review hits from her 17-year career, is on track to “reach an expected gross profit of $2.2 billion from North American ticket sales alone,” TIME reported Wednesday.

The numbers would earn the Shake It Off singer the highest-grossing tour ever, surpassing the $939 million earned by Elton John on his The Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, the outlet said.

Swift would have plenty of time and places to update the numbers as she is expected to be at least seven months on the road from when she is expected to reach the milestone.

The Grammy winner has greatly influenced the economies of the twenty cities he has visited, boosting travel, transportation, lodging and local businesses, as TIME reported that the tour is expected to generate $5 billion in consumer spending.

The Federal Reserve reported last month that the tour has been a boost to national tourism.

Local businesses made more money on Swift’s opening night in Glendale, Arizona than they did for Super Bowl LVII earlier this year, TIME reported, citing that in a business sense, Swift’s concerts were the equivalent of two to three Super Bowls a weekend. the past five months.

Swift hit the road in Glendale last March for the tour, which features a 44-song setlist of her hits, taking in a total of 53 shows across Philadelphia, Chicago and Seattle, among others, before her first performance in Los Angeles earlier this year. completed. month.

The West Reading, Pennsylvania-born star has also added dates in major cities like Indianapolis, New Orleans and Toronto, as a result of the overwhelming demand.

The Cardigan singer revealed in June that her tour would go international next year with concerts in Asia, Australia and Europe, with dates through November 2024.

The singer has also seen a significant spike in her music sales during the trek, with streaming totals up nearly 80 percent since the tour began in March.

The Anti-Hero artist’s shows have attracted a number of celebrities, including Drew Barrymore, Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, Mariska Hargitay, Selena Gomez, Billy Joel, Paul Rudd, Emma Stone, Miles Teller, and Reese Witherspoon.

A number of industry experts have expressed their views to the publication on the massive success of the tour and the reasons behind it.

Industry analyst Alice Enders said the singer’s tour couldn’t have come at a better time as a restless public is ready to spend money following the confining years of the coronavirus pandemic.

“We’re in an experience economy where people crave going out and participating in social events,” Enders, a former senior economist at the World Trade Organization, told the publication.