“We have seen thousands of fans come to other stadiums across the country, in hopes to enjoy the concert from outside the stadium. “While we appreciate the enthusiasm of Taylor Swift’s fans, there are no authorized external standing or sitting areas and request that fans only come to Levi’s Stadium if they have a ticket,” the Santa Clara Police Department said in a statement.

Taylor Swift fans who didn't get tickets have been hanging out in parking lots and listening to the show throughout her Eras Tour, but Santa Clara police insist they won’t be tolerating any of that for next weekend’s shows.

High-elevation locations in the North Bay, East Bay, and Santa Clara may smell smoke (from Oregon!), and home and car air conditioning systems should be set to recirculate.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District declared another Spare the Air day for Friday, as Oregon’s Flat Fire continues to rage.

She turned up the romance even more on 2019’s Lover, but it was 2020’s folklore and its companion, evermore-ruminative, relatively lo-fi albums written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic-that earned her the Apple Music Award for Songwriter of the Year. Though 2017’s reputation might have been perceived as a gorgeously constructed piece of dramatic theater-its attendant heroes and villains all real-life characters from Swift's public feuds-all that spectacle proved an attention-grabbing cover for her most romantic album yet. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swift can own her narrative, thank you very much, while still retaining a lyrical elegance. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed Speak Now-which showed off her scathing wit-and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on 1989, her fifth album, titled after her birth year. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red.

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