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Watch Taylor Swift flirting with her audience in French #ParisTSTheErasTour
The idea that American and British performers touring Europe will attempt a few sentences in the local language has lasted long past the time when local audiences didn’t speak great English.
No one cares anymore. Except when it comes to Swift, who only had to speak one word, enchanté – literally “enchanted” but colloquially “good to meet you” – to get Parisians, who are normally too cool to go nuts, to go nuts. She continued in what sounded like a decent accent – something was très bien and something else was c’est magnifique – and the crowd just kept going crazy.
Some of the fans there were French and hadn’t had much of a chance to see Swift before this, but some came from other countries in Europe and others from the U.S. or Canada. It was a smart way to build energy, too. After Swift’s countdown clock hit zero, she opened with “Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince” and “Cruel Summer,” then gave herself a minute to stand still without letting the crowd’s energy fall. Then she went onward to “The Man” and “You Need to Calm Down,” which no one did.