Taylor Swift Lets Her 'Reputation' Speak for Itself as She Launches World Tour

Jim Louvau May 9, 2018 8:08AM

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Taylor Swift's opening night of her Reputation tour drew a record of almost 60,000 fans to the University of Phoenix Stadium, surpassing the mark of 56,524 set there by One Direction in 2014.

Pop superstar Taylor Swift's fifth world tour has been 14 months in the planning, she said Tuesday night. The University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale was chosen because it was available for two weeks of rehearsal, but Phoenix also seems symbolic of the ebb and flow of the singer's career. “A couple of years ago, someone called me a snake on social media," she said, referring to a feud with Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian. "I got really low for a time because of that.” – Jim Louvau and Stuart Warner

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