'The Best Day' for fans as Taylor Swift starts weekend concerts at Gillette

FOXBORO - It's her, hi! After months of anticipation and a "great war" for tickets last fall, Taylor Swift finally opened her first show of The Eras Tour at Gillette Stadium Friday night.

And Taylor was a hit.

"I seen the concert, craziest production I ever seen. There was flames, smoke blowing. I was like, hold on," said one audience member.  

In line with its name, the tour takes audience members through Swift's several albums over her nearly 20-year career. Tickets were nearly impossible to get because of high demand, so when the day came to go to the show, Swifties were ready.

"Not only did we have the childhood moments with her, we grew up and she grew up with us, so we listen to her all the time," said one Swiftie before the show.

There was a lot of travel leading up to the show for Swifties. Between the concert, Friday night rush hour and a Janet Jackson concert in nearby Mansfield, traffic was crawling on the way down to Foxboro. But Swifties kept their cool, listening to Swift's music and trading friendship bracelets from car to car.

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"Honestly, not as bad as we thought it would be," one fan told WBZ TV. "I've been having stress dreams all week about being late, so this was really nice."  

Swift even made her presence felt at the Celtics game, as one young fan in the crowd held up as sign that read "I could have been at Taylor Swift concert!"

With two nights left, fans without tickets to the concert are being told not to come to Gillette because they won't be allowed inside to park and tailgate.

One added challenge for Saturday is rain is forecast for the evening. The full forecast can be found here.

Swift has two more shows – her twelfth and thirteenth – at Gillette on Saturday and Sunday. 

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