‘Insane’ sight at Taylor Swift’s latest stadium show

Even Taylor Swift was shocked by an “insane” sight in the crowd at her latest sold-out stop of the Eras Tour.

Here in Australia, Taylor Swift’s mammoth Eras tour is now just a distant memory – but as the superstar traverses the globe on her two-year world tour, other countries are now in the grip of Swift fever.

Swift is currently in Germany, where she performed two sold-out shows at Munich’s Olympiastadion over the weekend.

Extraordinary footage from inside the stadium shows that thousands of fans who missed out on tickets assembled at the high vantage point of a nearby park, in the hopes of hearing the show and catching a glimpse of the singer. .

German police estimates put the overflow crowd at some 40,000 people, on top of the 63,000-odd inside the stadium, making for an “insane” spectacle according to fans on social media.

Swift herself acknowledged the hilltop listening party on stage during her show, telling the crowd: “We have people in a park outside the stadium, thousands of people listening from out there!”

Here in Australia, fans who’d missed out on tickets were strongly advised against heading to the shows and waiting outside, as organisers tried to avoid crowding issues around the huge shows.

The crowd inside the stadium, and on the hill behind.

The hillside listening party grew to 40,000 people.

Swift is on the home stretch of her Eras tour, which is set to finish in Vancouver in December almost two years after it began.

She last month made a special announcement for the 100th show of the tour in Liverpool, UK.

Acknowledging the milestone, Swift said that having done 100 shows “blows my mind”.

“That doesn’t feel like a real statistic to me because this has definitely been the most exhausting, all-encompassing, but most joyful, most rewarding, most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life this forth. These moments with you,” she said.

The crowd at Taylor Swift's Munich show.

Swift’s Eras tour will end in December. Picture: Aldara Zarraoa/Getty

She told the audience that she would mark the occasion by publicly confirming for the first time that the tour would end in December. The final shows of the tour are currently scheduled to take place in Vancouver, Canada on December 6, 7, and 8.

It’s not yet known if Swift has any more final shows up her sleeve for that month to cap off the tour.

“The celebration of the 100th show for me means this is the very first time I’ve ever acknowledged to myself and admitted that this tour is going to end in December,” she said.

With 152 shows planned, by the time Eras finishes it will have been Swift’s longest tour, almost tripling the 53 shows of her last jaunt, 2018’s Reputation world tour.

And it hasn’t made a dint on her musical output: Since playing her first show in March last year, Swift’s released a new studio double album, The Tortured Poets Department, and two “Taylor’s version” rerecordings of her previous albums, Speak Now and 1989.

Originally published as ‘Insane’ sight at Taylor Swift’s latest stadium show