Cruel Summer ( Vienna's Version )

survived the great war

The first album from Taylor I listened to was RED.
I found the 22 cover from the Cimorelli Sisters. And I was in love. I listened to the
cover and so many other Taylor covers and I fell in love with it. When I got the RED CD it was crazy.
And I don't mean the fact that it was the time where you could also buy cassettes.
I listened to the CD over and over again.
I was 12 years old and dreamed about the time when I would turn 22. Singing in my room to 22 and We are never getting back together was my life at this time.
At the time when I found the music videos it was even crazier. Sitting in front of my laptop and singing and acting like Taylor in her music videos.
After RED it was Fearless. Seeing the You belong with me music video had me completely.
I don't know how long I listened to RED and Fearless before I got to 1989. Where of course the famous Shake it off. But also blank space and bad blood, I loved the little rebellious vibe, especially since I was in my pre-puberty era.
How Taylor hit the expensive car with a golf club had me totally.

I don't know what happened after 1989. I'm sure I listened to some Reputation songs but not so extreme like I did to RED and 1989.
In the covid lockdown I listened to some folklore but it didn't had me like her songs did before.

But at the time around spring 2023 Taylor's music totally blew my tiktok. I found the Midnight album and I was obsessed again. At the same time the Eras Tour started and I loved all the videos from the tour.
When I was younger, I never got the chance to see a concert. I was too young and the concerts were at least four hours away from my home and I also think it wouldn't be possible to go because of the long drive, even if my parents would have driven me or if I would have gone by train. Especially as a teenager without an adult.

But at 23 years old now, my opportunities are so much bigger. I thought that now would be the time for me to go to a concert from Taylor. Honestly I didn't think I would get a ticket because Taylor's career took off so fast and she got over the year so many more fans, that my chances would be so low to get one, even a presale code.
I watched the tiktoks from her shows while she toured around the USA and I loved all the videos about the outfits and the friendship bracelets.

The shows in the rain were an absolute dream.
When I saw the tiktok from the show in Nashville, I thought about it every day. I don't even know how often I watched Taylor and the dancers sing in the rain to 22 Taylor's Version. And my memories of me singing and dancing to 22 over ten years ago came back into my mind. When they all stood in a row and jumped from one to the other foot, while the rain from their shoes flew across the stage. I was in love and manifested a ticket even more.
I got a bit closer to my dream of a ticket, when Taylor announced on her Instagram that after the tour on the american continent that they had some international dates for the Eras Tour. I was so happy, but when I saw the times that you announced to play in Germany - I did't had time and was disappointed. But I saw that on the ninth of august she would play in Vienna. I was never in Vienna before and it would also be one day after my birthday, so why don't go there and make a trip to another country?
The plan became reality when a month after the announcement of the international dates, I got the chance to buy some tickets with a presale code.
When I signed up for the presale and knew that if I get a code, I will try it to buy a ticket. The days between the code and the start of ticket sales, was like a rollercoaster for my emotions. So many people shared their experience on buying the tickets and I was scared. They waited like hours to get through the queue.
On my day to buy a ticket, I called in sick and I was so nervous and excited.
At twelve o'clock I was sitting before my laptop with crossed fingers, when I got from the waiting room to the queue.
I waited for like 5 minutes and then after a little wait I clicked so fast on one ticket and added it to my shopping cart. I didn't check the position from the ticket, because it could cause me to lose my ticket.

Never have I bought something so fast in my life and definitely not while not knowing which view I would get.

But I got it!
When I received the mail from the concert organizer, my dream came true and I started crying out of pure joy.
It was crazy and I did't really think I would get a chance to buy a ticket and it took me at least a week to realize I got a ticket.

BUT I CAN'T CALM DOWN!
I'M GOING TO THE ERAS TOUR

But writing that now after the canellation of the Vienna shows is already 6 weeks ago. It's now a really hard hit to remember how much anticipation I had, which took a complete unreal turn in Vienna